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by jackson1372 2382 days ago
Isn't the explanation for this that the world actually does work in some way or other and that it's not just infinite chaos and so if you keep throwing parameters at some problem, you will eventually stumble upon the "real" structure, but that's no guarantee of when that occurs, and with which parameters?
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Well, the thing is that when one says "the world has structure", one is saying that there are variety of structures "out there", in the world.

But that doesn't mean there's a single structure determined by a single set of parameters. Quite possibly there are numerous structures with not-compatible parameter structures.

Moreover, common AI data sets share parameters in a fashion that isn't always obvious - most images on the web are photos taken by human photographers who tend to center their subject, effectively giving them different parameters than, say, security camera footage. IE, "normal data" may not mean what we imagine.