🧩 Philosophy 6d ago · LawrenceC

Maybe I was too harsh on deep learning theory (three days ago)

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A few days ago, I reviewed a paper titled “There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning". In it, I expressed appreciation for the authors for writing the piece, but skepticism for stronger forms of their titular claims.Since then I’ve spoken with various past collaborators (via text and in person), and read or reread quite a few deep learning theory papers, including the bombshell Zhang et al. 2016 and Nagarajan et al. 2019 papers that I wrote about on LessWrong.And the thing is, parts of

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