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David Chalmers draws a direct parallel positioning LeCun relative to LLMs as Marcus stands to deep learning after Marcus posed a question about uncredited adoption of long-held ideas

Marcus's original post did not name any individual.

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seriou question: how do you handle an intellectual doppelganger who has systematically started adopting every position you have argued for for 30 years while presenting each idea as if it were his own? nothing in graduate school prepared me for this.

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@GaryMarcus simple. lecun stands to LLMs as marcus stands to deep learning. insofar as we're in a world where increasingly deep learning ≈ LLMs, increasingly lecun ≈ marcus.

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seriou question: how do you handle an intellectual doppelganger who has systematically started adopting every position you have argued for for 30 years while presenting each idea as if it were his own? nothing in graduate school prepared me for this.

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