YoungAchamian
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YoungAchamian
3d ago
I found this insightful
Admittedly I skimmed it but I didn't find it all that enlightening. Maybe this is just my personal pet peeve or I am getting cantankerous in my old age, but I really hate the sci-fi/mathematical-gooblie-gook that lots of AI/ML discourse becomes. It become increasingly hard for my midwit engineering brain to parse what is actually being talked about rather than people wanting to be seen "to have deep AI understanding". It's like a deliberate failing of the Feynman Technique in order to sound impressive and smart. If I have to spend 10 mins a paragraph and a bunch of Wikipedia tabs trying to understand what you are conveying, that's bad.
I'm actually curious what the semantic distance between this and how I talk about AI/ML in my professional life to my non-mle colleagues. Maybe I sound closer to this than I think, which terrifies me. My heuristic is the more unparsable, jargon-filled sounding it is, the more scammer-adjacent the speaker.
YoungAchamian
18d ago
Any system of government works under a certain amount of people. I am uncertain as to the exact number but it's probably lower than Dunbar's.
Interesting, I'd think that any system of government works at a Dunbar number or lower. It more likely that each system of government has a scaling factor for a threshold that after which it fails or becomes inefficient leading to failure.
YoungAchamian
28d ago
I think the general topic of our discussion was that he was advocating for treating actual people differently, I was not. He has a strong moral distaste for certain historical positions, to which I pointed out if HBD is even slightly true, the downstream effect of his positions, would lead directly to the historical ideas he so loathes. He had never heard of HBD, and I didn't have the the necessary repository of information to give him an in depth highlight more than the surface level: Traits are inherited across different ethnic groups leading to a distribution between groups.
I wanted to attempt to fix that.
YoungAchamian
28d ago
This is useful thank you! Low chance he'll actually read it my it's nice to have a repo of links.
It was meant to be a comment on his: "If you can't explain it to a 5 year old, you don't really understand it" (the irony is not lost of me). Here (this medium article and hundreds others like it) I feel like people use deliberately obscuring or jargon rich language because its not about the conversation, its about the social-intellectual signaling.
And what is honestly the worst part, is if you don't partake you are the odd one out. Signaling you are either too autistic, truth-driven, or asocial to really get with the program of speaking AI-gobbly-gook speak to the peons in an attempt to sell more, network more, chest bump more etc. It really is a weird and annoying af failure mode.
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