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The Symmetry Between Models and Data | The Isomorphism Between You and Your World.

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There was an interesting quote from Janus's article on simulators."GPT" is not the text which [it] writes itselfFurthermore, they write:There is a categorical distinction between a thing which evolves according to GPT's law and the law itself.I initially agreed with this. It's congruent with how I've understood LLMs—where GPT is not the characters described in its text, but the rules that give life to them. However, seeing it phrased like this gave me a second thought. What if it could be both s

There was an interesting quote from Janus's article on simulators. "GPT" is not the text which [it] writes itself Furthermore, they write: There is a categorical distinction between a thing which evolves according to GPT's law and the law itself. I initially agreed with this. It's congruent with how I've understood LLMs—where GPT is not the characters described in its text, but the rules that give life to them. However, seeing it phrased like this gave me a second thought. What if it could be both simultaneously? Let's talk about isomorphisms: cases where we can represent the same exact data i

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