Stop treating Platonic representation hypothesis as fact
jiaxinwen22 · x · 2026-08-19
The author criticizes the tendency to treat the Platonic representation hypothesis as established fact merely based on observations of high cosine similarity and CKA in high-dimensional embedding spaces, urging caution in interpreting these correlations as definitive theoretical proof.
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