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0 pointsMeaster3mo ago0 comments

> It's as if someone asked you how many 1s there are in the binary representation of this text.

I'm actually kinda pleased with how close I guessed! I estimated 4 set bits per character, which with 491 characters in your post (including spaces) comes to 1964.

Then I ran your message through a program to get the actual number, and turns out it has 1800 exactly.

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sigmoid103mo ago

>I estimated 4 set bits per character, which with 491 characters in your post (including spaces) comes to 1964

And that's exactly the kind of reasoning an LLM does when you ask it about characters in a word. It doesn't come from the word, it comes from other heuristics it picked up during training.

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