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> I don’t think that’s how humans work. Every time this comes up I have to bring up Deutsch. He has the best description of intelligent cognition that I've com
by crabmusket 1y ago
> I don’t think that’s how humans work.
Every time this comes up I have to bring up Deutsch. He has the best description of intelligent cognition that I've come across. He takes Popper's "conjecture and criticism" approach to science and argues that this guess-and-check loop applies to all our thinking.
E.g. understanding spoken language has some elements of guessing what might have been said and checking that against the sounds we heard. Visual processing has similar analogies.
LLMs seem to be great at conjecturing stuff, but seem incapable of checking or even knowing they need to check.
- codethief 1y ago> Every time this comes up I have to bring up Deutsch. He has the best description of intelligent cognition that I've come across. Would you have a reference?
- crabmusket 1y agoIf you like books, read The Beginning of Infinity. If you don't, I can't help! I wish there were something I could point to online, but nothing really encapsulates the lessons I took from that book. Yes, I'll have to write that thing one day.
- codethief 1y agoThanks so much!