David Austin
davideaustin.bsky.social
PhDing @ MILA/McGill in Computer Science | Multi-agent systems, emergent organization, and neurosymbolic methods Previously @ UWaterloo Also love guitar/bass, volleyball, history, cycling, and institutional design
👤 Joined on 27 November 2024
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1. A quick thread to summarize my and Cosma's new piece on LLMs as Homeric songs at the Economist. The piece has its origins in bactra.org/weblog/feral... and this fantastic article by Murray Shanahan et al, which we couldn't link as we would have liked www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Blue stripes on dish towels have apparently been around for a v v long time.
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The problem is not the idea that if you invest resources in something, you shouldn’t expect a return. That is sensible. The problem is that the word “return” has been so narrowed as to mean only “money.“ Institutions cannot see the non-monetary returns on investment as *returns.*
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Sports and war are both competitions you watch on the teevee where the leaders enact incomprehensible strategies which are obviously clever or obviously stupid in hindsight depending on whether they worked or not, but the only *real* prerequisite to winning is “wanting it more than the other guys”.
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It's striking to me how much this...uh...strategy...conversation resembles some sports commentary where most of what is being said is basically bullshit. It's all just words with no substance, he says 'open the strait' like that is a thing you can just decide to do and then do in an afternoon.
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