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concept:performative-sentencesperformative sentences
Utterances that themselves perform the act they describe, central to speech act theory.
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- Performativesrelated_to
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- Internal actions like commitments not necessarily expressed in output, but on whose fulfillment correctness depends.
- The idea that spatial moves are not static arrangements but live, enacted gestures.
- Central concept: verbalized reasoning that occurs after the model has already internally settled on an answer, particularly on easier tasks.
- Internal commitment to make a sentence true; correctness requires fulfillment; example of abstract performative not necessarily externally expressed.
- Definition of abstract performative, a core invention of the paper.
- Open problem on the expressiveness of commitment sentences.
- We hope that programs using performatives will be easier to write, understand, debug, modify and (above all) verify.hypothesis0.714Hope expressed about the benefits of Elephant-style programs.
- Novel task asking which of 10 sentences received injection, cycling injection through all positions to average out positional bias