[blaufuchs]

TFA does say this too, right after the Hamming lecture.

"So instead of considering n-balls to be spiky, it’s the space around them that outgrows them."

[Sharlin]

Yes, but that doesn’t yet give me much intuition, so I wanted to elaborate on an idea I’ve found somewhat useful.

[Hugsun]

To be clear: the commenter you replied to just seems to be reiterating the idea, so I'm not accusing them of not reading the article.

You should have seen how few replies read the last article I posted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40525629 The majority of the comments, including all the top ones, expressed insights as original, that were pretty thoroughly analyzed in the article. Just read my mildly frustrated replies.

[Sharlin]

"Space is growing around the ball" just by itself doesn’t give much of an intuition at least to me, so I just wanted to elaborate on a way to think about it.

[Hugsun]

Yep, thanks for the great contribution!

[ColinWright]

> The majority of the comments, including all the top ones, expressed insights as original, that were pretty thoroughly analyzed in the article. Just read my mildly frustrated replies.

I have thoughts about this, but I can find no way to contact you to open a conversation. You might want to think about adding something to your HN profile.

Meanwhile ... from this and other sources, I feel your pain.

[gcanyon]

I read the article and the threads (to a point). It's hilarious that in the article you describe LLMs as being like hasty people jumping to conclusions, and the commenters on HN do exactly that thing in their comments.

[Hugsun]

Haha, that's a really funny similarity. I appreciate you sharing it :)