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New comment by voooduuuuu in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

voooduuuuu — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:19:39 +0000

Ask an LLM to invent a new word and post it here. You will see that it simply combines words already in the training data.

New comment by voooduuuuu in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

voooduuuuu — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:16:56 +0000

Ask an LLM to invent a new word and post it here, I will be waiting. You will see that it simply combines words already in the training data.

New comment by voooduuuuu in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

voooduuuuu — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:07:16 +0000

I think you are conflating composition and prediction. LLMs don't compose higher abstractions from the "axioms, symbols and rules", they simply predict the next token, like a really large spinning wheel.