alt Hacker NewsWhat if we ultimately find there are two different, internally consistent but mutually incompatible, representations?
What if one of them is a Republican and one is a Democrat? We already see this in some systems today.
More worrying, what if one is (for lack of a better word, what we might describe as) God and one is the Devil?
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Nothing will happen, we already have kind of translation activities happen between "incompatible views" in real life, it works.
Besides, in weights there are no real incompatibility can happen, all is unified with same math chain through architecture. Different set of local minimums/maximums can have different strong/weak consequences but nothing incompatible.
Different consistent representations also mean that model probably can be simplier for the same task, sign of excessive capacity, imho
> More worrying, what if one is (for lack of a better word, what we might describe as) God and one is the Devil?
In this framing, are God and Devil stand-ins for Good and Evil?
If that results in testable predictions, we check them, compare with representations and then are left with just one. And if it doesn't result in testable predictions it can be left for people to write papers on.