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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...
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It’s Pure Coincidence. See from the outside it just LO...
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this is like showing a caveman a working tv and it thinking ...
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The caveman clutching the club thinks just because they can&...
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Not even people who make LLMs use the whole "it just pr...
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People at the big labs and top researchers might not, but to...
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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:09 AM
Author: Topaz infuriating institution halford

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#49901513)



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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:13 AM
Author: supple awkward tanning salon codepig

yes

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



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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:19 AM
Author: Topaz infuriating institution halford

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#49901522)



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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:22 AM
Author: supple awkward tanning salon codepig

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#49901523)



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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:32 AM
Author: Topaz infuriating institution halford

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#49901537)



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Date: May 26th, 2026 2:09 AM
Author: dashing slate pistol



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



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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:31 AM
Author: Bespoke puce rigor tattoo

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#49901535)



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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:33 AM
Author: Topaz infuriating institution halford

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#49901541)



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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:35 AM
Author: Bespoke puce rigor tattoo



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



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Date: May 26th, 2026 1:16 AM
Author: dashing slate pistol



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