“read Sherlock Holmes and the guy's incredibly sample efficient. He'll see a few observations and he'll basically figure out who committed the crime because there's a series of deductive steps”
Books mentioned in Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken — How LLMs actually think
From Dwarkesh Podcast · 2024-03-28
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“representations would be favored, right? That's a more efficient way to communicate. A book that Trenton recommended, The Symbolic Species, has this really interesting argument that”
“basically, when you see the line, “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley did something. Mr. _____,” and you're trying to predict what “blank” is and the head has learned to look for previous occurrences of the”
“and they just try to predict it. They're like, “we'll start you off with Lorax or something and then you'll learn.” I don't even remember what first-grade was like but you learned”