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> And importantly don’t know when they need to use it

patently false, but hey at least you’re able to see the parallel between you with a scratch pad and an LLM with a python terminal



Sure, lets test that:

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_69c420f3118081919cf525123e39598c

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_69c4215daeb481919fdaf22498fb0c4f

Do you have a different definition of false? I'm referring to their reasoning context as their scratch pad if that wasn't clear.


The context is the scratch pad. LLMs have perfect recall (ignoring "lost in the middle") across the entire context, unlike humans. LLMs "think on paper."




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