kevinventullo

Naturally I don’t expect to do such things for a living.

Who would make such a claim? LLM’s are of course incredible, but it seems obvious that their mechanism is quite different than the human brain.

I think the best you can say is that one could motivate lines of inquiry in human understanding, especially because we can essentially do brain surgery on an LLM in action in a way that we can’t with humans.

A waterfall that never seems to run dry. The ocean. Outer space. Time.

I think infinitude, i.e. a property of something which never ends, is a simplifying abstraction for the many things we come across in reality for which we can’t know where it ends or, in a specific context, we don’t care.

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When you need a dash of convincing b******t, they are excellent generators.

The point is that the efficiency of the private sector is a Faustian bargain: it comes at the cost of expecting an ROI for the investigators.

The problem is that industry is inherently narrowly focused in short-to-medium term profitability, and cannot be relied on to carry out work which benefits society as a whole, including many conventionally “intellectual” pursuits such as: educating the populace, or fundamental research with no clear path to monetization.

Yes, private schools do both of these things, but in both cases they are only doing so by means of public funding.

The fact is, we don’t want these people in academia at all. You want researchers who are naturally inclined not to fabricate data, not people who only play by the rules because they think they’re otherwise going to get caught.