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Brian Lamb retweeted
As AI automates more and more tasks that have comprised jobs, it is more important than ever ever for people to think about how they can be useful and helpful to other people
The heart of a job is not doing a specific set of tasks, it is being useful and helpful to your employer
Useful and helpful people will always have something to do
Brian Lamb retweeted
String theory is what happens when an intelligent system is starved of sensory input and starts hallucinating. Intelligence needs grounding.
For this reason, intelligence is practically never the bottleneck to solving impactful problems. The bottleneck is iterated contact with reality.
Brian Lamb retweeted
In an age dominated by technology, in which efficiency and profit often take precedence, it is so important that we continue to cultivate a spirit of contemplation and allow time and space for beauty. Such an attitude will greatly help humanity, especially young people, to discover the ability of art to uplift and reveal the depths of the human spirit and our openness to the divine. Contemplation presents a marvelous opportunity to encounter the God who is Beauty.
Curious to hear your reactions to this:
recordalmosteverything.com/
Brian Lamb retweeted
The real effect of anthropic’s push to imbue their models with consciousness will be to reduce human consciousness to a mathematical explanation.
It won’t work in the end but before that becomes clear they will do immense damage to the sanctity of human life
Brian Lamb retweeted
Everyone tries to change other people but wants to be accepted as they are. When really, you should try to change yourself and accept other people as they are.
Brian Lamb retweeted
Oxford researchers just published a paper arguing LLMs cannot invent anything. Mathematically impossible.
The reason is simple and brutal. A model trained to predict the next word can never believe something the existing data says is wrong. And every real breakthrough in history started with exactly that belief.
In 1903 every prediction machine on Earth would have told the Wright Brothers that human flight was one to ten million years away. Nine weeks later they flew. Not because they had better data. Because they had a theory the data hadn't caught up to yet.
That is the gap between AI and human thinking. LLMs mirror the past. Humans reason into a future that doesn't exist yet. Oxford just proved mathematically that those are two different things.
I use these models every day. This matches what I see. The new stuff always comes from the human at the keyboard who decides the data is wrong.
LLMs don't think. You do.
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This paper published 2 years ago has zero mathmatical proofs in it at all. It contains no equations and is a conceptual essay. Claiming from it that anything is mathmatically proven is false and misleading.
Original paper:
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/st…
Every time a login fails this is what occurs to me.
The Odyssey is a story that reveals the paradoxes of our minds.
"Christopher Nolan’s new movie The Odyssey is apparently not very fun. It’s also very fun. It’s very woke, and also the most conservative movie in years. It contains the pathologies of contemporary filmmaking like colorless grey filters, and also it is an old-fashioned movie, shot with minimal computerized special effects on 70mm film, but it’s also the first movie to ever be fully shot in IMAX. It is alien and reflective of Bronze Age culture (xenia, renamed as Zeus’s law) and also somehow steeped in modern Christian-inspired ethics (the Golden Rule) and involving modern themes like PTSD and angst about civilizational collapse. It is historically inaccurate, completely getting wrong the aesthetics of the Homeric setting, which is not a setting you can be accurate about since it was never part of history. It is based on the controversial translation by Emily Wilson, but Emily Wilson didn’t love it and also it turns out that it is not actually based on the controversial translation by Emily Wilson."
The most amusing review of Odyssey is by @etiennefd, who hasn't even seen it (yet)!
hopefulmons.com/p/pre-watch-…
Brian Lamb retweeted
The innateness of personality is obvious in kids because they haven't yet had the time to undergo any meaningful environment-induced (or self-induced) change. They express their raw nature.
However, I believe that experience shapes personality significantly over the long term, especially between the ages of ~15 and ~25. I also believe that people are capable of deliberately building themselves, choosing to alter their own personalities through a wide range of means. The person you were born as doesn't have to be the person you die as.
