Who says I am optimistic? Your remark about data centers for LLMs, Bitcoins and
other stuff like TikTok videos which increase global warming is accurate.I
believe we are heading towards a collapse (!) of civilization (!!) in 10 or 20
years, not only because of climate change, but because our res
Dave corrected it in a subsequent post:
On 1/14/25 09:15, Prof David West wrote:
excuse me, Pieter's optimisim, not Hochen's
On 1/15/25 14:39, Jochen Fromm wrote:
Who says I am optimistic? Your remark about data centers for LLMs, Bitcoins and
other stuff like TikTok videos which increase gl
In my book Theory of Nothing, I predict a population collapse this
century (with better than even odds). This was with nothing more than
anthropic reasoning.
A major population decline is baked in through the demographic
transition anyway.
The question is can our civilisation survive this? I'm op
I'm all for speculation about what the future holds; it's something I
engage in frequently. Yet, the current AI revolution, with its profound
implications for societal structures, underscores the reality that society
functions as a complex adaptive system. This recognition makes it evident
that any
Yeah. Ordinarily, I would agree. But Neal did his time, contributed his fair
share to the training data. Now we have LLMs that can generate the ideas some
of us might find value in. I grant that there are prolly *great* writers that
Claude or whatever can't replace. But most people's writing su
If one sets the temperature of a LLM to zero, it will be deterministic.
Conversations LLMs have with other LLMs running at zero temperature will be
deterministic subject to variations in congestion in their network
connectivity. Make the temperature higher, but use a controlled and coordinated
I've been thinking about it during breakfast this morning. Fits to the title of
the thread. I would say at the moment LLMs do not have free will. But we could
imagine AI agents that have a free will. Let us say we build an AI agent that
has two directives: the first is to be a helpful assistant
"Life is that which wills amongst that which wills to live" ?
Citizenship or not, at least "life", and i believe (unfounded or at
least unattributable) that the above applies more acutely when "amongst
near peers". Baleen whales which live on krill, for example exhibit
*their* strongest *li
