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And there are already priests of this metascale n-dimensional matrix cult. Their preachers are full of mathy words and sound very convincing to laymen.
by akomtu 3y ago
And there are already priests of this metascale n-dimensional matrix cult. Their preachers are full of mathy words and sound very convincing to laymen.
- K0balt 3y agoIt’s not really complicated or mathy at all. If you want to understand how something really complex like an arbitrarily detailed simulation of the world, for example, can exist solely in data, just imagine an arbitrarily large and detailed 3d choose your own adventure book. And of course a huge body of human intellectual product is going to imbed a lot more than just the words themselves. To think otherwise is to imagine that there is no meaning in language except the words themselves. Insofar as reasoning can be accomplished in language, or ideas represented, they are encoded in the arrangement and sequence of the words. LLMs merely allow us to access this imbedded information in a convenient conversational format. No hand wavey magic needed.