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Any ones you recommend?

DonHopkins 9mo ago
Minsky's key works on this: "K-lines: A Theory of Memory" (1980) -- Cognitive Science. Names as activation vectors that reactivate entire constellations of knowledge. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0364021380800140 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03640... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-line_(artificial_intelligence) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-line_(artificial_intelligenc... "Society of Mind" (1986) -- The full theory. Intelligence as emergent property of many simple agents. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Society-Of-Mind/Marvin-Minsky/9780671657130 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Society-Of-Mind/Marvi... https://archive.org/details/societyofmind0000marv/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/societyofmind0000marv/mode/2up "The Emotion Machine" (2006) -- Extends Society of Mind to emotions as "ways of thinking." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emotion_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emotion_Machine "The question is not whether intelligent machines can have any emotions, but whether machines can be intelligent without any emotions." -- Marvin Minsky https://philopedia.org/thinkers/marvin-lee-minsky/ https://philopedia.org/thinkers/marvin-lee-minsky/ For LLM multi-agent work: "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior" (Park et al., Stanford, 2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442 https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442 The connection keyle is making -- same LLM, different professional profiles -- is exactly Minsky's insight. The profile IS a K-line: "geologist" activates {rock strata, deep time, fieldwork, skepticism...} I wrote up how this applies to LLMs, including The Sims zodiac signs (1997: zero code, perceived as "too influential"): Sims Astrology: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/designs/sims-astrology.md https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/designs/sims-a... Society of Mind: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/society-of-mind/README.md https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/society... K-Lines https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/k-lines/README.md https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/k-lines... Adversarial Comittee: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/adversarial-committee/README.md https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/adversa... The punchline: one voice is the wrong number of voices. When you ask a single LLM "Should I take this client?", you get the statistical center of all possible viewpoints -- hedged, cautious, anodyne. The centroid of the cloud, not the shape of the cloud. An adversarial comittee with Maya would say: "Trap. Their scope creep is a red flag." Frankie would say: "The opportunity! The growth!" Vic would say: "Show me the financials." A single voice smooths all these into one bland answer. Adversarial committees force the LLM to explore the actual distribution of perspectives. MOOLLM Manifesto: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/designs/MOOLLM-MANIFESTO.md https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/designs/MOOLLM... MOOLLM Eval Incarnate Framework: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/designs/MOOLLM-EVAL-INCARNATE-FRAMEWORK.md https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/designs/MOOLLM...

Minsky's key works on this: "K-lines: A Theory of Memory" (1980) -- Cognitive Science. Names as activation vectors that reactivate entire constellations of knowledge. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0364021380800140 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03640... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-line_(artificial_intelligence) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-line_(artificial_intelligenc... "Society of Mind" (1986) -- The full theory. Intelligence as emergent property of many simple agents. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Society-Of-Mind/Marvin-Minsky/9780671657130 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Society-Of-Mind/Marvi... https://archive.org/details/societyofmind0000marv/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/societyofmind0000marv/mode/2up "The Emotion Machine" (2006) -- Extends Society of Mind to emotions as "ways of thinking." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emotion_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emotion_Machine "The question is not whether intelligent machines can have any emotions, but whether machines can be intelligent without any emotions." -- Marvin Minsky https://philopedia.org/thinkers/marvin-lee-minsky/ https://philopedia.org/thinkers/marvin-lee-minsky/ For LLM multi-agent work: "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior" (Park et al., Stanford, 2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442 https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442 The connection keyle is making -- same LLM, different professional profiles -- is exactly Minsky's insight. The profile IS a K-line: "geologist" activates {rock strata, deep time, fieldwork, skepticism...} I wrote up how this applies to LLMs, including The Sims zodiac signs (1997: zero code, perceived as "too influential"): Sims Astrology: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/designs/sims-astrology.md https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/designs/sims-a... Society of Mind: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/society-of-mind/README.md https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/society... K-Lines https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/k-lines/README.md https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/k-lines... Adversarial Comittee: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/adversarial-committee/README.md https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/skills/adversa... The punchline: one voice is the wrong number of voices. When you ask a single LLM "Should I take this client?", you get the statistical center of all possible viewpoints -- hedged, cautious, anodyne. The centroid of the cloud, not the shape of the cloud. An adversarial comittee with Maya would say: "Trap. Their scope creep is a red flag." Frankie would say: "The opportunity! The growth!" Vic would say: "Show me the financials." A single voice smooths all these into one bland answer. Adversarial committees force the LLM to explore the actual distribution of perspectives. MOOLLM Manifesto: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/designs/MOOLLM-MANIFESTO.md https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/designs/MOOLLM... MOOLLM Eval Incarnate Framework: https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/designs/MOOLLM-EVAL-INCARNATE-FRAMEWORK.md https://github.com/SimHacker/moollm/blob/main/designs/MOOLLM...