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@DeanAbbott In other words they need each other

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@taijitu_sees Interestingly the etymology of "virtue" is the latin word "vir" meaning "man"

Basically this idea of self mastery leading to flourishing

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@pmarca The egg is really good at teaching you how to build a chicken

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@leecronin And just for the record "But how do you know for sure" is not a good argument here

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Stop waiting to make it

Chances are you actually already have

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@leptokinesis Yeah wouldn't want to think too hard about it

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@abemurray This is actually a real thing. Once you've beat it, you've beat it

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@jposhaughnessy @arbesman A big part of being smart is realizing everything you don't know

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@LuizaJarovsky Makes sense this would happen if an ai does the research, and ai writes a paper, and an ai reviews it

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@newstart_2024 Not only can an ai companion not give us the real connection we want, but we cannot properly connect with an ai companion because it needs nothing from us. This is a really key aspect of love that's often overlooked

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@MccardJoseph Your page paints a nice contrast to this

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@UnmarredReality I go back and forth on this. Bad behavior is bad behavior regardless of the object's humanity. On the other hand, I do also worry about the other extreme of overly humanizing llms, and treating them different than you would a person might be helpful.

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@djweber147 Not necessarily, but it's hard to see how language models take us there

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Language does not equal knowledge

This is obvious

I can say "The sky is blue" and you know this is something I know

I know it because this is an idea I hold in my mind without the aid of language

I can picture it

I could also communicate this in a different language

However language is clearly intricately tied to our understanding

There are many ideas we can't "picture" so we need words to help form them

Language even helps form how we think

For example, the Greek language has six different words that can be translated as "love," all having a deeper and more specific meaning

German has the concept of "schadenfreude," taking joy in others' misfortune

Words shape how our minds think

But getting back to knowledge, it is not inherently dependent on language

It's the other way around: language is dependent on knowledge

Imagine some monkeys found a bunch of books and started copying them

Even though they would be producing language, it is obviously not tied to their understanding of the world

Think about human babies. They experience the world and start to learn it. Only later to they start to map language onto their knowledge

I say all this to tie into ai and how agi could properly be achieved

But I imagine the connections are pretty obvious so I'll just leave it there

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@motorhueso There are some ways ai unlocks a new kind of creativity, but when you look at the broader system, you're right, nothing new has been created

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@LuizaJarovsky This goes for human interactions as well lol

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@LuizaJarovsky I do wonder if this is a problem that will ever be possible to solve since any kind of self-verifcation system gets you back to the same issue

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@atelicinvest We work for a client that is notoriously bad at even understanding what they want, so yeah, it takes a real personal touch to help them figure it out (and be happy they came up with it themselves)

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@samswoora This already feels pretty accurate. I can only imagine when AI gets more integrated with product and tech stacks

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@newstart_2024 This is the victim mentality. That our problems are external and out of our control. Even if they are, it's not helpful to think that way