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by tomaskafka 6 hours ago
> Second, some people do really believe in a kind of platonic representation space that all models converge on, and that represents the “true” state of the world. If truth is indeed an objective part of the world, then you might expect such a universal truth direction to emerge as models get better. This

This really sounds like all those scifi stories with people trying to find god in the computer. How could it be there, in the jumbled mirror of internet scraped texts.

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I've heard some weird definitions of God. I always thought God was supposed to be a giant man sitting in the clouds, but some people apparently equate God with the meaning of life, or human civilization, or morality, or the sum of all human knowledge or experience.
Easy! It is... emergent!