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		sweezyjeezy on Dec 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Will scaling work? There's a couple of false dichotomies here - to say that because we're "more optimised" we must be the most optimised. Our brains are optimised well for certain things, sure, but computers are far more efficient at e.g. crunching numbers than we are - to say that there's no success in a machine that can't currently beat us at math - this year has already proven that false

daepyonim on Dec 28, 2023 [–]

That google paper really gave a bunch of idiots a whole bunch of ammunition. The four color theorem was proven by a machine long ago and it was worthless, about as worthless as what funsearch did!

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