What is the difference between reasoning and predicting what reasoning would look like?

phyzome an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The same as the difference between a thing and a statistical model of a thing.

They don't always match up.

	▲	mickdarling 23 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In theory, theory and practice should be the same; in practice, they are not.
	▲	programmarchy 39 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Human reasoning also does not match up with reality. Isn't it statistical modeling all the way down?

One has a human behind it and one has a matrix latent space. Usually human understanding is more "real"

Stallman vehemently states llms are bullshit generators with no true understanding.

But sometimes you can approximate your problem and unfold an llm interlocator to producing the strings you need for your task