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The essay is just bad. Its answer to "How important were the Achaemenids as a template for Sasanian power?" is "very important" and proceeds to squeeze that from the analysis at an…

The so-called "scaling laws" are expressing diminishing returns. How is it that "if we grow resources used exponentially errors decrease linearly" ever seen as a good sign?

And the often missed caveat is that we should only care about whether the software does what it is supposed to do. Under that light, LLMs are just buggy and have been for years. Wh…

Every argument about LLMs of that is a variant of "humans same" is self defeating because it assumes a level of understanding of human cognition and the human brain that doesn't re…

"It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language." - Sapir It's hard to take these discussions on cognition and intellige…