Stefan Kelly

natural and artificial minds

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struggling to see why steven pinker's views matter, this isn't a man with power of the meaningful kind

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@WillowChem beautiful decor

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Found this pretty lazy in the MIT tech review. And another reason why I’m a bit put off by any AI discourse that focuses so much on any specific word as a mark of progress/threat, even if in this case I ended up agreeing with his larger points around creativity. This article tries to show that LLMs don’t ‘reason’. Observe:

1. Vague appeals to authority i.e. ‘a scientist’. What is a scientist?
2. If you get to decide what words mean, i.e. decide what counts as shortcomings to a definition of reasoning, then of course your argument is going to make sense
this applies to a lot of the ‘serious thinking’ that ends up in places like this and Wired
3. But if your definition of reasoning doesn’t count some of the stuff models and agents are currently doing right in your face, then that definition just cannot be that good.

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unfortunately that is lowkey hilarious from thames water

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LLMs continue to struggle to contribute meaningful intellectual work with vague scope. e.g. give Opus 5.5 a task to integrate a lot of material into some cohesive analysis on a topic, or what research/truth it should push you towards, and it will give everything exactly equal weighting. When for a skilled human, the point of that process is cutting out the inputs that turn out to be not as useful. Forgetting is just as important as learning when it comes to cutting through noise on a topic.

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they should also integrate a giant claw like the ones at those arcade machines that picks people up at random and drops them in different spots

or not at random, but guided by guests secretly voting with buttons under the table

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Maybe this is a stupid question but why don't dinner parties put everyone's chair on a conveyor belt so they can talk to different people throughout the evening?

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@vikare06 greater sense of the infinite

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iain mcgilchrist says psychotics tend to draw eyes a lot.

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I think blogs and essays will quickly move in the direction of more interactive types of media, where many more things can happen within, and it feels more like a world the reader interacts with and moves through. This is a very cool genre of thing that it has never been so easy for individuals to produce.

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https://t.co/O3sFeJzUA7

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fuck

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Honestly quite unnerving that the only thing stopping me from using this to make my whole life easier is that I myself am too limited to even know what to ask

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@dioscuri that paper you just took a minute to read, what are their methods?

"checking...."

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@cxgonzalez only if you pick the right name

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@thelastpsych what a bomb to drop on the tl

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@cxgonzalez post it brother

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@sebkrier what piece is this

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@ashebytes beauty and truth correlation is unlikely to be coincidental

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@TylerAlterman Would seem relevant that weddings do tend to be good vibes and wholesome