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The Guppy Effect as Interference — mentioned by Xmd5a

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:37:09 GMT

Related: From Tokens to Thoughts: How LLMs and Humans Trade Compression for Meaning – https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17117 (Lecun/Jurafsky) > Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate striking linguistic capabilities that suggest semantic understanding (Singh et al., 2024; Li et al., 2024). Yet, a critical question remains unanswered: Do 1arXiv:2505.17117v5 [cs.CL] 25 Sep 2025LLMs navigate the compression-meaning trade-off similarly to humans, or do they employ fundamentally different representational strategies? This question matters because true understanding, which goes beyond surface-level…

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The Guppy Effect as Interference — mentioned by Xmd5a

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:45:45 GMT

I don't think this cursory look at the abstracts and first pages of these papers is achieving the effect you intended. The first quote summarize the findings (page 4) of Tversky & Shafir, 1992. Google indicates this paper has 978 citations. >is STONE LION a STONE This is called a typicality test. Jurafsky, Lecun & two more fellows dropped this paper recently: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17117 (emphasis mine) >This work aims to bridge this gap by integrating cognitive psychology, information theory, and modern NLP. We pose three central research questions to guide our investigation: [RQ1]: To…

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