I mostly just mean that when you’re modeling the problem, it doesn’t really help to think about the AIs as being made of parts, so you end up reasoning mostly at the level of abstraction of “model” rather than “parameter”, and at that level of abstraction, there aren’t that many pieces.
Like, in some sense all practical problems are about particular consequences of laws of physics. But the extent to which you end up making use of that type of reductionist model varies greatly by domain.
I mostly just mean that when you’re modeling the problem, it doesn’t really help to think about the AIs as being made of parts, so you end up reasoning mostly at the level of abstraction of “model” rather than “parameter”, and at that level of abstraction, there aren’t that many pieces.
Like, in some sense all practical problems are about particular consequences of laws of physics. But the extent to which you end up making use of that type of reductionist model varies greatly by domain.
Thanks, that’s clarifying. I had a similar confusion to Raemon.