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>It’s like listening to a mad scientist connect totally unrelated (seemingly) events. Why a mad scientist and not a mad junkie? Or just some clueless language
by trasz4 3y ago
>It’s like listening to a mad scientist connect totally unrelated (seemingly) events.
Why a mad scientist and not a mad junkie? Or just some clueless language model, artificial or not? I think we tend to make this assumption that things that seem complicated _are_ complicated, and not just random bs, and that assumption no longer holds.
>E.g., I don’t at all understand the linkage between current events and the schism between the Catholic Church and Protestants denoms.
Hadn't read it, but let me guess, is it about how Gutenberg changed the society's interconnection fabric, and it triggered Thirty Year's War, and the same fabric remodeling thing is happening right now? :)
- Sai_ 3y ago> Hadn't read it, but let me guess, is it about how Gutenberg changed the society's interconnection fabric, and it triggered Thirty Year's War, and the same fabric remodeling thing is happening right now? :) Yes, there is some reference to the evolution of the principle of national sovereignty which came from the disruption of the Catholic Church and how that ties to Europe trying to regulate AI advances coming out of America. Like you said, he could just as well be an organic LLM.
- trasz4 3y ago>Europe trying to regulate AI advances coming out of America. That's just an attempt to prevent technical colonisation. An analogy would be Japan and China trying to fence off missionaries. Protestantism was about something different: decentralisation. And in that regard there's no difference between Google and their competitors - it's all strictly centralised; nothing Protestant about it. Having properly Open Source models would be protestant. And EU regulations should help it happen by reducing the incentives for centralised ones.