[HN Gopher] Mortal Computers
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       Mortal Computers
        
       Author : che_shr_cat
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2023-10-09 13:25 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | sdwr wrote:
       | > Hinton believes that Donald Trump's posts aren't really about
       | facts or their authenticity but are about distilling his beliefs
       | by having his followers learn a probability distribution that
       | carries a rich signal.
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       | That's the stuff! Love the information theory approach. Where it
       | gets hairy is if most of the 'rich signal' is social - "We like
       | this guy!" / "We hate this nasty woman!" It's compelling
       | information, but based in tribal politics and quickly untethers
       | from ground truth facts.
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       | The 'teacher / student' model vs backprop has the potential to
       | shine a light on human relationships. It's computationally
       | expensive to learn from scratch. Being taught means placing the
       | teacher where the world would go, imbibing a compressed (and
       | emotionally heightened) distillation, along with biases.
        
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