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  1. Mark's avatar

    I just want to address this comment: > What initially presents itself as impressive intelligence can, upon closer inspection by…

  2. sahpa's avatar

    Hi Dan, Actually, no, that the engine is next-token prediction does not entail that “there is only so much recycling,…

  3. Mark's avatar

    I’m a mathematician who works on AI research, though not specifically on training LLMs. Basically, we really don’t know what’s…

  4. Luis Marxuach's avatar

    My experience with LLMs as a layperson/non-philosopher is that the aforesaid are excellent as spell checkers and translators (and, at…

  5. 永江 守's avatar

    I think we need to separate several different issues here: the future of the university, the future of education, the…

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  7. David Wallace's avatar

    Unless we accept dualism, ultimately any creative process comes down to high-level emergent consequences of a very complex system whose…

L. Mollica did not like Professor Stock’s essay…

or my mentioning it.  (L. Mollica is identified at the site as a trans woman.)  The intellectual level of their response speaks for itself. 

(And don't worry, L. Mollica, calling someone a "bully," is not defamatory as I've explained before:   " in our era of cyber-cry-babies, the label 'bullying' is so widely abused (for reasons usefully elucidated here) that it increasingly looks like an opinion…not a shorthand for a factual statement about conduct." In this case, it's not even an opinion, but more like a non-cognitive term expressing something like, "Brian Leiter says things I don't like, and does it all the time, and he doesn't understand he's not supposed to say those things and I'm so mad about it" etc..)

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