It is worth noting that among the various models, DeepMind's model was most prone to the specious pedantry -- entirely missing the point that there is a difference between model generation and model selection.
Google Strikes Again! On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > https://claude.ai/share/df6fdf28-b73b-48b7-9f5b-01b265e3748c > > Prompt: > > "Provide a counterfactual analysis of a history in which starting with the > publication of Solomonoff's papers on inductive inference, it was > recognized that approximating the Kolmogorov Complexity of a wide-ranging > selection of longitudinal macrosocial measures was recognized by the NSF as > the gold standard information criterion for selecting among candidate > causal models of macrosocial dynamics, and paid out its funding for > sociology only to those who decreased the size of the executable archive of > that standardized dataset." > > Anyone with an information technology background that holds strong > political opinions that can read this and still be tolerant of "the > experts" to whom they defer, has no idea what information actually is. > > It's amazing how stupid people are when it comes to this topic. The > arguments that inevitably come up time and time again are, when > appropriately framed, specious pedantry so transparent that one is hard > pressed to describe them as anything but obstructionist fear of truth. > > "CrimeStop" comes to mind: > > “Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at > the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not > grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of > misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and > of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of > leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective > stupidity.” > -- George Orwell, 1984 > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T6e1019516c8638e9-Mb47ea3e9d078062f368195c4 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
