Context by beforeword · separate from the sent text
Why this letter was written
What prompted the letter
The letter places reported action-recognition results alongside the quoted description of V-JEPA as a step toward a more grounded understanding of the world.
Why this matters to readers
Readers need to see how an account of performance on a specific task connects to a broader claim about understanding.
What the letter asks
The letter asks for the criterion connecting the two and an explanation of why it applies here. It also proposes keeping that criterion and its written justification open to examination.
Sent letter · English transcription
The letter
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Dear Professor LeCun,
Meta’s article of 15 February 2024 quotes you calling V-JEPA “a step toward a more grounded understanding of the world”.
Please indicate the criterion connecting the reported action-recognition results to that formulation, and the grounds for applying it here.
beforeword proposes keeping three elements separately inspectable: what is written, what it is read as showing, and the grounds offered for accepting that reading.
Here, the proposed examination concerns both the written account of task performance and its interpretation as progress toward understanding.
The criterion and its written justification remain further formulations whose interpretation and grounds can also be examined. The same examination applies to human self-descriptions and to this letter.
The reading procedure and worked examples:
https://beforeword.xyz/model/en/
Kirill Shebetov
beforeword
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Publications discussed in the letter
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V-JEPA: The next step toward Yann LeCun’s vision of advanced machine intelligence (AMI)
Meta AI, 15 February 2024. LeCun’s quotation immediately before Video JEPA in focus.
The Meta article about the original V-JEPA discussed in the letter.
Sending record and files
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