Geoffrey Hinton on developing your own framework for understanding reality
This didn’t mean that I knew how to build these systems, just that I could know, given enough time & support. Now I felt the same way...but for everything. I didn’t know the limits of this framework, what couldn’t I figure out?
Defender • Geoffrey Hinton on developing your own framework for understanding reality
This , I think, is the shift absolutely everyone can make. Everyone can have this choice. Our world would absolutely be better if everyone was running around feeling that if they really cared about finding the truth about any particular issue, that they could.
Defender • Geoffrey Hinton on developing your own framework for understanding reality
It worked. I confirmed that the TV show, the fiction, had verifiable truth in it.
Defender • Geoffrey Hinton on developing your own framework for understanding reality
Fuck yeah it does! Fiction is born out of human observation and experiences. The plots might be unrealistic but the infrastructure supporting it has to be based on something right?
My enjoyment of film skyrocketed, and I became obsessed with what truths I could extract. For the first time in my life, I had strong opinions about what a character “should” have done. I saw myself and the director on equal footing: both of us are looking out into the world and trying to capture a predictive model of people . The TV show’s model... See more
Defender • Geoffrey Hinton on developing your own framework for understanding reality
I started to realize that there was ALWAYS a reason why people were acting in ways that were confusing to me. When they did something “confusing”, it was because I had a specific mental model of what their incentives/desires are, and I never updated that model when I got new information .