The point I’m making here is that in the terms of this post the LLM defines the transition function of a simulation.
I guess (as an ex-physicist and long-time software engineer) I’m not really hung up about the fact that emulations are normally performed one timestep at a time, and simulations certainly can be, so didn’t see much need to make a linguistic distinction for it. But that’s fine, I don’t disagree. Yes, an emulation or (in applicable cases) simulation process will consist of a sequence of many timesteps, and an LLM predicting text similarly does so one token at a time sequentially (which may not, in fact, be the order that humans produced them, or consume them, though by default usually is — something that LLMs often have trouble with, presumably due to their fixed forward-pass computational capacity).
(oh and FYI, Janus is “they”—in the sense of actually being two people: Kyle and Laria)
Suddenly their username makes sense! Thanks, duely noted.
I guess (as an ex-physicist and long-time software engineer) I’m not really hung up about the fact that emulations are normally performed one timestep at a time, and simulations certainly can be, so didn’t see much need to make a linguistic distinction for it. But that’s fine, I don’t disagree. Yes, an emulation or (in applicable cases) simulation process will consist of a sequence of many timesteps, and an LLM predicting text similarly does so one token at a time sequentially (which may not, in fact, be the order that humans produced them, or consume them, though by default usually is — something that LLMs often have trouble with, presumably due to their fixed forward-pass computational capacity).
Suddenly their username makes sense! Thanks, duely noted.