It's already wrong at the first step. A probabilistic system is by definition not a function (it is a relation). This is such a basic mistake I don't know how anyone can take this seriously. Many existing systems are also not strictly functions (internal state can make them return different outputs for a given input). People love to abuse mathematics and employ its concepts hastily and irresponsibly.

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therobots927 4 days ago | parent [-]

The fact that the author is a data scientist at Anthropic should start ringing alarm bells for anyone paying attention. Isn’t Claude supposed to be at the front of the pack? To be honest I have a suspicion that Claude wrote the lions share of this essay. It’s that incomprehensible and soaked in jargon and formulas used completely out of context and incorrectly.

	▲	stoorafa 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Their job, in this case, is probably more of a signal than a clear indicator Plenty of front-running companies have hired plenty of…not-solid or excessively imaginative data scientists From what the other comments say, this one seems to lack a grounding in science itself, which frankly is par for the course depending on their background