Elan Barenholtz
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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When you get down to it, in the end, what you've got is just next token.
What you've got is just language generating language.
That's really what language is.
That's what we're doing when we're doing thinking linguistically.
And the fact that it happens to have this meaning is not actually.
actually driving the computation, right?
You shape the space.
The space gets shaped by other factors, uh things like uh the learning.
Well you learn about the different tokens and how they f how they relate to one another.
Um you learn about perhaps uh you uh the the uh meaning the y utility uh of certain tokens to refer and and to map to that uh these
perceptual phenomena.
But by the time you're doing language generation, it's the shape is the space has been shaped.
And so all you're doing is next token generation.
All you're doing is tokens predicting tokens.
And so I don't want to back away from that.
It's a it's the the strong claim is that language simply is that.
And is is autonomous.
It has these properties.
Um
through all this optimization over the course of development, maybe evolution, I haven't I I I it's not part of my theory at this point.
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