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by farts_mckensy 611 days ago
The author seems stuck in this old line of thought that elevates human cognition while ignoring how much of what we call "thinking" is pattern recognition on some level anyway. Our own cognition can be reduced to probabilistic patterns if we’re being ruthlessly materialist about it. There's a sort of intellectual laziness in dismissing the utility of the models just because they're "not thinking."