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I thought of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science and its relation to language, which i
by aschwtzr 3y ago
I thought of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science and its relation to language, which is discussed by Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation. Large Language Models are the efforts of mapmakers to encapsulate reality in a way that is ultimately futile.
- staunton 3y ago> Large Language Models are the efforts of mapmakers to encapsulate reality in a way that is ultimately futile. What's futile? Nobody is trying to "encapsulate all of reality". Trying to do that would be futile but succeeding would also be useless.
- aschwtzr 3y agoThat was poorly worded, what I meant is that some people in general seem to think of LLMs as proxies for reality or truth., and Musk himself says he wants to build "truthGPT" https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/17/23687440/elon-musk-truthgpt-ai-chatgpt https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/17/23687440/elon-musk-truthg... That's the part I think is futile, because reality and truth are vast and moving targets there's no way to build a functional map.