Honestly, I’ve just had to go back and forth banging my head on Friston’s free-energy papers, non-Fristonfree-energy papers, and the ordinary variational inference literature—for the past two years, prior to which I spent three years banging my head on the Josh Tenenbaum-y computational cog-sci literature and got used to seeing probabilistic models of cognition.
I’m now really fucking glad to be in a PhD program where I can actually use that knowledge.
Oh, and btw, everyone at MIRI was exactly as confused as Scott is when I presented a bunch of free-energy stuff to them last March.
Honestly, I’ve just had to go back and forth banging my head on Friston’s free-energy papers, non-Friston free-energy papers, and the ordinary variational inference literature—for the past two years, prior to which I spent three years banging my head on the Josh Tenenbaum-y computational cog-sci literature and got used to seeing probabilistic models of cognition.
I’m now really fucking glad to be in a PhD program where I can actually use that knowledge.
Oh, and btw, everyone at MIRI was exactly as confused as Scott is when I presented a bunch of free-energy stuff to them last March.