Dan the Man

[Kevin Weil 🇺🇸 @kevinweil]

💥 Super excited to launch GPT-Rosalind, our first frontier model built for scientific research across biology, drug discovery, and translational medicine.

The model is trained in chemistry, protein engineering, genomics and more, including built-in knowledge of relevant databases and tools researchers use.

We want to make these capabilities available to scientists and researchers while maintaining strong safeguards against biological misuse. GPT-Rosalind is launching through a trusted access deployment structure for qualified customers.

We're also launching a Life Sciences plugin for Codex to everyone today, which works with our mainline models as well as GPT-Rosalind.

[Dan the Man @dnby89]

@HealthRanger And thus Solaria was born

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@mathelirium The lamp is off due to the mechanism overheating and failing.

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@the_boring_dad @DavidDeutschOxf @yudapearl @bnielson01 Love Feynman but it was Wheeler no?

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@Ganeshuor Non-contradiction lies at the heart of mathematics.

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And there it was the answer, confident and concise and actionable. All without being pedantic or overbearing or even emasculating. The doctor was still the decision maker after all and he didn't want to be spoken down to by a computer. A computer cannot touch or feel, breathe the same air as the patient or appreciate the pregnant pauses of speech that so often underlie the whole truth of the matter. Of course, the doctor was fired some time after not following the computer's advice. For what can be said of those who don't follow the advice of a genius? Headstrong and wrong, not wrong for the patient did recover but wrong for putting self before outcome. To be fair the computer did suggest remediation, the doctor was good but there was insurance and lawyers and compliance and paperwork and most importantly rationale. Nobody ever gets in trouble for following the advice of a genius and getting it wrong. Ignoring genius though, that's just dangerous. Self-thought can so often be wrong thought for those who still practice thought at all.

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@IntuitMachine This is Economics 2.0, you all should read Accelerando.

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@EOEboh Is vibe a language?

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I love this theory. If true this implies we live in a black hole but also that black holes can live inside black holes. So what is the limit of black hole nesting? How much smaller must the nested black hole be from the host black hole to form a stable system? What happens when the nesting black hole surpasses the stability limit? Can a russian doll of black holes exist in a stable configuration? As the nested black hole radiates hawking radiation what happens to that radiation as it is trapped in the gravity well of the host black hole? Is our universe a black hole nested in a larger black hole universe? Is it black holes all the way up?

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@annbordetsky Gondonin Gravidics

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@Ganeshuor Reality arrives, at least in part, from the principle of non-contradiction. Allow contradiction and anything is possible.

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@QuoteNietzsche The Beginning of Infinity.

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@MattHabermehl @xirtman @fchollet Its important to stress the social interaction aspect of language. Consciousness is learned, language is its substrate. Its a natural byproduct of living in a complex society.

[Dan the Man @dnby89]

You make a great point. Language is a structured set of learned social interactions (auditory, visual, computer bits, etc). The great apes can learn sign language. Dolphins and whales also have a form of auditory language. This likely means they have some degree of consciousness. Though, at least for the great apes, it's bound to the present moment. They never talk about the future or the past. Consciousness is an abstraction of the self in both space and time. The most self-introspective question of "Who am I?" requires an implicit, "Who was I?" and "Who will I be?". Without temporal abstraction human-level consciousness is impossible. Finally, the more general, and therefore more complex, a language is, the more complex a conscious representation of self can be. The common refrain, "We are all star dust" is a simple sentence but requires a massive background of knowledge and metaphor for understanding. The transcendent experience of resonating with the universe, reveling in the fact that humans and mountains and stars share common building blocks is beyond animal understanding. So are great apes conscious, to some extent yes, but are they human level, certainly not.

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@beffjezos Both lungs and trees are optimizing the same metric, surface area. Lungs maximize surface area exposed to inhaled oxygen. Trees maximize leaf surface area exposed to sunlight.

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Hello Julian Jaynes. I like the extreme cases since they tend to be more informative. Helen Keller despite her being deaf and blind at 19 months learned how to communicate and became a major social figure. Nobody would argue that Helen was not conscious. Contrast that with Genie (feral child) who at 20 months of age was neglected, bound, and isolated. She has been a ward of the state and only later in life picked up a few words and some sign language. To what extent was/is Genie conscious? I don't know. The core of these examples is that socialization is absolutely critical for human conscious development. That language and communication are the backdrop of a metaphorical mindspace wherein the external world is emulated. Without language, there is no method for compressing sensory information into concepts. Without metaphor, there is no mechanism for concept generalization. Consciousness without language is immediate and raw. Learning becomes dependent on imitation. Introspection is all but impossible. Without these mental tools, it's impossible to survive in human society. So is Genie conscious and introspective but just can't communicate it or, the more likely situation, is Genie so handicapped because she has limited access to consciousness?

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@allgarbled No. Mathematical rigor is foundational to logic, critical thinking, and decision-making. Few who learn math actually do math but all who learn math benefit from the rigor involved.

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@TaliaRinger Ok Plato

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@ebarenholtz @will_hahn Music and memory go hand in hand due to repetition and fractal structure. Musical self-similarity allows for the creation of layered nuance that can be overlaid by metaphor and meaning. I suspect fractal geometry plays a big role in mental organization and cognition.

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@ebarenholtz @will_hahn "Sometimes I start a sentence and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way." -Michael Scott
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