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by calf 4y ago
Not only the parallels between Einstein's and Chomsky's objections, but the "shut up and calculate" historical camp in quantum mechanics bears some resemblance to perhaps Norvig's arguments for statistical, neural n
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by calf 4y ago
Furthermore anyone who studied branch and bound in algorithms class ought to understand that a chess engine wins games but does not understand the game and cannot explain the game. That's partly what Chomsky meant by explainability; th
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by calf 4y ago
In your and my mind, yes. But a cursory look online shows a lot of people, laypeople and experts, evidently read the exact same paragraph and had all sorts of objections. In fact that seems to be the key paragraph being disputed by naysayer
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by calf 4y ago
I always point out that people (strangely) forget that brain cells are literally the OG neural network. But it is with that said that I find greater agreement with Chomsky's concerns.
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by calf 4y ago
Tangential to your actual concerns but I studied CS without any exposure to Searle or AI, so I've never had to think much about Chinese Room or Turing Test debates. Every time a discussion turns to those I am bemused by how argumentati
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by calf 4y ago
Then in other words I wish Chomsky's Op Ed to the public nipped off the low hanging fruit of unjustified, thoughtless nonsequiturs. There's value in that. The number of people who understand Chomsky's argument is not very man
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by calf 4y ago
I thought it was a helpful connection to make. It's not new, plenty of critics the past decade have written comparing new AI to totalitarianism. Chomsky et al was the first this year to do so in the context of ChatGPT amidst all the ar
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by calf 4y ago
Logic is just a different level of abstraction, and the current generation of AIs lack it. Think of it as trying to implement an algorithm in machine code versus writing it in C++ or Haskell. Neural networks are analogous to low-level machi
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by calf 4y ago
Science consists of theories, not just models. This newspeak definition that science is just models is a form of scientism. It's reductionism which is why Chomsky is against it, and to attempt to rebut essentially an accusation of redu
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by calf 4y ago
Chomsky and the authors are making an information/computational complexity argument there, which I tend to agree with. But naysayers have read the exact same passage and replied: a) AI don't have to resemble human intelligence at
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by calf 4y ago
The best part of the piece was the invocation of Hannah Arendt, "The Banality of Evil". Until now, no other writer or article saw it, it took a 94 year-old intellectual to see the forest for the trees. ... That said, I think the w
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by calf 4y ago
Oh yeah, your question immediately made me think of "black swan events", the economic parable about things we've never seen or even imagined, until one day someone sees/imagines it. So loosely speaking Einstein's Ge
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by calf 4y ago
I think what is interesting is even in the 1st sentence of Wolfram's essay, he acknowledges what ChatGPT is doing could merely be superficial. So we can't even tell if ChatGPT actually learned "language" in a superficial
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Old, popular video in Congress (?) hearing on the value vs. utility of science?
2 points by calf 4y ago|0 comments
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by calf 4y ago
It's a bit ambiguous to me in that Merck originally argued that molnupiravir would be less susceptible to resistance for Reason A, then now that the bad news is coming out, we have a plausible sounding explanation Reason B that it does
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by calf 4y ago
In college, SICP was the singular course that changed my mind about computing. Before, a math teacher tried to teach me C/C++ and I just didn't get why anyone would be interested in computer programs. SICP is more like how a mathe
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by calf 4y ago
The paper does describe one possible outcome of users eventually leaving a subreddit because of toxicity. But I guess you are raising a normative point as opposed to a merely descriptive one
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by calf 4y ago
Thank you!! And I think you were the OP, I recognize your username. Neat paper, thanks for sharing it previously.
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Ask HN: Research paper on users' active role in regulating reddit discourse?
2 points by calf 4y ago|5 comments
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by calf 4y ago
I try to make that frequency once per day
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by calf 4y ago
The author didn't do that. Literally in paragraph 3 he uses the word "I feel" multiple times.
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by calf 4y ago
If all these posts are just emotional venting maybe we should listen to them more carefully. Don't dismiss them or trivialize the issue/question as a matter of taste.
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by calf 4y ago
Ironically this is what I'm going through; as I read these comments, in the back of my head I'm darkly ruminating about my day.
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by calf 4y ago
This is weirdly confrontational, my therapist would not recommend writing an email to a professor who wronged me even on some abstract level. That's not how a psychologist counsellor would suggest confronting one's grief.
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by calf 4y ago
That sounds they were in the wrong department or wrong school. If they were that interested in QC their undergrad advisor should have told them to apply specifically to QC faculties who have research interests closer to their own.
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by calf 4y ago
Then will all respect I must disagree. I said that I am ethnically a Hong Konger. When China broke its UK treaty (effectively, a temporary neutralization treaty that granted autonomy to HK for a period of years), I also felt in my gut how h
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by calf 4y ago
I see this point a lot but I don't understand it. I'm of both Taiwanese and Hong Kong ethnicity. The world has already seen what China did to Hong Kong's autonomy. But Chomsky's essays and lectures have helped me underst
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by calf 4y ago
It's also a bad concept. Defensive alliance is a loaded term, but people use it in arguments as if it was a well defined mathematical object.
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by calf 4y ago
The parent folder is listed as Enclosing Folder in the Go menu, you can press Command-UpArrow. But there's a secret mouse trick, if you Command-Click any Finder window's or e.g. a Preview document's title bar, it will open a
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by calf 4y ago
Have you tried using it from another login account? Just a thought.

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