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D-Machine 3 hours ago

Completely relevant, because LLMs only "somewhat model" humans' "somewhat modeling" of the world...

famouswaffles 2 hours ago | parent [-]

LLMs aren't modeling "humans modeling the world" - they're modeling patterns in data that reflect the world directly. When an LLM learns physics from textbooks, scientific papers, and code, it's learning the same compressed representations of reality that humans use, not a "model of a model."

Your argument would suggest that because you learned about quantum mechanics through language (textbooks, lectures), you only have access to "humans' modeling of humans' modeling of quantum mechanics" - an infinite regress that's clearly absurd.