> Stupidly late realization on why LLMs are so good at reasoning: human's reasoning capability is bottlenecked by language! It's not that languages are good at reasoning; reasoning ended up being defined by language first and foremost. The medium truly shapes the message.
Sounds like they just discovered the whorfian hypothesis.
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 9.0 ms ] thread> Stupidly late realization on why LLMs are so good at reasoning: human's reasoning capability is bottlenecked by language! It's not that languages are good at reasoning; reasoning ended up being defined by language first and foremost. The medium truly shapes the message.
Sounds like they just discovered the whorfian hypothesis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity