alt Hacker News> I don’t understand why people make such a big deal about determinism.
There a certain cargo cult of people just in denial about the impact/power of AIs.
Therefore, at the beginning, there was the stochastic parrot. Then mathematical problems have been solved.
Now AIs are autonomously hacking websites, and people like to minimize the danger and blame it on the sysadmins.
I wonder what's going to be the next fad.
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> Therefore, at the beginning, there was the stochastic parrot. Then mathematical problems have been solved.
A stochastic parrot with human knowledge, using human tools, running human-designed trial-and-error experiments can solve human-defined hard math problems. This is nothing new, automated mechanical proofs predate LLMs by many years, you being unaware of it doesn't change it.
There is surprisingly to me a strong hidden dualism to many people here. Its very absurd to believe in such things after centuries of success after success of the materialist physical framework in natural sciences demolishing one by one every "special" thing we thought was magical.