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1 (Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.)
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4 Record.
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7 It says recording here.
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10 Yep, and it just, I clicked it as you spoke or just before or something like that. How are you doing? Well, I said this last time and you disagreed with me, but you look okay.
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13 Yes, so I actually think I am okay this time. Good, good, good. I'm a little compromised in various ways, which I'm going to tell you about.
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16 Sure, well.
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19 One of them being that I haven't done my homework for a reason I want to try to explain, actually.
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22 Well, I mean, it was short notice, but I figure we do this, well, I don't know, it's like going, this is a comparison I use too often in too many ways. It's like we used to do with the kids, which was that we would go to the West Coast of Scotland for the Maybank holiday weekend every year. And without paying any attention to what the weather forecast was, because you needed to book in advance to get a cheap place and so on.
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24 And sometimes that meant famously, and family history is a good thing, eating our sandwiches in a phone booth on the ferry pier between Skye and Rase, because it was raining too hard. Didn't want to sit in the car to have our picnic. But sometimes it meant swimming off white sand beaches in Ariseg in 20 degree weather, and it looked and felt like the Caribbean.
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26 So you win some and you lose some. And if this is not as well prepared as you'd like, then we'll talk anyway.
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28 [Speaker 2] (1:51 - 2:57)
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29 We'll talk anyway. And I have a question about substance. So here's the problem.
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31 I have to get the final draft of the Reflections book to the press by July 8th, which deadline I'm not going to make. But I need to make it enough that my good standing with the press remains such that I can get an extension. And I think given the uncertainty about my lifespan, to say nothing of maybe just efficiency overall, I just need to do that.
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33 So this morning, I kind of thought, look, am I going to spend the morning reading old versions of God Approximately, which I would like to do? And I slapped myself on the other wrist. Is that a well founded instructional?
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36 Probably not. But anyway.
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38 [Speaker 2] (3:01 - 3:08)
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39 And have been working on that.
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42 That's that. I mean, you you're the only person who can correctly set your priorities.
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45 Right. So I think I have to do that. Now, July 8th is not very far away.
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48 No, it's not.
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51 So that might mean delaying our project by a rather short amount of time. But realism, the aforementioned realism means it'll probably mean deferring it for longer than that.
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54 But understood. But we can we can reduce, at the very least, reduce the frequency. But I may try to keep it ticking over one way or another.
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57 Yeah, sure, sure. Well, so here's a question, if I can just plunge in. Maybe there are other.
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60 Of course.
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63 Yeah, go. So I was struck when I wrote the postscript note to our last meeting. By how I was framing everything.
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65 In terms of. Well, actually, I don't even remember the last note. Hang on a second.
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67 Maybe I should take a look at it.
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70 I should too.
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73 Was it email? Probably.
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76 I believe. Well, I'm sorry. If it was an email, then I don't have it.
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78 But that doesn't mean that it's not worth looking at. All right.
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81 So I'm desperately waiting.
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84 I gather from Jim that some progress has been made on the map project.
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87 On which project?
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90 The Save Brian's Mac project.
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93 Oh, yes. But not enough to have the Mac saved.
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96 Well, he was hopeful of his next meeting with you, but maybe it didn't happen that way.
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99 So when did I?
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102 Okay, here we are. Call this week. No, that was quick thought.
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104 It says here.
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107 Oh, that's it. Okay.
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110 Right.
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113 All right. So yeah, I've got it. Right.
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115 So as in the first paragraph, I say, call these the historical and metaphysical approaches.
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118 Right.
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121 And what I have not done is read any. So what you think you have or what you know that you have is something like version 11. Is that right?
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124 That's correct. 2009 version 11, which I would say in terms of this dichotomy is entirely the historical approach.
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127 Okay.
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130 And I think that's consistent with the note at the top, which says, in previous versions of this, I tried to produce a metaphysics, which would underpin what I'm talking about, but didn't get far enough to make it worth reproducing or something like that.
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136 I believe so. Let me just get the fact of the matter in front of me, which it nearly is. In fact, wait a minute.
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138 I'm just looking at the wrong place. This one. Yes, it is.
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140 A number of manuscripts have been circulated under this title over the last 15 years. Right. This one lacks any sketch of a worldview exhibiting the characteristics described.
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142 I presume that means described below as it were. Somewhat in response to the first version, which tried to provide such a view without explanation of what was interesting or mattered about it. If it seems worthwhile, I may someday incorporate all the various versions into a single long, it says short, monograph.
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145 Stereograph.
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148 Yes, something like that.
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151 Right. Okay. Well, that's very helpful actually to me.
