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The overwhelming majority of all human advancement is in the form of interpolation. Real extrapolation is extremely rare and most don't even know when it's happ

The overwhelming majority of all human advancement is in the form of interpolation. Real extrapolation is extremely rare and most don't even know when it's happening. This is why it's extremely hypocritical for artists of any sort to be upset about Generative AI. Their own minds are doing the same exact thing they get upset about the model doing. This is why fundamental "interpolative" techniques like ChatGPT (whose weights are in theory frozen) is still basically super-intelligent.

polotics 3y ago
Wow you appear to know a great deal about how human minds work: "doing the same exact thing they get upset about the model doing"... May I query you put up a list of publications on the subject of how minds work?
- Der_Einzige 3y ago
  My insights are widely accepted theories from various fields, all available in the public domain. It's a well-understood concept that our minds function by making sense of the world through patterns. This is the essence of interpolation - taking two known points and making an educated guess about what lies in between. Ever caught yourself finishing someone's sentence in your mind before they do? That's your brain extrapolating based on previous patterns of speech and context. These processes are at the heart of human creativity. The field of Cognitive Science has extensively documented our tendency for interpolation and pattern recognition. Works like The Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation by Markman and Klein, or even "How Creativity Works in the Brain" by the National Endowment for the Arts all attest to this. When artists create, they draw from their experiences, their knowledge, their understanding of the world - a process overwhelmingly of interpolation. Now, I can see how you might be confused about my reference to ChatGPT being "super-intelligent". Perhaps "hyper-competent" would be more appropriate? It has the ability to generate text that appears intelligent because it's interpolating from a massive amount of data - far more than any human could consciously process. It's the ultimate pattern finder. And that, my friend, is my version of "publications on the subject of how minds work." I may not be an illustrious scholar, but hey, even a clock is right twice a day! And who knows, maybe I'm on to something after all.

polotics 3y ago

Wow you appear to know a great deal about how human minds work: "doing the same exact thing they get upset about the model doing"... May I query you put up a list of publications on the subject of how minds work?

Der_Einzige 3y ago
My insights are widely accepted theories from various fields, all available in the public domain. It's a well-understood concept that our minds function by making sense of the world through patterns. This is the essence of interpolation - taking two known points and making an educated guess about what lies in between. Ever caught yourself finishing someone's sentence in your mind before they do? That's your brain extrapolating based on previous patterns of speech and context. These processes are at the heart of human creativity. The field of Cognitive Science has extensively documented our tendency for interpolation and pattern recognition. Works like The Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation by Markman and Klein, or even "How Creativity Works in the Brain" by the National Endowment for the Arts all attest to this. When artists create, they draw from their experiences, their knowledge, their understanding of the world - a process overwhelmingly of interpolation. Now, I can see how you might be confused about my reference to ChatGPT being "super-intelligent". Perhaps "hyper-competent" would be more appropriate? It has the ability to generate text that appears intelligent because it's interpolating from a massive amount of data - far more than any human could consciously process. It's the ultimate pattern finder. And that, my friend, is my version of "publications on the subject of how minds work." I may not be an illustrious scholar, but hey, even a clock is right twice a day! And who knows, maybe I'm on to something after all.