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Comment Without my money (Score 1) 7

We don't need to explore space right now, we need to repair our biosphere.

There's nothing in space that will help us do that in time to actually do it.

If people want to spend their own money doing it that's fine, although then there's a conversation to be had about where that money came from.

Comment Re: Debugging LLM (Score 1) 107

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When the perceptron was invented in the 1950s, it wasnâ(TM)t seen as a âoesimple thing" at all. Frank Rosenblatt and the U.S. Navy promoted it as a major step toward machine intelligence. A New York Times headline in July 1958 read âoeElectronic âBrainâ(TM) Teaches Itselfâ (NYT, July 13 1958: [https://www.nytimes.com/1958/07/13/archives/electronic-brain-teaches-itself.html](https://www.nytimes.com/1958/07/13/archives/electronic-brain-teaches-itself.html)). Rosenblatt predicted it could someday âoewalk, talk, see, write, reproduce itself and be conscious of its existence.â Back then, digital computers only followed explicit programs. The perceptronâ(TM)s ability to *learn from examples* seemed almost magical. It wasnâ(TM)t until later â" especially after Minsky and Papertâ(TM)s 1969 book *Perceptrons* â" that people realized it was just a linear classifier, limited to linearly separable problems like AND and OR, but not XOR.

So at first the perceptron looked like a brain. Only later did people see it as algebra. Ironically, deep learning today just stacks a lot of those âoesimpleâ perceptrons together with nonlinearities â" proving Rosenblatt was right that his idea was the seed of something big.

Refs:

* Rosenblatt, F. (1958). "The Perceptron: A Probabilistic Model for Information Storage and Organization in the Brain." *Psychological Review* 65(6): 386â"408. [https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/h0042519](https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/h0042519)
* Minsky, M. & Papert, S. (1969). *Perceptrons*. MIT Press. [https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262630221/perceptrons/](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262630221/perceptrons/)
* "Electronic 'Brain' Teaches Itself." *New York Times*, July 13, 1958. [https://www.nytimes.com/1958/07/13/archives/electronic-brain-teaches-itself.html](https://www.nytimes.com/1958/07/13/archives/electronic-brain-teaches-itself.html)

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If you check those citations will you be disappointed that they weren't hallucinated?

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