Empiricism

Posts tagged with empiricism.

Posts

• The Bitter Lesson - This post examines Rich Sutton’s influential 2019 essay “The Bitter Lesson” through the lens of subs
• Escaping the Echo Chamber - This post addresses the risk of intellectual echo chambers when using sophisticated AI for thinking
• The Vector Fallacy - This post addresses a common critique of large language models: “Concepts aren’t vectors—concepts do
• Consciousness vs. Soul - This post responds to Matthew Barnett’s tweet claiming “‘consciousness’ is simply the modern, secula