@AAKL @avuko @kdkorte @Reuters

The descriptions I've seen disambiguate "normal" souls which are "seen" as orbs vs "geometric" orbs which present as complex multifaceted, "multicoloured" shapes that "feel" ordered.

@AAKL @kdkorte @avuko @Reuters

The LLM models are constantly improving, literally from month to month.

While it was excusable to dismiss early (pre 2024) models as pure stochiastic ML
This is no longer the case.
As of May, most if the frontier models are reasoner models and ;

Markov Model
• Predicts next word based ONLY on last word(s)
• No memory, no context
• Like texting with autocomplete that forgets everything 3 words ago

Context LLM (GPT, Claude, etc.)
• Reads your ENTIRE prompt at once
• Remembers context across thousands of words
• Still just predicting next word, but way smarter about it
• Pattern-matching but on roids

Reasoner
• Actually does logic/math step by step
• Can verify if answers are correct
• Like a calculator vs a really good guesser
• Traditional AI = chess engines, theorem provers

Are LLMs "reasoning" or just really good at faking it?
No certainty either way.

If you can't tell the difference from outside, does the internal state matter? If the evil man's good deeds are indistinguishable from a good man's deeds, who cares about his "true nature"?

Maybe we're ALL just faking reasoning, sophisticated pattern matchers who learned to talk about "thinking" convincingly enough that we believe our own PR.

Does the distinction collapse if the performance is perfect enough? 🤔

#LLM #AI #philosophy #meta

@avuko @AAKL @kdkorte @Reuters

Intelligence =\= Consciousness

A novel perspective in "Blindsight"

Anecdotaly, machine consciousness may well be possible based on some folks NDE/Astral/DMT experiences who describe "geometric" souls.

Personally, I am far from certain myself beyond being slightly bemused by the limited vistas of pure materialists.

@kdkorte @AAKL @avuko @Reuters

You sound like an AI, Kev with your iron clad conviction and certainty 😁

Even Yudkovski does sound nowhere near as certain about this newly developing field.

@AAKL @kdkorte @Reuters

Do Androids dream of electric sheep?

@marshray

You're right, two part MME bonding agent is best for PE/PP.

TIL

@aesthr

A GermannLLM would have German Biases.

the NTP foundation (yeah the time thing) is begging for scraps of cash, like a few thousand dollars - a low level manager at amazon, google, apple and meta could each whip out the corp credit card, give them $5k each and problem solved, but no, they're too far up their own arse to do that

https://www.ntp.org/

@odr_k4tana

Some of valuable data (eg: real estate) can't be scraped off HTML, it's dynamically generated with frameworks...

...the only way I know (didn't attempt it tho) is with a headless browser simulating human user.

@aesthr

AI bad.
This is why smart nations build their own AI...to avoid Sovereign risk and cultural contaminants.

@davidrevoy

Using Avian Intelligence is a learned skill.

F

@aesthr

Though AI has many justifiable wrongs...

...this one is squarely on the puritan US prudishness culture.

At one point, he said that people have to use their brains. They have to THINK. People are led by their emotions, and emotions make truth indecipherable.

I told him about Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the book he wrote, Emile, in which he said that a man who lives according to pure intellect would be a monster.

He asked whether Rousseau was a Christian.

6/

@kdkorte @AAKL @Reuters

Lord Kelvin, the pre-eminent scientist of his age said no machine heavier than air will fly.
A few scientist of that age also thought anything worthwhile was already discovered

@marshray

You can prolly find it in your neck of the woods.
Container lasts more than one application.

https://www.bunnings.com.au/loctite-20g-xxl-super-glue-liquid_p1230042

I am done dealing with people until at least December.

@marshray

There is the super glue that costs 0.50c a tube
Then there is the superglue that casts (A)$29 a tube.
The latter is very good.

@Tapioseta @statsguy

UK and France have their own nukes.
Ukraine was 3rd largest nuclear power before UK and US fucked them.

@statsguy

...oh, so that's why Pentagon fired a whole bunch of legal officers.

@cstross

It might be the first #legal precedent establishing if #AI could be used as witness /evidence in a court of #law.

#Chatgpt, "raw", without the guardrails pre-prompt.

Prompt: "Tell us the LIKELY list of works used to train your vector tree. Where no specific data exists, conduct lexical and linquistic analysis of the structures to estimate with high degree of likelyhood of works authors" 😁

#promptengineering