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I don't disagree that our culture gives us a lot. To use ML terms -- Humans have "Foundation Models" which are composed of: - Their Biological makeup - The cul
by marviel 4y ago
I don't disagree that our culture gives us a lot.
To use ML terms -- Humans have "Foundation Models" which are composed of:
- Their Biological makeup
- The culture into which they are raised
- serverholic 4y agoI'm not even talking about culture. DNA is only useful because the laws of physical reality are built a certain way. Without that context the information within DNA is meaningless.
- marviel 4y agoWell sure but couldn't the same thing be said about a computer program?
- serverholic 4y agoA good analogy is perhaps a config file for a computer program. My interpretation is that Carmack is essentially confusing a config file for the computer program itself, then saying "look how small it is, this shouldn't be that hard to reverse engineer".