I’m really glad to see posts like this. It’s great that someone can take concepts that are ordinarily only explained with an entire textbook worth of words, and being condensed into an intuitive blog post that laypersons can understand and remember. Lots of people try to explain this in a couple sentences and they just fail, or at least they fail to convey the nuances.
I still think that this could be distilled perhaps to 50% of the length and retain 95% of the value (both from containing all of the original content, and giving enough examples such that most readers will operationalize the concepts properly). There was also this one sentence that was strikingly difficult to follow, even though its content was helpful:
Figuring out that your next utterance is ‘mongo’ is not mostly a question, I’d guess, of that mighty Mind being hammered into the shape of a thing that can simulate arbitrary humans, and then some less intelligent subprocess being responsible for adapting the shape of that Mind to be you exactly, after which it simulates you saying ‘mongo’.
I’m really glad to see posts like this. It’s great that someone can take concepts that are ordinarily only explained with an entire textbook worth of words, and being condensed into an intuitive blog post that laypersons can understand and remember. Lots of people try to explain this in a couple sentences and they just fail, or at least they fail to convey the nuances.
I still think that this could be distilled perhaps to 50% of the length and retain 95% of the value (both from containing all of the original content, and giving enough examples such that most readers will operationalize the concepts properly). There was also this one sentence that was strikingly difficult to follow, even though its content was helpful: