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> Obviously the LLM doesn't have "senses" in the human way, and it doesn't "see" words

> A different analogy could be, imagine a being that had a sense that you "see" magnetic lines, and they showed you an object and asked you

If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bicycle.

At some point to hold the analogy, your mind must perform so many contortions that it defeats the purpose of the analogy itself.

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> If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bicycle.

That's irrelevant here, that was someone trying to convert one dish into another dish.

> your mind must perform so many contortions that it defeats the purpose

I disagree, what contortions? The only argument you've provided is that "LLMs don't have senses". Well yes, that's the whole point of an analogy. I still hold that the way LLMs interpret tokens is analogous to a "sense".

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