Maybe "disproportionately" would be a better term
Joe Simons
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Using computers to better understand people. Social psychologist. Bristol to Singapore via Oxford and UNC.
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In my late 20s, I was on a domestic flight which was delayed taking off. Called my wife to let her know I was held up. After hanging up, the middle-aged lady next to me spoke up
"Boy, did you say that was your wife?" "Errr... Yeah"
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Despite the generally dark times, this exchange made me laugh out loud
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Yes, and come to see the end point of reading as having a set of atomic bullet points to be regurgitated at an appropriate juncture
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The older I get, the more irrationally intolerant I become towards cliches
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Allez les Francs-tartines
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Sure. But LLMs themselves are pretty good at vague, underspecified language tasks but do sometimes trip up over maths and symbolic reasoning. That reversal of the typical strengths of computing is what I was gesturing at.
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To sort the world into clean pre- and post-invention epochs is to buy into the sextant binary
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Absolutely agree with this take. Also, "you can, in fact, make computers good at natural language but this really inhibits their ability to do symbolic operations" is both surprising and interesting.
