I don’t think LW is a good venue for judging the merits of this work. The crowd here will not be able to critically evaluate the technical statements.
When you write the sequence, write a paper, put it on arXiv and Twitter, and send it to a (preferably OpenReview, say TMLR) venue, so it’s likely to catch the attention of the relevant research subcommunities. My understanding is that the ML theory field is an honest field interested in bringing their work closer to the reality of current ML models. There are many strong mathematicians in the field who will be interested in dissecting your statements.
Yes, I’m planning to adapt a more technical and diplomatic version of this sequence after the first pass.
To give the ML theorists credit, there is genuinely interesting new non-”classical” work going on (but then “classical” is doing a lot of the heavy lifting). Still, some of these old-style tendrils of classical learning theory are lingering around, and it’s time to rip off the bandaid.
What if the arguments are more philosophy than math? In that case, I’d say there’s still some incentive to talk to the experts who are most familiar with the math, but a bit less so?
I don’t think LW is a good venue for judging the merits of this work. The crowd here will not be able to critically evaluate the technical statements.
When you write the sequence, write a paper, put it on arXiv and Twitter, and send it to a (preferably OpenReview, say TMLR) venue, so it’s likely to catch the attention of the relevant research subcommunities. My understanding is that the ML theory field is an honest field interested in bringing their work closer to the reality of current ML models. There are many strong mathematicians in the field who will be interested in dissecting your statements.
Yes, I’m planning to adapt a more technical and diplomatic version of this sequence after the first pass.
To give the ML theorists credit, there is genuinely interesting new non-”classical” work going on (but then “classical” is doing a lot of the heavy lifting). Still, some of these old-style tendrils of classical learning theory are lingering around, and it’s time to rip off the bandaid.
What if the arguments are more philosophy than math? In that case, I’d say there’s still some incentive to talk to the experts who are most familiar with the math, but a bit less so?
There’s more than enough math! (And only a bit of philosophy.)