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AI totally didn’t “solve” that math problem that broke a genius’s intuit

And showed that two subjects humans thought weren’t re...
Charcoal national philosopher-king
  05/26/26
yes
Racy foreskin
  05/26/26
It’s Pure Coincidence. See from the outside it just LO...
Charcoal national philosopher-king
  05/26/26
this is like showing a caveman a working tv and it thinking ...
Racy foreskin
  05/26/26
The caveman clutching the club thinks just because they can&...
Charcoal national philosopher-king
  05/26/26
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stimulating school gaping
  05/26/26
Not even people who make LLMs use the whole "it just pr...
Painfully honest domesticated property weed whacker
  05/26/26
People at the big labs and top researchers might not, but to...
Charcoal national philosopher-king
  05/26/26
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Painfully honest domesticated property weed whacker
  05/26/26
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stimulating school gaping
  05/26/26


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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:09 AM
Author: Charcoal national philosopher-king

And showed that two subjects humans thought weren’t related are actually just different languages for describing the same thing. See actually what happened was the machine jusf statistically predicted the next token in a way that happened to be correct. It totally has no “understanding” of the math.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869116&forum_id=2/en-en/#49901513)



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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:13 AM
Author: Racy foreskin

yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869116&forum_id=2/en-en/#49901516)



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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:19 AM
Author: Charcoal national philosopher-king

It’s Pure Coincidence. See from the outside it just LOOKS like the machine converged on a genius answer but actually it was just a freak statistical accident. If you multiply probabilities across infinite time monkeys on a typewriter could probably do the same.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869116&forum_id=2/en-en/#49901522)



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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:22 AM
Author: Racy foreskin

this is like showing a caveman a working tv and it thinking the tv is a real person or time traveller or some shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869116&forum_id=2/en-en/#49901523)



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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:32 AM
Author: Charcoal national philosopher-king

The caveman clutching the club thinks just because they can’t see the “person” inside the machine that it had to have come from statistical magic. The reality is that if “predicting the next token" results in a counterexample to an 80 year old conjecture that contradicts the intuition of Paul Erdos, then "token prediction" is functionally indistinguishable from "reasoning."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869116&forum_id=2/en-en/#49901537)



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Date: May 26th, 2026 2:09 AM
Author: stimulating school gaping



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869116&forum_id=2/en-en/#49901569)



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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:31 AM
Author: Painfully honest domesticated property weed whacker

Not even people who make LLMs use the whole "it just predicts the next word" thing anymore

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869116&forum_id=2/en-en/#49901535)



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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:33 AM
Author: Charcoal national philosopher-king

People at the big labs and top researchers might not, but tons of software engineers and Reddit midwits still do. It isn’t even totally wrong at a certain level of description anyway just reductive in a way that strips away almost everything actually important

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869116&forum_id=2/en-en/#49901541)



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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:35 AM
Author: Painfully honest domesticated property weed whacker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869116&forum_id=2/en-en/#49901545)



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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:16 AM
Author: stimulating school gaping



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5869116&forum_id=2/en-en/#49901521)