> cretins proclaiming that LLMs aren't truly capable of reasoning
> Reasoning is not difficult to define
> Reasoning exists on a spectrum
> statistical processes [can] scale into reasoning
It seems like quite a descent here, starting with the lofty heights of condemning skeptics as "cretins" and insisting the definition is easy... down to what sounds like the introduction to a flavor of panpsychism [0], where even water flowing downhill is a "statistical process" which at enough scale would be "reasoning".
I don't think that's a faithful match to what other people mean [1] when they argue LLMs don't "reason."
You think because reasoning exists on a spectrum, therefore everything is conscious? You sound a bit too desperate to try to prove me wrong. Also you edited your comment post hoc to add sources. Who cares?
> Reasoning is not difficult to define
> Reasoning exists on a spectrum
> statistical processes [can] scale into reasoning
It seems like quite a descent here, starting with the lofty heights of condemning skeptics as "cretins" and insisting the definition is easy... down to what sounds like the introduction to a flavor of panpsychism [0], where even water flowing downhill is a "statistical process" which at enough scale would be "reasoning".
I don't think that's a faithful match to what other people mean [1] when they argue LLMs don't "reason."
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy