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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2024
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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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Ya know, it's funny that you point this out, it's a thing about their style of argument that's been nagging at me for a while.
There's a pattern in the promptfondlers' propaganda where they claim that they they've identified a path to improve their technology recursively and infinitely, but their strategy relies on the invention of what is essentially a "truth oracle" in the compsci sense of the word "oracle." If they had a machine that could reliably decide the truth value of an arbitrary proposition, then they could foof us all to roboheaven ASAP.
I guess that's true, since anyone could use a truth oracle to implement a binary search on The Akashic Records or whatever to discover new useful truths about life, the universe, and everything. Any new route of investigation would end in a game of 20 questions with your infinite knowledge genie.
Naturally, LLMs are never going to be a truth oracle; you just can't get there from here, but try telling them that.
Damn bro, they're gonna hate this Turing fellow once they learn he crushed their dreams OVER ~~SEVEN~~ EIGHT DECADES AGO
EDIT: someone pointed out I suck at arithmetic