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this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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"Inference Magazine," a substack written by a young feller named "Wiseman" who, in the most recent article, says "nuh-uh, you're the parrot" to the work of Dr. Bender and co (and the rest of humanity, by extension).
https://inferencemagazine.substack.com/
The hackernews thread is a real Bad Philosophy turkey shoot:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655780
Orange site really is out here reinventing hard behaviorism.
"We can't directly observe internal states beyond our own subjectivity" -> Let's try to ignore them and see what we get" -> "We've developed a model that doesn't feature internal states as a meaningful element of cognition" -> "there are no internal states" -> "I know I'm a stochastic parrot but what are you?"
Damn well put!
some parrots are more stochastic than others
These people need to sit through a college level class on linguistics or something like that. This is a demonstration of why STEM majors need general higher education.