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In their recent Opinion in TiCS [1], Yildirim and Paul propose that large language models (LLMs) have ‘instrumental knowledge’ and possibly the kind of ‘worldly’ knowledge that humans do. They suggest that the production of appropriate outputs by LMMs is evidence that LLMs infer ‘task structure’ that may reflect ‘causal abstractions of… entities and processes in the real world’ [1]. While we agree that LLMs are impressive and potentially interesting for cognitive science, we resist this project on two grounds.

Introduction I would like to take the time in the very short space that I have to introduce the main themes of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s (1775-1854) last published work, the riveting and di...

The same movement that supports and celebrates a criminal, vulgarian insurrectionist who pardons his criminal friends now feigns outrage. Here's me playing the world's smallest violin.

Balaji Srinivasan's vision of Network States has influenced Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and the "New Right" movement. However, he fails to grasp that networks are more a worldview than a technolog...