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It's a proxy for generalized reasoning.

The point isn't that LLMs are the best AI architecture for chess.


> It's a proxy for generalized reasoning.

And so for I am only convinced that they have only succeeded on appearing to have generalized reasoning. That is, when an LLM plays chess they are performing Searle’s Chinese room thought experiment while claiming to pass the Turing test


Why? Beating chess is more about searching a probability space, not reasoning.

Reasoning would be more like the car wash question.


It's not entirely clear how LLMs that can play chess do so, but it is clearly very different from the way other machines do so. The construct a board, they can estimate a players skill and adjust accordingly, and unlike other machines and similarly to humans, they are sensitive to how a certain position came to be when predicting the next move.

Regardless, there's plenty of reasoning in chess.


It’s very clear how, chess moves and positions are vector encoded into their training data, when they are prompted with a certain board state, they respond with the most probable response to that. There is no reason.

Actual Researchers can't give you a complete answer but you can. Whatever you say.

Guess what, I’m a researcher. I have published papers.

Okay

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Also the explicit survivorship bias... this would not be near the front page if their predictions were all wrong.


> "System structure mirrors organization"

Conway's Law is the general term for this concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law


I don't think most consumers are familiar with the iPhone XR. They know iPhone, and maybe iPhone X, but I don't think the naming will be an issue here.


I guess we shall see.

https://i.imgur.com/3HqLMma.png


Not true! The ISS has functioned as an outpost for science- 3,000+ experiments and counting

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/five-space-station-res...


And most importantly for anyone who cares about space the way Elon claims to: The ISS has done pretty much all the research we have on how humans survive in space.


The hazards of living in zero-G were understood at the end of the Mir era.


This doesn't support your assertion- in fact it does the opposite. The definition(s) of inflation has changed over time. That does not make the current definition(s) less correct


Well I did try to caveat it that its one of the few sources I could even find that reference the fact that the definition was changed.

My argument isn't with the fact that "inflation" is in fact being used to mean "price increase of goods." My issue is that economists co-opted the word at all and made it functionally useless, especially in isolation as it is often mentioned with no other context of why prices changed.

The use of "inflation" to mean money supply increase goes all the way back to the roman empire.


Surprisingly, Nintendo has a long history of copyright-striking videos of folks playing their games.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/16/nintendo-enforces-co...


https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aesthetic

Definition 1-c:

> pleasing in appearance : attractive



The author needs to get over themselves, it just means "cool" perhaps with an air of ironic intellectualism.


notably in modern use the phrase "aesthetic" also has associations with vaporwave movement. and late-90s design fits very well with that.


Or literally 90% of the YC class in any given year


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