In case you haven’t seen it, Chris Olah’s work in neural network interpretability is extremely concordant with naturalism.
It’s common for people to say that neural networks are something like “a mass of inscrutable tensors” and I feel like Olah is one of the only people whose response was something like “did you try literally scrutinizing them” and the answer is no, no one did, because they looked complicated and icky. And then Olah did, and when he looked, he saw things.
In case you haven’t seen it, Chris Olah’s work in neural network interpretability is extremely concordant with naturalism.
It’s common for people to say that neural networks are something like “a mass of inscrutable tensors” and I feel like Olah is one of the only people whose response was something like “did you try literally scrutinizing them” and the answer is no, no one did, because they looked complicated and icky. And then Olah did, and when he looked, he saw things.
Agreed. Also had this experience recently, although I really like the way you put it here.