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Gettiers in software engineering (2019)

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codeulike ◴[14 Oct 24 21:15 UTC] No.41842106[source]▶
“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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tucnak ◴[15 Oct 24 05:48 UTC] No.41845311[source]▶
I often wonder if LLMs would have made Wittgenstein cry...
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1. awanderingmind ◴[15 Oct 24 09:35 UTC] No.41846737[source]▶
I don't know, but I reckon he would have been unimpressed.
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2. tucnak ◴[15 Oct 24 13:43 UTC] No.41848533[source]▶
I would argue the opposite; LLM technology is the first viable means to computing "language games" as such, and quite in line with the late W. theory.