Ben

lover of fate

[Ben @benjbrsi]

Solve for x.

[Alex Bilzerian @alexbilz]

Feynman saw his cousin struggle with algebra by mechanically following rules.

He realized the essence of algebra is simply solving for x, not rigidly adhering to rote methods.

[Ben @benjbrsi]

@Satyaki_R Path matters a lot. The common response is a particular self tell. Or perhaps reflection of incentives

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Barcelona, you win. Sagrada Família. Just incredible.

Watch the whole thing with the sound on

[Paul Portesi @PaulPortesi]

Don't pay attention to their right or wrong.

Pay attention to what they justify.

That's where the truth lies.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Silence can help us most to recognize the voice of God, since it fosters attention and recollection. Freed from the noise of a thousand voices, we come to recognize that some voices deceive our desires, others buy us without nourishing us, and still others speak out of self-interest. In silence, we understand that ideologies pass away, while truth remains. https://t.co/lbaMqHx1cJ

[Paul Portesi @PaulPortesi]

What people don't realize is it's not getting the answer right in life, it's getting the problem right.

That's the answer.

Most people don't get the problem right so they end up solving the wrong problem and they're wrong even if they're right.

Never about the right answer.

[Ben @benjbrsi]

@PaulPortesi If it’s not your time or understanding, then it’s theirs.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

There are two possible outcomes:

• If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement.
• If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

-- Enrico Fermi

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Pope Leo XIV’s address in English at the publication of his Encyclical Letter Magnifica humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the age of Artificial Intelligence.

Do listen to all of it. It is very good.

[Ben @benjbrsi]

@PaulPortesi Paul Aurelius

[Paul Portesi @PaulPortesi]

If you need to talk about what you're doing, you're not doing it.

[Stefano Peron @Stefano_Peron]

LLMs didn’t kill mysticism.
They killed human narcissism.
They showed that language, reasoning-like behavior and social fluency can be generated without an inner witness….
But that makes consciousness more mysterious, nott less: it separates performance from presence🥩🥩🍾.@mikeharrisNY

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This is the the quote I've been citing a lot recently.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

A reminder

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

I still don't know what lead to "success". But I know what leads to insuccess: a temperament of complaint, the mentality of permanent victimhood, and the collective and individual propensity for lamentation.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

A. Tversky once said he didn't care about *artificial intelligence*,he studied *natural stupidity*.
I prefer to study *artificial stupidy*.

[Neil Hudson @NeilHudsonexp]

Extract from “Normal Science and its dangers” by Karl Popper:

“[Kuhn] believes in the domination of a ruling dogma over considerable periods…
What are his main arguments? They are not psychological or historical-they are logical: Kuhn suggests that the rationality of science presupposes the acceptance of a common framework. He suggests that rationality depends upon something like a common language and a common set of assumptions. He suggests that rational discussion, and rational criticism, is only possible if we have agreed on fundamentals.

This is a widely accepted and indeed a fashionable thesis: the thesis of relativism. And it is a logical thesis. I regard the thesis as mistaken…I have dubbed this thesis The Myth of the Framework, and I have discussed it on various occasions. I regard it as a logical and philosophical mistake. (I remember that Kuhn does not like my usage of the word 'mistake'; but this dislike is merely part of his relativism.)…. I should like just to indicate briefly why I am not a relativist: I do believe in 'absolute' or "objective' truth, in Tarski's sense (although I am, of course, not an 'absolutist' in the sense of thinking that I, or anybody else, has the truth in his pocket). I do not doubt that this is one of the points on which we are most deeply divided; and it is a logical point.

I do admit that at any moment we are prisoners caught in the framework of our theories; our expectations; our past experiences; our language.

But we are prisoners in a Pickwickian sense: if we try, we can break out of our framework at any time. Admittedly, we shall find ourselves again in a framework, but it will be a better and roomier one; and we can at any moment break out of it again.

The central point is that a critical discussion and a comparison of the various frameworks is always possible. It is just a dogma-a dangerous dogma- that the different frameworks are like mutually untranslatable languages…

The Myth of the Framework is, in our time, the central bulwark of irrationalism. My counter-thesis is that it simply exaggerates a difficulty”

[F. A. Hayek Quotes @FAHayekSays]

Hayek: “Prices must be interpreted as signals of what people ought to do.”

“Marxism blinds you to the essential function of prices in securing a coordination in the market.”