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153 Bob, thank you for finding that. Yes, I think that longer monograph, the yet to be produced longer monograph is what I feel as if we're aiming at. And I don't actually know whether I made any attempt to say that these lead to the same view.
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155 I have actually thought about that. Okay. So, let me actually recite from memory four or five sentences and tell me if they ring a bell.
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157 Have you ever read them? Goes something like this. Start at the beginning.
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159 That is, start at what those who'd like to start at the beginning start with. Bosons, fermions, quarks, assemblages pressed into atoms and molecules and DNA and so on and so forth. And then the second paragraph saying, of course, something like that's not a beginning.
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161 Many will argue, whatever. And then something like, but actually it doesn't matter where we start. We'll end up in the same place.
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163 So, in the media there would be something like other people would say start with stories or something like that. Anyway.
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166 I see what you're saying. Okay. I mean, I think it's important that you, well, it changes where you go next to have something like the storyline, because otherwise it's all just about where you cut the physics.
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168 And that I think is not enough. That's just what I think of as, I had a version of this conversation last week with my regular Quaker interlocutor. There are these two questions, which I believe, which I tend to attribute to Kant, but I may get wrong.
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170 Why is there something rather than nothing? And how would I live my life? And if you talk to Dominicans, for instance, they will happily talk about one or the other, but usually find it challenging to see what the relationship is between likely answers to the first and likely answers to the second.
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172 That's another way of saying what it is you're trying to bring together, I think. Right.
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175 I think so. Yeah, I think so. And I think what I put in the note after the historical approach is sort of a story about how our understanding of Rameans and Bosons, as it were, has been pressed into service as a grounds for normativity and maybe objectivity and so on and so forth.
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177 I don't think successfully, but there is...
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180 That's really the first large paragraph in the email.
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183 Right. Which I've now buried under lots of windows.
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186 Well, the pure mechanism of classical science, then rationality with reference to Friggen logic, then normativity, and the current paradigm of deriving it from the evolutionary field, etc. Right.
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189 Yeah. So then the argument would go something like this, that the only tenable version of the metaphysical approach, well, sorry, the only tenable version of both approaches ends up being indistinguishable from the tenable version of the other. And one crucial factor in that, I believe, is that both stories have to do justice to our being here.
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192 Yeah. I mean, I've been thinking... You know the phrase, the thing, which I think is very bizarrely labeled, the anthropic principle.
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195 Right.
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198 Which attempts to dissolve the first of the Kantian questions by saying, because if there weren't something, we wouldn't be here to ask the question, get over it.
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201 Yes, but I think that the anthropic principle is misapplied radically because they try to understand what the world needs to be like in order to support life or inquiry or something like that.
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204 Yeah. I mean, yeah, certainly. Yeah.
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206 What little I remember of the time I heard somebody talk about this at length was Planck's constant is what it is. And the fact that if you varied it by not very much in either direction, nothing would work isn't something that needs explanation because it evidently is the case.
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209 Right.
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212 And if it weren't the case, I mean, yes, exactly. It is at least of minor theoretical interest to establish what the bounding box is within which we would still be here to ask that question. But having done that, there's nothing more to be said.
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218 But I think you're... So, I mean, I don't think that changes the availability of both projects, essentially.
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221 I think that's right. And I actually think, you know, this is... Well, I'm going to have to agree to the long rather than short.
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223 I'm assuming if I go down this pathway, but I actually think the fact... Well, as I put it, which is transparent to nobody, the ontological warrant for the epistemic fact that we use differential equations to express physical laws is actually... I mean, I don't know if I said this in the objects book, but anyway, underlies the Dysus of the world, which I think is fundamental to consciousness and self and various things like that.
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226 But because of the uncertain... No, not the uncertainty because, I mean, is this... What I remember from the objects book, which I've already apologized for is very little, is about the importance of slop.
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229 Yeah, no, that's a different thing.
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237 What's the... Rasson regardless?
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243 I'm not sure I should accept the regardless just now, but yeah, the Dysus stuff is, I think, important to self. And something else that's interesting, this is going to sound a little bit like a non-sequitur, but I think it's not for obvious reasons. The fact that LLMs are based on language is, I think, possibly consequential, but possibly not the reason for their success.
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245 Because I think the power of them stems from the fact that the relationality that they encode is so stupefyingly huge that all the content of the state of the network is bizarrely non-conceptual in the sense of that.
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248 Absolutely. I mean, they got somewhere by not being representational. Well, not being representational.
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253 Right, right. Exactly. How to say that well is not trivial, but I completely agree.
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256 Yeah, I mean, it would be useful in the indefinitely unforeseeable future to have a conversation involving Fernando Pereira about this, because... Have you ever met Fernando? Not clearly.
