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In my country we say: he who robs a thief has a hundred years of pardon.

I think this is a good and pragmatic way to approach the use of LLM systems. By translating to an intermediate language, and then processing further symbolically. But probably you can be prompt injected also if you expose sensible "tools" to the LLM.



It's an interesting analogy. But one difference between dishwashers and LLMs is that you don't need to check the dishes afterward (if you maintain and use it properly).


Yeah but to continue the analogy, the washer was JUST invented and your clothes will come out ruined for a while.


Oh man, remember how much bigger a deal it was that you had to separate your clothes into the exact right categories and run the machine with different kinds of loads? Modern detergent, it's basically all machine wash cold, with far fewer exceptions compared to 30 years ago.


I don't think it's just the detergent. Modern clothes are made of shitty, synthetic fabrics. This is also why most people don't have to iron anything anymore. The tradeoff is microplastics[1], comfort/breathability, and durability.

Classic example is jeans. Modern jeans are ridiculously stretchy compared to "real" cotton denim because they contain tons synthetic fibers. However I run through jeans at an alarming pace - even compared to when I was a kid. They wear quickly, tear easily, and generally don't last.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/laundry-is-a-top-source...


im not sure how youre getting around the physics of white lint on dark clothing. and i separate plastic clothing from cotton or wool clothing because cotton usually just gets machine dried but i dont want to put my wool or plastic clothing through that process because its not necessary.


Why are you putting your clothes in the dishwasher


Oh crap, maybe that's why they are coming out ruined.


True, but reaching intelligence is more complicated than cleaning some spoons.


Interesting approach, but I guess still lot of work to be done. I tried with this question:

"Alice has 60 brothers and she also has 212 sisters. How many sisters does Alice's brother have?"

But the generated program is not very useful:

{ "sorts": [], "functions": [], "constants": {}, "variables": [ {"name": "num_brothers_of_alice", "sort": "IntSort"}, {"name": "num_sisters_of_alice", "sort": "IntSort"}, {"name": "sisters_of_alice_brother", "sort": "IntSort"} ], "knowledge_base": [ "num_brothers_of_alice == 60", "num_sisters_of_alice == 212", "sisters_of_alice_brother == num_sisters_of_alice + 1" ], "rules": [], "verifications": [ { "name": "Alice\'s brother has 213 sisters", "constraint": "sisters_of_alice_brother == 213" } ], "actions": ["verify_conditions"] }


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