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This is great! More experiments are key. I know, I know, many of you are getting flashbacks to physics lab, but come on, it's totally different when you're comi
by williamcotton 4y ago
This is great! More experiments are key. I know, I know, many of you are getting flashbacks to physics lab, but come on, it's totally different when you're coming up with the experiments yourself! :D
As for some philosophical inspiration, the analytic philosophers like Kant, Frege, Russel and early Wittgenstein have methods for breaking down natural language into (possibly) useful elements!
Like, everyone speaks of "context" in terms of these prompts... how similar is that to Frege's context principle?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_principle
Some other Wikipedia links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_turn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_turn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_language#Meaning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_language#Meaning
- williamcotton 4y agoIn Frege's The Foundations of Arithmetic he disagrees with Kant that a proposition like "2 + 12 = 14" is synthetic (and Kant used large numbers as an example of how analysis would fail!!!). However, once we have a large language model we can experimentally show that math computations are indeed synthetic. Kant was right!
- hiAndrewQuinn 4y agoI actually did read through your "Prompt Alchemy to Engineering" link and the reference to Frege took me very off guard. Then I thought about it a little more and decided mathematical platonism felt even more fitting to me now.
- williamcotton 4y agoI would love to hear some more of your thoughts, please expand on what you mean!