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by TeMPOraL 7 hours ago
Mathematicians, philosophers, cognitive scientists, and others.

The latent space encoded in the weights of a model is itself an object of study, just as interesting as the model itself.

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someone on HN about a year ago was trying to argue that an LLM is not a cultural artifact for an anthropologist to study.

There's definitely people around that have no idea about the "soft" sciences and how an LLM while constructed from a "hard" science is almost entirely a "soft" science object.