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I’d just like to add one last point regarding what I’ve been calling, with no technical pretense, the AI/LLM hazard…
I agree fully with this argument. And then I would add, the exponential growth in AI capabilities means that the…
Liked the interpretationist stance that individual LLM instances have beliefs and desires, essentially because otherwise it is hard to explain…
Well now we know you CANT find arbitrarily close approximations in all cases because there is no true function to…
We’re getting outside my domain of expertise. Like I said, I don’t personally work on fluid dynamics – I work…
Nobody uses the NS equations to find their *real actual solutions* in engineering problems. They use approximations. The math question…
Currently I don’t see a reply button to Mark’s post, so I’m replying to my own. This is a reply…
Interesting study, confirming what all Humeans and Nietzscheans already suspected. As Nietzsche quips (in Twilight of the Idols), "Nothing is easier to erase than a dialectical effect."
UPDATE: More thoughts, on Twitter, from philosopher Matt Lindauer (Brooklyn Coll/CUNY). (Link now fixed.)
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