I heard from a number of Syrian refugees that this is actually very common in countries like theirs, where births may not be recorded, records are lost or destroyed. Some people don't even know their exact date of birth and they would typically enter January 1st on forms like this too.
Dang, I didnt realize it was a HN thread that got me into this rabbit hole yesterday. I shouldn't have posted a second thread so soon after that first one.
You can't think of a sentence and type it later without actively remembering it. You either forgot the sentence by then or you're able to recall it - just typing from memory without actively remembering is just not a thing that is possible. Muscle memory isn't built from thinking one time about what you'd do.
You can buy rice, beans and soy granulate in bulk and cook a chili in an hour that feeds a family for two days for the price of like a happy meal at McDonalds.
>I have a linguistics background and a lot of my philosophizing lately has been on whether or not the emergent abilities of the LLMs is deep down a similar mechanism that creates our consciousness.
Then you shouldn't have dropped out of your linguistics programme.
Everybody who has a different moral opinion than yours holds that opinion for the sole reason that they believe it will make them look better to their peers.
I have no idea about research in mathematics: How will mathematicians judge what constitutes new conceptual math that is actually useful, vs a hallucination that might be novel but doesn't introduce anything actual meaningful?