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Countries are created by adults and destroyed by children, and that's the normal stage of progress. The metaphorical adults, or the great souls, are experienced, self-directed and inspired by a vision of the great future. They know whe
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The difference between imitation and reasoning can be made more clear if we switch from language to numbers: 1 3 7 15 31 63 ... How do you continue this sequence? What's the 1000000th number in this sequence? Imitation continues
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LLMs can't evaluate their own output. LLMs suggest possibilities, but can't evaluate them. Imagine an insane man who is rumbling something smart, but doesn't self-reflect. The evaluation is done against some framework of valu
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In the corpo's lingo, engagement = addiction.
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If you asked this "AI" to draw a possible continuation of a fictional map, it would draw something very believable and everyone would understand that this map and its continuation is a fiction. No one would try to say that the con
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Interactive ads and interactive porn are the AI killer apps we miss so much.
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There is a more detailed prophecy of these events: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Masih_ad-Dajjal "The Dajjal will imitate the miracles performed by Jesus, such as healing the sick and raising the dead, the la
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The rich is firmly attached to wordly things, they would rather sink with their gold than let it go. The monk that you've described is attached to his self by training it with sophisticated hardships. He hoards inner peace just like th
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That's DRM essentially: watch, but do not copy. Except that in this case the corporations do piracy.
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Recently I came across Quake implemented within a single WebGL shader ( https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lsKfWd ), but this is another level. HTML/CSS is a programming language now.
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HN's dry text-only design is what repels most of the problems. Mods only polish it a bit.
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It's also interesting that our nature is mostly made of four elements (H, C, N, O) and physics stands on four fundamental forces.
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This made me think that the near future will be LLMs trained specifically on Linux or another large project. The source code is a small part of the dataset fed to LLMs. The more interesting is runtime data flow, similar to what we observe i
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AI will be the great divider of humanity. It's one of those ideas that can't be ignored or waited out, and everyone will need to take a decisive stance on it. Human civilization and machine civilization won't coexist for long
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Math needs to be this way for precision. There are dozens of "conversions of signal into frequencies" besides Fourier transform: Z-transform, Laplace tansform, Wigner transform and so on. Normal language deals with few concepts, m
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Reducing the nature to "the same digital bits", seeing it as a mechanism, is precisely the soulless nature of tech that the normies are worried about, and it's probably why the nerds who are too immersed in tech are so social
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IMO, he's right. LLMs can't be AI because they don't create a model of observations to predict things, they just imitate observations based on their likeness to each other. When you play Quake, you create a simple model of th
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AI creation is more like Alchemy than science, and breakthroughs come not from math background, but from intuition and a bit of math skills. Transformers behind the chatbots isn't a rocket science and were discovered almost by accident
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At the scale of a cell, magnetic field becomes like water - a real tangible thing that dominates physics. We have a bunch of formulas that explain the magnetic field, but we lack intuitive understanding that's gained with practice. Thi
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"Rent a brain for only $250/mo"
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The God of science is the Theory of Everything that unifies all forces under one set of closed-form equations, that this theory can be understood by our minds, and can be used to predict observations. When these assumptions are declared the
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Downvotes is the natural allergic reaction to alien ideas. Science to many isn't just a theory equal among others, but a religion, a part of their identity that they are very defensive about. The core postulate of this religion is that
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Portraits are like long exposure photos where the artist watches a person and captures the right elements at the right moments.
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Ock ohem octei wies barsoom?
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Why is it the way it is? God knows. The only difference is today's biologists have replaced God with DNA - the almighty molecule that knows everything about humans.
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It's the assumption that in our world, a machine civilization is an almost certain end. This might explain the Fermi paradox that we haven't seen other civilization in the universe: each builds an AI that decides to go radio offli
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If we assume that the many worlds interpretation has a basis in reality, then we can consider the following metaphysical angle. The evolution around us is our world line with the physical laws we are familiar with. And indeed the natural an
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That's 1 year ahead of the ai-2027.com schedule.
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> Some may see this as manipulation Because it is the dark art of manipulation for middle managers. This art boils down to creating a false reality to everyone who matters: you tell one set of lies to Bob, tailored to his personality, an
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And maybe 200 if you're using AC.

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