Let’s say there’s a illiterate man that lives a simple life, and in doing so just happens to follow all the strictures of the law, without ever being able to explain what the law is. Would you say that this man understands the law?
Alternatively, let’s say there is a learned man that exhaustively studies the law, but only so he can bribe and steal and arson his way to as much crime as possible. Would you say that this man understands the law?
I would say that it is ambiguous whether the 1st man understands the law; maybe? kind of? you could make an argument I guess? it’s a bit of a weird way to put it innit? Whereas the 2nd man definitely understands the law. It sounds like you would say that the 1st man definitely understands the law (I’m not sure what you would say about the 2nd man), which might be where we have a difference.
I think you could say that LLMs don’t work that way, that the reader should intuitively know this and that the word “understanding” should be treated as being special in this context and should not be ambiguous at all; as I reader, I am saying I am confused by the choice of words, or at least this is not explained in enough detail ahead of time.
Obviously, I’m just one reader, maybe everyone else understood what you meant; grain of salt, and all that.
Let’s say there’s a illiterate man that lives a simple life, and in doing so just happens to follow all the strictures of the law, without ever being able to explain what the law is. Would you say that this man understands the law?
Alternatively, let’s say there is a learned man that exhaustively studies the law, but only so he can bribe and steal and arson his way to as much crime as possible. Would you say that this man understands the law?
I would say that it is ambiguous whether the 1st man understands the law; maybe? kind of? you could make an argument I guess? it’s a bit of a weird way to put it innit? Whereas the 2nd man definitely understands the law. It sounds like you would say that the 1st man definitely understands the law (I’m not sure what you would say about the 2nd man), which might be where we have a difference.
I think you could say that LLMs don’t work that way, that the reader should intuitively know this and that the word “understanding” should be treated as being special in this context and should not be ambiguous at all; as I reader, I am saying I am confused by the choice of words, or at least this is not explained in enough detail ahead of time.
Obviously, I’m just one reader, maybe everyone else understood what you meant; grain of salt, and all that.