‘”good” optimization algorithms for neural networks’ also has no difference in meaning from ‘”glorxnag” optimization algorithms for neural networks’, or any random permutation, if your prior point holds.
I don’t understand what point you are trying to make, to be honest. There are certain problems that humans/I care about that we/I want NNs to solve, and some optimizers (e.g. Adam) solve those problems better or more tractably than others (e.g. SGD or second order methods). You can claim that the “set of problems humans care about” is “arbitrary”, to which I would reply “sure?”
Similarly, I want “good” “philosophy” to be “better” at “solving” “problems I care about.” If you want to use other words for this, my answer is again “sure?” I think this is a good use of the word “philosophy” that gets better at what people actually want out of it, but I’m not gonna die on this hill because of an abstract semantic disagreement.
That’s the thing, there is no definable “set of problems humans care about” without some kind of attached or presumed metaphilosophy,at least none that you, or anyone, could possibly figure out in the foreseeable future and prove to a reasonable degree of confidence to the LW readerbase.
It’s not even ‘arbitrary’, that string of letters is indistinguishable from random noise.
i.e. Right now your first paragraph is mostly meaningless if read completely literally and by someone who accepts the claim. Such a hypothetical person would think you’ve gone nuts because it would appear like you took a well written comment and inserted strings of random keyboard bashing in the middle.
Of course it’s unlikely that someone would be so literal minded, and so insistent on logical correctness, that they would completely equate it with random bashing of a keyboard. But it’s possible some portion of readers lean towards that.
‘”good” optimization algorithms for neural networks’ also has no difference in meaning from ‘”glorxnag” optimization algorithms for neural networks’, or any random permutation, if your prior point holds.
I don’t understand what point you are trying to make, to be honest. There are certain problems that humans/I care about that we/I want NNs to solve, and some optimizers (e.g. Adam) solve those problems better or more tractably than others (e.g. SGD or second order methods). You can claim that the “set of problems humans care about” is “arbitrary”, to which I would reply “sure?”
Similarly, I want “good” “philosophy” to be “better” at “solving” “problems I care about.” If you want to use other words for this, my answer is again “sure?” I think this is a good use of the word “philosophy” that gets better at what people actually want out of it, but I’m not gonna die on this hill because of an abstract semantic disagreement.
That’s the thing, there is no definable “set of problems humans care about” without some kind of attached or presumed metaphilosophy, at least none that you, or anyone, could possibly figure out in the foreseeable future and prove to a reasonable degree of confidence to the LW readerbase.
It’s not even ‘arbitrary’, that string of letters is indistinguishable from random noise.
i.e. Right now your first paragraph is mostly meaningless if read completely literally and by someone who accepts the claim. Such a hypothetical person would think you’ve gone nuts because it would appear like you took a well written comment and inserted strings of random keyboard bashing in the middle.
Of course it’s unlikely that someone would be so literal minded, and so insistent on logical correctness, that they would completely equate it with random bashing of a keyboard. But it’s possible some portion of readers lean towards that.