Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl...
by epistasis on Sunday October 18, 2026 @11:10PM
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Agency and control, the most important. Even if LLMs could somehow assimilate all the knowledge that's not available in their training datasets that's essential to all aspects of our current economy, which they can't they don't know human desires.
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Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl...
by jimbokun on Sunday October 18, 2026 @11:28PM
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Their training data contains nothing about human desires?
Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl...
by epistasis on Monday October 19, 2026 @02:46AM
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Even with the entire knowledge of human desires available on the training data, one must still construct a prompt.
Desires which were trained on are only partially relevant to what I need right now.
Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl...
by jacquesm on Monday October 19, 2026 @02:59AM
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> Even with the entire knowledge of human desires available on the training data, one must still construct a prompt.
AI's are already constructing prompts.
Re:There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3bl...
by epistasis on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:02PM
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Prompts to do what and meet what human desire?
Whatever the AI does, humans are still here, and "math" just without humans controlling the direction will have limited utility.
Unless we are talking about turning all control of our society and economy to AI, which I have assumed is not even on the table because that's the one way we face existential risk.