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0 pointstextninja3y ago0 comments

> Largely because it's impossible to replicate something when we don't entirely know how it works.

On the contrary. These are mostly orthogonal.

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waboremo3y ago· 2 in thread

How do you believe they're orthogonal?

Biological reproduction for one. Copy/paste for another. Biological reproduction is only tenuously related to understanding and copy/paste isn’t even related at all. We can copy around weights and biases all day without understanding them.

waboremo3y ago

Makes sense, you've changed my mind a bit but only the part that consciously understands.

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