Yes, agreed fully on the overall picture of models versus the reality we
understand is out there.
On convexity, I guess I would put this into the category of error (Bhuddist)
but not sin (Christian). The convex models are the simplest category.
Everything else that isn’t convex occupies a big
Being completely ignorant of everything mentioned, here, I can't help but wonder
whether there is a path from not-even-wrong to schema-for-the-data. Going back to
EricS' prior comment regarding when a (time/speed) difference of scale becomes a
difference of kind, I have trouble accepting the co
Stephen, thank you for these,
Continuous your paragraphs at the bottom, there is a project I have wanted to
pursue off and on for 25 years, and which gets cheaper each year. I probably
described it before on the list (maybe more than once), in which case apologies
for the repeat.
The neoclass
Thanks, Roger.
I put a copy of Shalizi and Farrell's paper for discussion here:
https://redfish.com/papers/temp20230624/shaliziFarrell_AI_Economist.pdf
(As this is a not a public email list, I think it's fair use to post a link
to the article for discussion. I will delete the file tomorrow so
I didn’t pay to read the economist, but the summary of the article given in the
twitter thread is one I like.
Meaning: the framework of reasoning they use seems insightful and of the right
kind to me. We had a version of it earlier in the Ted Chiang article linked
from the Cory Doctorow articl
Sooo a derpy animal, meets a literal eldritch nightmare creature. Now does
this encounter include both speakable, and unspeakable PTSD inducing
nightmares? or did the derps mind just turn into something about the
consistency of jello?
On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 2:56 PM Roger Critchlow wrote:
> I w
I was trawling through my saved bookmarks looking for insights into
Prigozhin's mutiny, when I stumbled to http://bactra.org/weblog/ and found
that Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi have just published an essay in The
Economist,
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/06/21/artificial-intelligen
