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Title is a bit clickbaitish, but the content is well worth reading - came in with my pitchfork ready and left agreeing with basically all of it, with questions like ‘what if the probe could return 3 dimensions: truthfulness, knowledge confidence and decidability?’

Also the observation that people treat LLMs like oracles when they’re everything but is spot on, something I’ve also been thinking about and it’s quite a bit scary.



> what if the probe could return 3 dimensions: truthfulness, knowledge confidence and decidability?

can't be done because the other two dimensions depend on the first. or in other words it's all the same dimension only with a different name.


'I know this is true' is different than 'This is true' is different than 'It is impossible to say if it's true or false' is different than 'I've no idea', right?


no, and that's the point. hard to wrap your mind about this bit, yes.


from a practical point of view the point doesn't have any value, assuming it's even true; it'll take some convincing


I'd say it's equivalent to holding that any one worldview has no value in itself. Which is strictly true, but also conveys zero information.




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