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brookst
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The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL
There are also two kinds of people - those who are objective enough to
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when it happens and those who will never even see when they’re outperformed because of their cognitive biases.
I give you a 2x2x2 matrix.
kubb
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Sure, but if a person can find an easier way to do their job, they’ll usually do it. Usually the bias is towards less energy expenditure.
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brookst
10 days ago
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For many people, yes. For people who have their identity invested in being the smartest person in the room, life is considerably harder.
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avs733
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I'm sure if we work hard enough we can add a meta-meta-cognition level. Cognition is just 2^n series of binary states right?
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magicalhippo
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> I give you a 2x2x2 matrix.
That'd be a tensor, no?
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sva_
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A rank-3 tensor, yes. Matrices are rank-2 tensors.
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avs733
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God I hated tensors in grad school. Give me a Taylor series any day.
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dboreham
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Everything that seems complicated is just a "fancy matrix".
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I give you a 2x2x2 matrix.