William Hahn
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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We install language into children between the ages of one and two and so on.
And without that, the
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It would be nearly impossible to have an episodic memory system without having a labeling system, right?
And so when I can say, oh, that nice dinner we had with yesterday with Jacob, I have a label, right?
And and with that label, you can reference this experience and we can say, Oh, that was an episode, and I remember that.
But how would you refer to it?
In the space of all possible mental states, without a language system, which is like the Dewey Decibel catalog, without having this card I can go, that's the one I mean, w what would there would be no meaning to that experience?
And so when we think about what is it like to be a bat, I think they might have a this fleeting ephemeral, you know, sensory loop that it would involve things like pain and and pleasure, but it can't represent those things.
It can't recall them.
It has no way of knowing that it went out and got fruit that morning.
Because how would it recall that mental state without a language
type thing.
Now, maybe we need to to do more research and know and and find out they do have a a language type system and they're tokenizing this this to the sonar and and things like that.
Um I don't know.
But it but it would seem to me that we should be skeptical that it's like anything to be those systems.
And I I take it a another extreme and say that it's you know, what is it like to be a human being?
And do we really know, or is it just this approximation?
that our language model can reference different episodes and and and different states and so on.
Because the example I like to give is
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