thelightherder

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   by thelightherder 4y ago

   I'd like to address some of the comments I've read on here and on my blogspot about this interaction I had with GPT-3. Some folks are saying how it learned so fast, deduced, maybe as fast or even faster than a human, what I was ta
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   by thelightherder 4y ago

   Yeah - this is something I discovered at UCSC in 1988, and for a few years I carried a mini tape recorder around everywhere with the sound of several dollars in quarters dropping into a payphone (recorded on to tape from the receiver of my
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   GPT-3 fails horribly, then I coax it into figuring out how to phreak a payphone(theblorgonchronicles.blogspot.com)

   44 points by thelightherder 4y ago|17 comments
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   Fractals made in real-time with just video feedback(youtube.com)

   3 points by thelightherder 4y ago|0 comments
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   by thelightherder 4y ago

   Updated
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   by thelightherder 4y ago

   I was thinking at a certain point, future computers may become so advanced and powerful that they will be able to handle many aspects of society and civilization without any human involvement or supervision. In such a scenario, humans would
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   Closer to the Singularity?(Experiments in Machine Learning Galaxie 500 Edition)(youtube.com)

   4 points by thelightherder 4y ago|4 comments
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   by thelightherder 5y ago

   Check out the Video Feedback Fractal Contraption at https://www.thelightherder.com . I'll be going on the road with this to show it at LEAF, April 23rd.
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   See LightHerder Video Feedback Device at the Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival(leafcolorado.org)

   1 points by thelightherder 5y ago|1 comments
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    by thelightherder 5y ago

    I started by pointing a camera at CRT TVs many years ago, and for a long time wanted to be able to do that with HD monitors (and, of course, HD TVs don't have the all-important knobs needed to create controlled feedback). It was findin
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    by thelightherder 5y ago

    I recommend Douglas Hofstadter's books Gödel, Escher, Bach (where I first read about video feedback) and I Am A Strange Loop. "The core intellectual claim, then, is much the same as that of Gödel, Escher, Bach: namely, that a prop
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    by thelightherder 5y ago

    I totally agree there is something important going on with feedback loops and the brain (and vision, and the mind) - especially loops made of loops (made of loops). I wrote something up around 2010 on my thoughts about all this stuff when I
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    by thelightherder 5y ago

    No, I get it. All fair points on your side too. Also - thanks for posting this, much appreciated!
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    by thelightherder 5y ago

    I wrote this in the comments below, but - asking why it's not done in software is like asking a painter why they don't just use a camera and take a photograph.
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    by thelightherder 5y ago

    Oh - this was not easy, or cheap, that's fer sure. Lots of over anylising here. It's art, ya know?
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    by thelightherder 5y ago

    I'm not sure if you're just joking here (I suspect you are) - but, I say no computers because a computer didn't create these images, you know, with software. Yeah, there's electronics involved, of course.
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    by thelightherder 5y ago

    Yeah - asking "why wasn't this software" is like asking a painter why they didn't just take a photograph. This is art, folks. TehCorwiz knows what's up. A contraption is always more cool than software.