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0 pointsbluefirebrand2y ago0 comments

> I don't think a human mind would be improving if they're in a echo-chamber with no new information

If this were true of humans, we would have never made it this far

Humans are very capable of looking around themselves and thinking "I can do better than this", and then trying to come up with ways how

LLMs are not

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diggan2y ago

> Humans are very capable of looking around themselves and thinking "I can do better than this"

Doesn't this require at least some perspective of what "better than this" means, which you could only know with at least a bit of outside influence in one way or another?

Jensson2y ago

Every human has feelings and instincts, they answer what "better than this" means.

Yes, even in math and science, those were built on top of our feeling of "better than this" iterated over thousands of years.

esafak2y ago

Parsimony, explanatory power, and aesthetics. These are things that could be taught to a computer, and I think we will. We had to evolve them too.

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