Re:Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data ...
by ben_w on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @08:14AM
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You can get knowledge collapse.
But based on how often people were already doing this with buggy human-written software[0][1] — and even though there are counter-examples (e.g. learning Go from self-play based only on the rules) — IMO most people don't think about this in the right way and will therefore treat these things as magical oracles when they shouldn't.
But based on how often people were already doing this with buggy human-written software[0][1] — and even though there are counter-examples (e.g. learning Go from self-play based only on the rules) — IMO most people don't think about this in the right way and will therefore treat these things as magical oracles when they shouldn't.
No silver bullets.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_says_no