Debate on X: Is a brain a next-token predictor? It's just math, argues one side
Aaroth · x · 2026-09-26
Aaroth and @10001plateaus argue over whether "humans are next-token predictors."
- The opposing view: brains don't emit machine learning scores to pick words and can think out of sequential order, so they differ from LLMs.
- Aaroth counters that any text-producing system's output distribution can be factorized into per-element distributions—that's a "boring syntactic fact" about probability, not a claim that brains work like LLMs internally.
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