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I recommend that you continue. It's a very short and highly influential piece by a guy at the top of his field, you'll take a thing or two from the one-minute r

• bbor 3y ago
  Why thanks for the suggestion, that’s very kind. I just read it - in fact I think I read this early on in my research on scruffies v neats. My takeaway now is the same, sadly. It’s not so much that I disagree with his premises that I find his whole attitude and conclusion to be a preposterous artifact of ego inflation after helping found a line of research that was much more productive than people thought it would be. I get it, that’s very exciting, but I need way more evidence than that to completely abandon self-conscious structured reasoning in my conception of a good AGI, much less the human mind. Like this: This is a big lesson. As a field, we still have not thoroughly learned it, as we are continuing to make the same kind of mistakes. This is just arrogance. You don’t see this among philosophers or social scientists, who recognize that rhetoric is more than the cherry on top of science, and that this sort of confidence is dangerous. To see “designing things by hand” as a categorical “mistake” is just… that’s a hot take. But either way we’re all on the same side. Despite my harsh words I’m glad he helped pave the way LLMs, which are the biggest unexpected breakthrough in our lifetimes IMO. Which understandably makes people confident