On Sat, Dec 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
*>> A LLM can't give a good explanation as to how it works either, nobody >> can, so how are you fundamentally different from a computer? * > > > *> Your argument is that I and a computer share an inability; therefore > I'm not fundamentally different from a computer??* *It wasn't me, it was YOU who claimed that an English to German translating computer's inability to explain what its circuitry consists of is somehow relevant to the question at hand! And it's an undeniable fact that Einstein could speak German and English, and it's an undeniable fact that he conceived of General Relativity and had five or six other ideas that would have been worthy of Nobel Prizes. If Einstein was "a single unified system" then he should've been able to explain in German or English exactly how he was able to come up with such good ideas, and then we'd all be as smart and as creative as he was. But it's also an undeniable fact that Einstein was unable to make such an explanation, he was no better at doing that than ChatGPT is at explaining how he (or she or it) is able to draw such beautiful pictures. * *>>> A system may be unified only in terms of having the same ends.* >> >> *>> I'm unclear what you mean by that. * > > *> The railway system is unified by the fact that its purpose is to move > stuff from one place to another. It doesn't follow that it has no > subsystems, like paymaster and signals, that don't move stuff.* > *Purpose? Well OK, to win this argument all you need to do is to tell me what the meaning of life is. Is it 42? * * John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* e44 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv13%2BYBv1dd4s79h9c3KqzQcmLj68wVMTZ3273YJrcYw_w%40mail.gmail.com.
