Dialogue with Eliezer Yudkowsky on Neural Networks
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On “reversed stupidity”, the success of deep learning, and what a mistaken forecast should change about a model of intelligenceThis began as a Twitter/X thread after I posted a 2007 passage in which Eliezer Yudkowsky was scathing about neural networks, and…
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On “reversed stupidity”, the success of deep learning, and what a mistaken forecast should change about a model of intelligenceThis began as a Twitter/X thread after I posted a 2007 passage in which Eliezer Yudkowsky was scathing about neural networks, and asked whether, in hindsight, his dismissal was itself a case of “reversed stupidity is not intelligence”. Yudkowsky joined the thread to explain what he had and hadn’t been dismissing (and what he thought he had actually got wrong) and we ende
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