Comment by fc417fc802

How do LLM advancements further such a view? Couldn't you have argued the same thing prior to LLMs? That evolution is a greedy optimizer etc etc therefore humans don't perform symbolic reasoning. But that's merely a hypothesis - there's zero evidence one way or the other - and it doesn't seem to me that the developments surrounding LLMs change that with respect to either LLMs or humans. (Or do they? Have I missed something?)

Even if we were to obtain evidence clearly demonstrating that LLMs don't reason symbolically, why should we interpret that as an indication of what humans do? Certainly it would be highly suggestive, but "hey we've demonstrated that thing can be done this way" doesn't necessarily mean that thing _is_ being done that way.