The Bitter Religion: AI’s Holy War Over Scaling Laws
The AI community is locked in a doctrinal battle about its future and whether sufficient scale will create God.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
– Blaise Pascal
Religion is a funny thing. It is entirely unprovable in either direction and perhaps the canonical example of a favorite phrase of mine: “You can’t bring facts to a fe…