Semantic Differences Between RL and LLMs
Chris_Armstrong · x · 2026-07-11
This is a repost, primarily inviting a computational neuroscientist to discuss: why words like "hot," "fall," and "pain" don't mean the same thing in LLMs as they do in human experience.
The focus is on using this topic to explain reinforcement learning and how it operates in both biological and artificial neural networks.
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