Determined: Life Without Free Will is a misguided attempt at moral reasoning based on scientific facts. Lacking a philosophical framework that can establish connections between morality and science, the author relied on his own rather lenient intuition without realizing it. One might also say that he is another victim who...
If test-time scaling right now is only bound by computation, then OpenAI could potentially invest billions, or even tens of billions, in test-time computation for a very specific purpose - solving test-time algorithm problem, e.g. improve CoT search. In another sentence, while improving efficiency is important, we just need it to be efficient enough to be able to run it on a huge cluster disregarding the test-time cost, then we can use that extremely expensive but very smart intelligence to improve the efficiency and cost.
Assuming O3 high can be scale up another 4 OOM more compute to reach ASI level intelligence, then Open AI... (read more)
Determined: Life Without Free Will is a misguided attempt at moral reasoning based on scientific facts. Lacking a philosophical framework that can establish connections between morality and science, the author relied on his own rather lenient intuition without realizing it. One might also say that he is another victim who falls on false philosophical questions. This review contains two parts: a negative part criticizing the book at the principle level and a positive part trying to tackle the dilemma of determinism.
Sapolsky conceptualizes 'free will' as a governing element inside a body, free from physical laws, thereby qualifying it as supernatural. This intuitive definition is not inherently... (read 1820 more words →)