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cybernetic forests X Y reframing essay
It's Not Just X. It's Y.
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“One of them is RLVR, which I’ve written about here as clearly as I could, albeit in a different context: mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just...” evidence ↗
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“One of them is RLVR, which I’ve written about here as clearly as I could, albeit in a different context: mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just...”
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Eryk Salvaggio: This may be considered spicy but as someone who wrote a paper in 2022 that put this idea into the world (re: image models) the LLM is not merely reflecting what people say on the Internet anymore; …
Eryk Salvaggio: It parrots the structure of how we discuss ideas to arrive at conclusions. They have abstracted that form of conversation into something a model can work with. But "it was obviously in the training…
Eryk Salvaggio: But all that is pretty confusing if you're stuck on the idea that language is thinking. The paradigm shift is that these models made unthinking erudition possible, and we have to grapple with under…
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