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Cake day: June 5th, 2024
  • You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

    I agree that LLMs do not understand what it is they are predicting. At least no more than any other computer program “understands” its output. Which is to say: they are not conscious beings experiencing things.

    This doesn’t mean LLM output is random. It means they aren’t thinking persons. You may have confused random with non-deterministic. LLMs are complex guessing machines that require a fudge-factor to produce meaningfully useful output. If the guesses were fully random then they’d have a significantly narrower field of practical applications.

  • The relaxed position of mammalian eyelids leaves them open. Muscles must contract for the eyes to be shut. Dead creatures cannot contract their muscles so their eyes remain open after they die.

    You cannot shut their eyes for them by closing their eyes with your hand. Morticians place contacts in cadaver’s eyes while preparing the body for a wake. Those contacts grip the inside of the eyelids so that they remain closed.

    This is why some cultures have funerary traditions in which objects are placed over the eyes.

    TL;DR: you and your loved ones won’t close their eyes when they die.