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references these two topics. I suspect the phrase itself in this case is a shitpost taking aim at some of the absurd bullshit TESCREALists come up with in their nonsensegabble, but ...... it is also the kind of nonsensegabble that some of them may unironically post
(related tangent: @cstross' Singularity series is a pretty fun topical dive about this, and he's been following these nutjobs for probably close to 3 decades now)
is it cynical that i find the idea of a "latent space" a bit goofy? may just be because i think data science is kind of a joke and much machine learning is "we threw shit at our model but don't know what a category error is"
like it's just dimensionality reduction with new vocab?