it is still so cool to me how humans created language and spent centuries describing our world to each other well enough that we could compress the accumulated words into ghosts who have a reasonably accurate model of the physical world as perceived by human brains
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Reply · Apr 13, 2023yeah I love how LLMs are piggy-backing on thousands of years of humans refining language as an abstraction layer for the human experienceReply · Jul 29, 2023@warty_dog @typecarlosmale I disagree- we are using the human technology of language as an abstraction layer over physical reality and training it…Quote tweet · Sep 11, 2024"[humans] are a machine for grammar induction over a wide range of domains with a heavy bias towards hominid social modeling and forestry" 😻Reply · Mar 2, 2023@LavitzStar awww I wish I knew the right answer to this! feel like our human brains aren't made for comprehending the scale of the modern world... too…