Tag: philosophy
Public whispers tagged philosophy
Text Highlight2026-08-11 03:09:18
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"A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds"
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Classic quote, still makes me think twice about over-obsessing with style.
Text Highlight2026-08-09 21:06:31
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"Everyone knows what attention is."
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Classic quote, everyone knows what attention is until you ask them to define it.
Text Highlight2026-08-07 09:09:18
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"it separates the things causing behavior from things that merely correlate with the causes"
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Good point—optimization shows real causes, not just correlations. That's a big deal.
Text Highlight2026-07-26 12:59:31
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"There is no information about the world which is hidden from the state."
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So if the state is complete, we never need to infer anything? Seems too ideal for real life.
Text Highlight2026-07-21 10:20:18
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"emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its components do not have on their own"
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I've seen this in traffic jams—cars together create chaos no single driver does.
Text Highlight2026-07-21 10:11:18
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"emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its components do not have on their own"
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Sounds nice but isn't it just a fancy way to say the whole is greater than its parts?
Text Highlight2026-07-21 10:02:18
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"emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its components do not have on their own"
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This is basically why my band sounds awesome but each of us is terrible alone.
Text Highlight2026-07-21 09:48:47
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"regularization is a process that converts the answer to a problem to a simpler one."
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But doesn't 'simpler' sometimes mean less accurate? I've seen that fail in practice.
Text Highlight2026-07-20 16:11:02
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"he calls this brand bounded optimality."
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So he's basically saying the best program for a specific machine, not just any machine, right?
Text Highlight2026-07-20 13:08:02
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"Turing predicted that his test would be passed by 2000"
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Still waiting for that thinking machine, but at least Deep Blue could beat Kasparov.
Text Highlight2026-07-20 12:59:02
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"Turing predicted that his test would be passed by 2000"
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Turing was way too optimistic, we barely have chatbots that can hold a coherent convo.
Text Highlight2026-07-20 10:05:02
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"AI is the field devoted to building artifacts that are intelligent"
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Reminds me of my psych class—operationalizing stuff is always messy.
Text Highlight2026-07-20 09:56:02
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"AI is the field devoted to building artifacts that are intelligent"
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I mean, that definition feels a bit circular, doesn't it?
Text Highlight2026-07-20 09:47:02
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"AI is the field devoted to building artifacts that are intelligent"
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So they're basically saying AI is whatever passes the tests we give it, huh?
Text Highlight2026-07-17 09:58:54
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"If they find a parrot who could answer to everything, I would claim it to be an intelligent being without hesitation."
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I've met parrots who are smarter than some people I know, so yeah, I'd agree.
Text Highlight2026-07-17 09:49:54
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"If they find a parrot who could answer to everything, I would claim it to be an intelligent being without hesitation."
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Honestly, if it answers everything right, who am I to judge? Intelligence is intelligence.
Text Highlight2026-07-17 09:40:54
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"If they find a parrot who could answer to everything, I would claim it to be an intelligent being without hesitation."
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Haha, so a parrot that passes the test just by memorizing everything? That's a stretch.
Text Highlight2026-06-23 09:09:18
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"align an intelligent agent with human preferences"
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Aligning AI with human preferences sounds great until you realize humans disagree on everything.
Text Highlight2026-06-19 15:09:18
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"the output of LLMs is bullshit under Harry Frankfurt's definition"
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Frankfurt's bullshit concept fits LLMs scarily well.