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A lot of savants that are able to do really cool calculations, or even people that have synesthesia seeing numbers as colors, don't actually do "real" calculati
by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
A lot of savants that are able to do really cool calculations, or even people that have synesthesia seeing numbers as colors, don't actually do "real" calculations.
I think most humans that do math aren't actually literally computing things as some kind of logic machine.
We can produce logic, and follow the steps of using that logic, but it doesn't seem to me that our cognition is some kind of logic machine itself.
- daxfohl 1y agoTrue. Generally it seems like you're visualizing things, moving stuff around, seeing vague patterns and trying to make them more clear. IDK how a transformer architecture would fit all of that in its context, or use it productivity once it's there. You can't just keep appending forever, but you also can't delete stuff either, because unlike humans, a deletion is a hard delete; there's no fuzzy remembrance left to rely on, so even deleting bad ideas is dangerous because it'll forget that it was a bad idea and infinite loop. Symbols manipulation doesn't come until the end, after you have a good idea what that part will look like.
- jerf 1y agoI'm not sure if you think you're agreeing with me or not, but that is my point. Compared to the nominal account of computational power our brains have, we are staggeringly bad at logical manipulation. We extremely expensively and laboriously simulate them.