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0 pointscs7021y ago0 comments

That's in fact precisely my point:

Clever forms of "dumb search" that leverage compute, DNNs, RL, self-play, and/or formal languages are not dumb at all.

I put the words "dumb search" in quotes precisely because I think critics who dismiss AI progress as such are missing the point.

We're not in disagreement :-)

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tux31y ago

>Clever forms of "dumb search" that leverage compute, DNNs, RL, self-play, and formal languages are not dumb at all

Right. My point is that you're attacking a position that no real critic holds. Of course we're in agreement then!

"Clever forms of dumb search are not dumb" feels a little like kicking down open doors. We were always going to agree.

cs702OP1y ago

> My point is that you're attacking a position that no real critic holds

I'm not so sure. I wrote my comment after seeing quite a few comments on other threads here that read like fancy versions of "this is just brute-force search over cleverly pruned trees." Search the other threads here, and you'll see what I mean.

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