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It always seems like that in the present but we can usually see more clearly how brilliant people in the past influenced things. There's too much noise in the n
by namaria 3y ago
It always seems like that in the present but we can usually see more clearly how brilliant people in the past influenced things. There's too much noise in the now. We hear all the voices and they average out to mediocre thinking and discourse. Only decades from now it will be clear who the geniuses among us are and what long lasting contributions they are making. The same way it always seems like current pop music is garbage, but the oldies are golden. We just forgot about the old garbage and kept listening to the good stuff.
- js8 3y agoThis problem is even more pronounced with LLMs. If we train them on lots of average text, how could they ever write something extraordinary, or even give useful advice? They don't reflect which training data are garbage, and they don't have any aspirations to excel.
- stevefan1999 3y agoRelated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean