Philologists have reasoned from fragmentary evidence for 200 years. LLMs still confabulate when context is missing.
Of everything Thales supposedly wrote, not one authenticated word survives. Anaximander wrote the first prose treatise in the Greek tradition. Today it exists as roughly one sentence, preserved only because Aristotle quoted it and Simplicius, almost a thousand years later, copied that quotation. He…
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- 2026-10-28 09:12 · r/artificial
Philologists have reasoned from fragmentary evidence for 200 years. LLMs still confabulate when context is missing.