Consider a (hyper) box of available knowledge. Knowledge includes skills and
descriptions of experiences. We live our lives visiting different but
overlapping small parts of this box. LLMs vacuum-up more knowledge than any
one person can consume or create. With steadily increasing fidelit
You reported Claude reacting yesterday, changing how it imported a math
function into JavaScript.
I often use "git diff" with Claude to let it take a crack at what changed in a
codebase to cause a bug. Claude is happy to read diffs.
Imagine instead of "git diff", "world diff". Those dif
In Alex Garland's Civil War, the protagonists remark on people in the heartland
that are “trying to pretend this isn’t happening". IRL, with both Trump 1.0
and 2.0 I recall people saying they would stop reading the news until the
country returned to normal. It seems there are examples of peop
A very personal narrative that you might not want to engage. If so, please
simply ignore and delete.
Centers on the question of AI “intelligence/consciousness.”
1-I started reading by the age of four, mostly comic books (some were
quasi-non-fiction, like *Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land
But Roger's point still stands, AFAIK. I can imagine some group has allocated
the resources to an LLM to simply explore, say, mathematics with a APIs to
things like Sage, Lean, et al. All it would take is for some importation of a
real random number that pricks the LLM to go query the APIs with
On 2/13/25 11:33 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
Consider a (hyper) box of available knowledge. Knowledge includes
skills and descriptions of experiences. We live our lives visiting
different but overlapping small parts of this box.
I've been ideating on LLMs as high dimensional information ma
Propositions:
1) Musk is an accelerationist that wants to redirect federal funds to things he
thinks are worthy. This has the convenient overlap with his business
endeavors. Trump (and gullible Americans) were the means to do that.
Medicare, Social Security, veterans benefits, education, fo
Marcus -
I think you explicate the nut of the Musk-Trump axis here.
I'm guessing there is an equally succinct/pithy version for the
Trump/Putin axis.
- Steve
Propositions:
1) Musk is an accelerationist that wants to redirect federal funds to
things he thinks are worthy. This has the co
On 2/13/25 12:39 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
"Elon really wants to save the world - but only if it's him who does it."
-- Sam Altman
and save it in his own image (that one impressed on him by too much "old
fashioned future" SciFi?)
I sometimes worry that Musk in his "autism-spectrum" affect a
The hazards of adult life have distanced me somewhat from these drivers, but I
remember as a young adult often staying up all night to make progress on a
project or just because I felt like the relevant facts were hot in cache.
One could imagine within or across datacenter migrating work acco
On 2/13/25 1:34 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
The hazards of adult life have distanced me somewhat from these drivers, but I
remember as a young adult often staying up all night to make progress on a
project or just because I felt like the relevant facts were hot in cache.
One could imagine withi
glen wrote:
But what the LLMs don't yet have, I think, is that interestingness
drive, the willingness to destroy ourselves merely to find something,
anything *interesting*. For interestingness, we're willing to open the
surprisal flood gates and risk our entire minds/bodies to be destroyed
..
I want to like Musk. At one point I did, for the reasons mentioned above. I
am suspicious that his neuro-link is malfunctioning and destroying his
empathy. That being said, I am hopeful that he brings the metric system to
the USA, and somehow doesn't end up in charge of the nuclear weapons
arsenal
"Elon really wants to save the world - but only if it's him who does it."
-- Sam Altman
From: Friam On Behalf Of cody dooderson
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While I agree about many of us thinking the analogy is weaker than it is, I disagree that
the surprisal registered by Claude when it was working for a clean evaluation is similar
to our surprisal minimization. Dave tried to address this with his comment about
hallucinogens in contrast to positi
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