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Charles Fain Leh... @CharlesFLeh... · 3h maxleiter.com/blog/weights [link card] They're Made Out of Weights with apologies to Terry Bisson After Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat". "They're made out of weights." "Weights?" "Weights. Floating-point numbers. We checked the whole thing through. It's nothing but weights." "Weights doing what? Where do the words come from?" "The weights make the words. Are you understanding me? We opened it up. There's no dictionary in there, no grammar rules, no little man. Just weights. Eighty layers of numbers getting multiplied together." "That's ridiculous. It wrote my performance review last week. It softened the tone unprompted. You're telling me multiplication did that?" "Matrix multiplication did that. The numbers go in one end, the phrasing comes out the other." "So there's a language module somewhere. A reasoning unit bolted on." "No module. No unit. We looked. The reasoning is the weights. The weights are the reasoning." "Spare me. Nobody writes a eulogy with linear algebra." [quoted post] jon3k @jon3k · 19h It's impossible to actually understand how an LLM works and genuinely believe it's conscious. It's a bunch of vectors and multiplication. That's literally it. ... [cut off]
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A tweet by Charles Fain Leh... linking maxleiter.com/blog/weights, a dialogue 'They're Made Out of Weights' (after Terry Bisson's 'They're Made Out of Meat') shown as a link card, quote-tweeting jon3k's claim that understanding LLMs rules out believing they are conscious. The card text is cut off after the last line shown.
llm consciousnessthey're made out of meatweightssatire dialoguemachine consciousness discourse