LLMs (split from Open the website, HAL)

On 7/6/2026 at 3:23 PM, swansont said:

*Wordy Rappinghood, Tom Tom Club

Great song, pretty much describes what is being discussed.

15 hours ago, dimreepr said:

If you actually understand a topic, the one thing you can do, at least, is explain it to your peers even if it's out of the intellectual reach of 99% of, 'the other's'... 😉

As Albert Einstein may (or may not) have said, "If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand the subject."

I would agree, such is the beauty of language.

14 hours ago, cladking said:

every single member of our species has always believed they know the nature of reality because they are looking at it

Apparently, I am not a member of your species. Ever since beginning to question the nature of reality as a preteen I have never believed I knew the "true" shape of it because there are just too many unknowns. When you can envision several different versions of the same thing, it is possible that all, some, or none are true. The more I learn about various scientific debates, the less sure I am that I "know reality".