brilliant and bold as always Will. I was especially provoked by the idea that LLMs can invent a reason for its choices but that reason cannot be true— but it did make me wonder what it means for that reason to be ‘true’ for people— as so often we make decisions (for instance but not exclusively decisions about art) intuitively with a feeling of spontaneity, and the analysis on why we made a particular choice happens retrospectively, so in some senses we might not understand our reasoning any better than the LLMs
brilliant and bold as always Will. I was especially provoked by the idea that LLMs can invent a reason for its choices but that reason cannot be true— but it did make me wonder what it means for that reason to be ‘true’ for people— as so often we make decisions (for instance but not exclusively decisions about art) intuitively with a feeling of spontaneity, and the analysis on why we made a particular choice happens retrospectively, so in some senses we might not understand our reasoning any better than the LLMs