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2023-06-22 15:15 UTC
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@corbin@defcon.social 2023-06-22 16:35
@cr@sigmoid.social @emilymbender@dair-community.social I didn't know that Tegmark was a practicing software engineer. I don't doubt that he can read and comprehend the literature, and I know he's listed as a co-author on several papers, but I think it's important to credit the actual hackers who do the work. In the case of Tegmark's recent ML publications, this appears to be https://github.com/ejmichaud and https://github.com/KindXiaoming who are Tegmark's graduate students. To Tegmark's credit, he gives them the primary authorship on the papers I skimmed. This is a non-trivial nuance: folks who don't multiply the matrices seem to have a distinct epistemology for large models, and this will color their ability to estimate the state of the field and probability of doom.