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tines | 24 days ago

Exactly. No matter how well you simulate water, nothing will ever get wet.

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empyrrhicist|23 days ago

You're replying to me, but I don't agree with your take - if you simulate the universe precisely enough, presumably it must be indistinguishable from our experienced reality (otherwise what... magic?).

My objection was:

1. I don't personally think anything similar is happening right now with LLMs. 2. I object to the OP's implication that it is obvious such a phenomenon is occurring.

pixl97|24 days ago

And if you were in a simulation now?

Your response is at the level of a thought terminating cliche. You gain no insight on the operation of the machine with your line of thought. You can't make future predictions on behavior. You can't make sense of past responses.

It's even funnier in the sense of humans and feeling wetness... you don't. You only feel temperature change.