| ▲ | ACCount37 8 hours ago | |
Is it an actual counterargument? The "platonic representation" argument is "different models converge on similar representations because they are exposed to the same reality", and "how humans represent things" is a significant part of reality they're exposed to. | ||
| ▲ | convolvatron 5 hours ago | parent [-] | |
you're right, its just that 'platonic' is an argument that numbers exist in the universe as objects in and of themselves, completely independent of human reality. if we don't assume this, that numbers are a system that humans created (formalism), then sure, we can be happy that llms are picking common representations that map well into our subjective notions of what numbers are. | ||