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whimsicalism 3 hours ago

> how these models are going to keep up with the expanding boundary of science

The same way humans do?

The phraseology in this comment: 'probability distributions', 'baked these patterns' IMO has all the trappings of the stochastic parrot-style HN-discourse that has been consistently wrong for almost a decade now.

The reference to how AI will keep up with AI-assisted human progress in science in 2030 is meant to reassure. It contains a number of premises that we have no business being confident in. We are potentially witnessing the obviation of human cognitive labor.

mccoyb 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Sorry, are you familiar with what a next token distribution is, mathematically speaking?

If you are not, let me introduce you to the term: a probability distribution.

Just because it has profound properties ... doesn't make it different.

> has all the trappings of the stochastic parrot-style HN-discourse that has been consistently wrong for almost a decade now

Perhaps respond to my actual comment compared to whatever meta-level grouping you wish to interpret it as part of?

> It contains a number of premises that we have no business being confident in. We are potentially witnessing the obviation of human cognitive labor.

What premises? Be clear.