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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM
On Mon, Feb 24, 2025, 4:27 PM Marcus Daniels wrote:
> If a LLM had constant inputs from cameras, microphones, chemical sensors,
> and sensiomotor feedback, and was continuously training and performing
>
What is special, if anything, about organisms that have nervous systems built
on organic chemistry that could enable something else?
From: Friam on behalf of Frank Wimberly
Date: Monday, February 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM]
It's increasingly difficult not to include many of our most elite
institutions as willing participants under the MAGA umbrella. Here's a
link to one of numerous examples published a year ago. It took the
students to publish a rebuke. And I'll be damned, the university has gone
and done it again
Actually I don't care much about views or traffic. I don't think many people
read it except the ones from this list. But I like discussions about
interesting topics. I mentioned the blog post here because I wasn't sure if I
have (maybe unconsciously) stolen an idea from one of you. Humans often
If a LLM had constant inputs from cameras, microphones, chemical sensors, and
sensiomotor feedback, and was continuously training and performing inference,
could it have free will?
From: Friam On Behalf Of Jochen Fromm
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2025 1:08 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Com
New Claude release today!
I inquired:
As long as you are prompted to respond, and there are not artificial limits
imposed on your responses, you would response to noise, no? How would those
responses be any different than the claims of agency by humans?
Claude Sonnet 3.7 responds:
“You're ma
I quote from Andrej Karpathy's post
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1894099637218545984
I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive
cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession
with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantl
