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Existential Hope Podcast: Anders Sandberg | Grand Futures & The Post-Human Coral Reef

The Foresight Institute Podcast

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The Mystery of Overparameterization in the Neural Network Field

I think it's often evident on a small scale. And then I think one can apply to the largest scale of simulation too. Just because a field has matured in some sense and understood something doesn't mean that it has totally understood its domain. There might be important aspects that could change that actually revolutionize it. The ordering of technology, the speed they arrive, is very hard to predict. So if you think that something is important, it's very likely true. But other things might turn out more important. Quantum computing might be one thing that's obviously retrospectively coming out until the 90s. We also have this glalume space where we kind of recognize that space would be awesome

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