Networks with loops are much harder to train.. that was one of the motivations for going to transformers instead of RNNs. But yeah, sure, I agree. My objection is more that posts like this are so high level I have trouble following the argument, if that makes sense. The argument seems roughly plausible but not making contact with any real object level stuff makes it a lot weaker, at least to me. The argument seems to rely on “emergence of self-awareness / discovery of malevolence/deception during SGD” being likely which is unjustified in my view. I’m not saying the argument is wrong, more that I personally don’t find it very convincing.
Networks with loops are much harder to train.. that was one of the motivations for going to transformers instead of RNNs. But yeah, sure, I agree. My objection is more that posts like this are so high level I have trouble following the argument, if that makes sense. The argument seems roughly plausible but not making contact with any real object level stuff makes it a lot weaker, at least to me. The argument seems to rely on “emergence of self-awareness / discovery of malevolence/deception during SGD” being likely which is unjustified in my view. I’m not saying the argument is wrong, more that I personally don’t find it very convincing.