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>Note that there isn’t the slightest attempt to explain the planet trajectories (specifically, why the planets keep ending up where they do regardless of how ma
by adtac 1y ago
>Note that there isn’t the slightest attempt to explain the planet trajectories (specifically, why the planets keep ending up where they do regardless of how many epicycles you bolt on) from a theoretical perspective. My impression is that they have absolutely no idea why the heavens behave the way they do; all they can do is stare at the night sky, record, and see what happens. That is not reassuring to me at least.
- AstronomerNews user, circa 1650 (probably)
- aprilthird2021 1y agoYou know, we don't make and sell the planets right? Usually when you make and sell something you understand how it works or endeavor to
- adtac 1y ago> or endeavor to you picked the worst example company to complain about how they're are not trying lol. just in 2025 from anthropic: Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/methods.html https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/met... On the Biology of a Large Language Model https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/biology.html https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/bio... Progress on Attention https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attention-update/index.html https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attention-update/index... A Toy Model of Interference Weights https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/interference-weights/index.html https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/interference-weights/i... Open-sourcing circuit tracing tools https://www.anthropic.com/research/open-source-circuit-tracing https://www.anthropic.com/research/open-source-circuit-traci...
- rolisz 1y agoI think people have been selling things that they don't know how they work for a long time. Think herbalists selling medicinal plants, I'm pretty sure Romans didn't know how or why concrete works, but they still used it.
- baxtr 1y agoYeah, right. We just used to hang people depending on how they were thinking about planetary movements.
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