Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by lmm 1120 days ago
> Despite reason being a metaphysical property of the training data, the process of optimisation means weights are metaphysically reasonless.

Proof? Human reasoning somehow manages to retain its metaphysical reasoning-ness despite being processed as a bunch of mere electrical signals in the brain.

1 comments

No true human reasons with mere electrical signals!
Yeah, sure, there's also a chemical component to it. Doesn't matter for GP's point, though.