Rebuttal: The essential difference between human and AI prediction is grounding
siglesias · x · 2026-09-02
The author refutes the idea that "humans are just prediction machines." While humans do predict the next token in certain contexts (e.g., inferring meaning from Japanese or using Spanish to understand French), humans possess base grounding—we are the labelers ourselves—which fundamentally distinguishes us from AI.
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