The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood – By Kushal Chakrabarti

Re:The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood – By Kushal Chakrabarti by voxic11 on Thursday September 04, 2025 @10:08AM (#45127450)

Maybe human brains are constantly generating (and training on) massive amounts of synthetic data and that is how they get so smart?

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Re:The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood – By Kushal Chakrabarti by anthonypasq on Thursday September 04, 2025 @10:21AM (#45127585)

This sentence really struck me in a particular way. Very interesting. It does seem like thoughts/stream of consciousness is just your brain generating random tokens to itself and learning from it lol.

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Re:The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood – By Kushal Chakrabarti by jimbokun on Thursday September 04, 2025 @10:47AM (#45127915)

What experiment could be run to test this hypothesis?

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Re:The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood – By Kushal Chakrabarti by timeinput on Thursday September 04, 2025 @01:10PM (#45129583)

You mean those like 8 hours of ~~nightmares~~ dreams I have every night?

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Re:The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood – By Kushal Chakrabarti by garspin on Thursday September 04, 2025 @11:57PM (#45134853)

I doubt it. Brains run at only a few operations per second.... GPUS at TFLOPS. There just isn't enough bandwidth.

My brain only needs to get mugged in a dark alley by a guy in a hoodie once to learn something.

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