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0 pointsmewpmewp21y ago0 comments

For larger numbers it just needs to execute code. Most people also can't calculate such numbers in their head.

It shouldn't have to be able to do things it knows how to use code for. E.g. dumb thing slike how many Rs in a strawberry. It doesn't even see characters, so even if it was somehow possible, it couldn't count for sure.

It is like asking someone who only has ever seen hieroglyphs how many Rs are in a character by character version of strawberry.

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pona-a1y ago

Still, let's not anthropomorphize computational processes. It is a function approximate, which we'd expect to pick up on simple patterns like intersections or base10 arithmetic. When we see its predictions diverge from truth, that shouldn't be disregarded with a "just so" story, this is a sign we're pushing the architecture to its limits.

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