dr_dshiv

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1711.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
> About as good as you can get without collecting new data. So let’s call holdout datasets “second-best practice”?
1712.
Design thinking was supposed to fix the world. Where did it go wrong?(technologyreview.com)
2 points by dr_dshiv 4y ago|0 comments
1713.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
Perhaps that prehistoric cave painting does show psilocybin mushrooms. That makes it even more crazy that there is no historical evidence for their use again until 1957– even though, as you point out— multiple species of psilocybin mushroom
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Inflatable Moon Habitat(space.com)
2 points by dr_dshiv 4y ago|0 comments
1715.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
Crazy but there is no historical evidence (text or images) of psilocybin mushroom use in Europe, prior to 1957. So hard to believe, but we simply don’t have evidence otherwise…
1716.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
And why would mathematics not be a road to intelligence?
1717.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
Right. I don’t see why human-level AI is the criteria for AGI. I think we can have weak AGI, potentially long before we have strong AGI. We need clear benchmarks, otherwise it turns into theology.
1718.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
I had to read it multiple times before I understood why it was a test of understanding. It is a riddle.
1719.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
I had to read that 3-4 times before I understood that it was a riddle. So I put it in GPT3–and it got the answer right away: “Mike's mother had 4 kids; 3 of them are named Luis, Drake and Matilda. What is the name of the 4th kid? The
1720.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
The author says: “Large Language Models don’t understand anything — and they can’t get better at something they can’t do.” Yet, LLM’s can understand (unless one claims that understanding requires consciousness): https://arxiv.org
1721.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
In the hands of kids, old smart phones are not obsolete so long as they can play games: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2470654.2481379
1722.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
“development on this model will not lead to General Intelligence, which is not a data training/stat problem altogether” Why is everyone so damn sure about this? Not to pick on you—I’ve read so many self-backpatting comments that feel t
1723.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
I do! So long as we don’t appeal to consciousness as the basis for understanding but measure it with benchmarks, LLMs understand many things. Maetschke, S., Iraola, D. M., Barnard, P., Shafiei Bavani, E., Zhong, P., Xu, Y., & Yepes, A.
1724.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
Early AGI. Right?
1725.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
Yes. It is obviously already weak AGI (obvious to anyone if they saw it 20 years ago). It is also obvious that we are in the middle of a shift of some kind. Very hard to see from within, but clearly we will look back at 2022 as the beginn
1726.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
“By “meditating” I mostly mean sitting around with my eyes closed. I haven’t done any research at all on what meditation is supposed to be. Apparently there’s a million different styles of it, so I’m just going to go ahead and call what I d
1727.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
There is so little known for sure about Pythagoras — and yet so much value in his story. The guy is a legend— and due uncertainty gets in the way of a good story. The more I read about him, the better and better it gets.
1728.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
Not sourced. Wikipedia has sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippasus
1729.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
His father, Mnesarchus, was a jeweler and trader from Tyre. Source: Neanthes of Cyzicus, historian, 3rd c. B.C referenced in Porphyry’s “Life of Pythagoras”
1730.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
Back in the early 00s, the “Digital Promise” org sought to set aside some spectral “land” to support digital education, just as the western reserve set aside land for public education. I thought it was a brilliant idea. https://t
1731.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
Pythagoras was Syrian, fwiw. He was also inclusive AF. Female Pythagorean philosophers (Miya, Damo, etc), multiethnic Pythagorean philosophers (Abaris), plus, his whole thing was incorporating diverse wisdom from multiple cultural sources—
1732.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
I believe he built the “Cognitive Arts” company for learning software. That was an early influence on my own company. So I remember when I met him and showed him our games for teaching kids fractions. His response: “why the hell should we t
1733.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
It takes about 10 minutes and then your brain learns to read it semifluently. FYI.
1734.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
& that’s why I’m really surprised why people don’t take geoengineering more seriously. Like, if the climate naturally changed, we’d need to do it also. So why not now?
1735.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
So an 18 hour long token window is acceptable as AGI, I like it.
1736.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
Nice list. 1. Understanding— provided this isn’t based on consciousness but benchmarks — appears present in text, but yes, GPT3 can’t do images or video yet 2. Is there some number of tokens that would be AGI? Of course it can remember thin
1737.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
What would be the difference between GPT3 and actual AGI? (Want to make sure we don’t keep moving goalposts)
1738.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
I really disagree with the implication. It’s not like Hitler or the slavers were well read in their Greek philosophy. Traditionally — and I hope going into the future — the classical works of western civ have been a source of enduring liber
1739.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
Right! And those things will happen naturally, because it is in people’s best interest. Cars are about 1/5 of US emissions. Switching to electric will reduce that by 1/3. http://https//www.transportenvironment
1740.
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
Sure seems tough to convince people to voluntarily consume less. Relying on that as a strategy seems… fraught.

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