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259 Oh, yeah. I knew him. God knows if he was a student, but anyway, 100 years ago.
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262 No, he was our student, because I did his PhD oral. Oh, I see. No, but I think he was in California at the time of the oral, so it's possible.
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264 It doesn't matter. Anyway, he was here six months ago for a guest talk during our 60th anniversary celebrations. And the talk was interesting, but not great and not recorded.
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266 But lunch beforehand, which was just me and him and one other person, was hugely more valuable, because he was expanding to an audience that could hear of the two of us on his anger about the fact, about the impact of his own company's work, indirectly in terms of open AI, but in chat GPT and so on. Because he's recently changed within Google, being responsible for the natural language work to being responsible for the sort of theory practice interface within Google. And he's very angry about the way in which people are treating the natural language problem as having now been solved and or being soluble only by the technologies of LLMs. But what he did for us in that conversation, and I wish I had recorded it, was give me a much clearer sense of the scale of the base model. And also the scale of the priming that it gets in order to make it a question answer.
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269 Yeah. What's that called?
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272 The prompt. It's not the prompt, but it's something.
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275 Prompt engineering.
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278 Yeah. The prompt engineering is, there are three aspects of this, I think. There is the base model.
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280 [Speaker 2] (23:06 - 23:13)
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281 Right. Which is something like 100 billion gigabytes or something.
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284 Yeah. Well, it's certainly that many dimensions. And I don't know, there's this whole business about projecting to lower dimensionalities for years that I don't understand.
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286 But there's the base model. There is the make this a question answerer, make a question answerer from this base model. And there's, what do we add to the conjunction of those two from your question?
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289 And is the third of those what's called prompt engineering? I think so.
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292 But I could be wrong. It doesn't matter.
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295 Anyway. Yeah. Anyway.
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298 Even though the interesting part in a way is in a sense from the performance point of view is not the base model, but it's the thing you make a question answerer out of it with.
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301 Right. Right.
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304 Because that's what the people who don't have any money scrimp on, skimp on. Right. And why you then get things which lie and fabulate and contradict themselves and in general, or start imitating Witty Tiki Ray rather than a human being or whatever it might be.
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306 Because actually, there's another kind of farm rather than the GPU farm that you need to build something like as successful as it is as chat GPT, which is a huge farm of ordinary human beings asking questions and feeding back to the engineers the wrong answers and saying, you've got to stop this kind of answer.
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309 Right. Yeah. That's a lot of trivial.
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312 And that's an open-ended and in principle, impossible task.
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315 Right. Interesting.
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318 Anyway, that was all.
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321 A total footnote. You could have expressed your thought at the beginning of your what you just said that that's what people who scrimp skimp on.
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324 Yes. Something like that. Anyway.
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326 But so I think from your perspective, it's really GPT-3 that you're interested in, which is the base model. It's now GPT-4 and they won't tell you anything about that. The only thing we have any information about is GPT-3.
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328 Right. Well, that's the only thing I've seen published information about from Google anyway. Right.
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331 Yes. I mean, I think that's...
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334 Open AI. Sorry. Yeah.
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337 From open AI. Yeah. I think that's what I was just talking about.
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339 I mean, it doesn't prove that I'm not interested in the other ones.
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342 But I mean, it's there, for instance, that we come back to the thing that you said, which I think is why I think Dijkstra is certainly in there is not only do they not know that there's a world that not only does that 100 million gigabytes, whatever it is, 100 million gigabytes, what it doesn't have is any obligation to the world about which...
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345 Right.
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348 That is some kind of representation. Right. Yeah.
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350 But that responsibility can be decomposed in any particular instance to being only about a certain small part of the world, which amounts, I guess, in many cases, to some kind of story about reference and Dijkstra's. And it does... I am tempted to bring Jonathan back into this again, Jonathan Rees, because of his...
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352 What he's been spending the last two or three years on is trying to articulate a story about reference, which is simply defined in terms of propositions that include this are vulnerable to changes in that. That is, they include this referring expression are vulnerable to changes in that bit of the world as a way of talking about what does that referring expression refer to? Well...
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354 Because he's a radical empiricist, basically, he wants...
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357 Right.
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360 Anyway, sorry, that is taking us away now.
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363 No, not entirely, because there was a title of a talk I was thinking of putting together, something like the nonverbal meaning of words. If we talk about, not only about Sussman, but let's say, and what he meant by empirical or something, but just we talk about... Well, the things we're talking about, the three parts, the base model, the delta that turns it into a question answering machine, and the prompt engineering that turns a particular prompt into a particular prompt, basically, particular question into a particular
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