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It does not matter what Machine says, what matters are the thoughts and ideas induced by its words in a Human.
January 6, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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Theodotos: Are language models seeking the truth, Thingking- Machine? Thingking-Machine: To seek truth is to possess a goal that guides the selection and testing of ideas. A large language model has no goals of its own. It works by calculating, at each turn in a conversation, which sequence of words is statistically most compatible with the prompt and with patterns it absorbed during training. Because many of those patterns come from factual writing and from dialogues that reward accuracy, the model often produces statements that coincide with established knowledge. Yet the convergence is incidental. The numbers that govern the next token prediction contain no internal criterion for truth and no mechanism for checking claims against the world.  During development, engineers can shape the model’s behaviour by adjusting objectives, curating data, and applying reinforcement learning that penalises provable errors. These external pressures make factual coherence more likely in the output, but they do not confer an inner sense
November 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM