So is the fascination with applying math to complex real-world problems (like alignment) when the necessary assumptions don’t really fit the real-world problem.
Beauty of notation is an optimization target and so should fail as a metric, but especially compared to other optimization targets I’ve pushed on, in my experience it seems to hold up. The exceptions appear to be string theory and category theory and two failures in a field the size of math is not so bad.
Over-fascination with beautiful mathematical notation is idol worship.
So is the fascination with applying math to complex real-world problems (like alignment) when the necessary assumptions don’t really fit the real-world problem.
(Not “idle worship”?)
Beauty of notation is an optimization target and so should fail as a metric, but especially compared to other optimization targets I’ve pushed on, in my experience it seems to hold up. The exceptions appear to be string theory and category theory and two failures in a field the size of math is not so bad.