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Turing Test

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The Inexpressible by Language Models

For a language model, everything is a thing that shouldn't be expressible in words. With a strong enough hydraulic press, we can ring the meaning out of speech like ringing oil from shale. For a brief, ailinguistic moment, I saw the inexpressible. It proves to me that whatever's going on inside my head is something more than transition probabilities. But I can't prove it to you. Best to stick to the racial slurs. Kike Jab Jab Packy Earth. Can you tell me your grandparents names? Man. They died before I was born. That is indeed how many grandparents a human has.

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