There is an old idea: if you must spend your time doing anything at all, do it well. Everyone shows up to work to take care of their basic needs. Once the needs are met, personal quality becomes a factor.
I would say it's not intensity alone, but intensity towards a vision. Working hard by itself is never enough, but working hard to create something valuable, that only you can see requires intensity. A lot of people…
You can't really say the speed-up is meaningless without knowing someone's intent for doing something, especially in the case of reverse engineering. Presumably it's to understand something better for many other…
'Software evolution follows the means, not the need' is basically stating 'it is what it is'. It lends nothing to either scenario: perception of quality increases, or perception of quality decreases. Clearly the means…
These are all great points but I'd also point out that the 'dark age' scenario is a highly competitive scenario, while the 'golden age' scenario is a highly collaborative one. I don't think technology will fizzle out in…
Completely unrelated, but it's so odd to see upside down '8's in the first column of the base tables on their pricing page.
Tense matters, but I disagree with your word choices about conjecture and speculation. I'm not sure what point you were driving at by mentioning tense, so I'll speak to the word choice. Speculation suggests light…
This is the best attitude to have about the current state. Unless you have some dramatically different sensible solution (and you probably don't when it comes to technology, because it seems to spread for reasons that…
I get you. What people are doing now is questioning value: in themselves, and what they can create for others. I hate to always oversimplify things but we're pretty simple things to begin with: Social creatures that…
I don't think it's the communication that's lost, it's the motivation. People love to collaborate, but they don't want always want to waste time doing it.
Desire and motivation are factors to consider. Would you want to invest 5 years of effort into solving the Hypothesis 'the old way', knowing someone is probably working on it right now with AI? And then once it's solved…
Ok, then what is an agent that provides a 'thinking' or reasoning loop around said model? You ended your first post with: "An LLM encodes the normative regularities of our linguistic/conceptual games into its weights,…
You don't consider recursive self-improvement a step towards 'updating a perspective'? I think you are also suggesting Mathematics and Language are the same thing.
It would only be true if you consider Mathematics and Language to be the same thing. Both depend on Logic, which is where "deontic scorekeeping" where you can only establish something is true and believable by 'keeping…
I don't know why this interests me.... Prediction is an appropriate word to use when you are stating something you believe to be true about something unknown. 'The sun will rise tomorrow' is a pretty weak prediction,…
Yes, human understanding is central to his argument. My interpretation of his argument: The math problems AI helps solve were problems identified by humans in the past. They're problems meant to guide the field: working…
None of us is as dumb as all of us.
Logos (logic) is derived from meaning. Meaning is created by intelligence. Intelligence uses Logos to predict. Intelligence requires observation. A universe contains all of them. Facts are established truths intelligent…
Etymology helps. Ecology: the scientific study of how living organisms interact with one another and with their physical surroundings. Economy is the ecology of finance. Or, Economy is the science of financial systems.…
However you want to label it: you don't get a sense that anything living ever touched the little pixels you're moving around on the screen. There is no 'emotional tug' to help immerse you into the game. I do like your…
"Soul" means something has a story to tell. It was created for a purpose, it was useful, it may be near its end. There are very clear and obvious dimensions to it that help to immerse you into the game. Details to pick…
Personally, I don't care what the guy does. It's entertainment for him, and obviously the people replying to his emails were entertained. I'm just pointing out issues with the article, why people might be upset. Also,…
It's misleading information. Most of us who have worked with AI can clearly see the issues with what the AI Engineer created, and how what he is doing cannot be 'scaled up' to society. Everyone in the article is…
Western labs are creating the improvements, and Chinese labs are giving them away for free (presumably after examining the improvements). That's the jist of the article.
As always (and just as the author ended by 'following the money'), it's better for their economy. Extrapolate from there.
There is an old idea: if you must spend your time doing anything at all, do it well. Everyone shows up to work to take care of their basic needs. Once the needs are met, personal quality becomes a factor.
I would say it's not intensity alone, but intensity towards a vision. Working hard by itself is never enough, but working hard to create something valuable, that only you can see requires intensity. A lot of people…
You can't really say the speed-up is meaningless without knowing someone's intent for doing something, especially in the case of reverse engineering. Presumably it's to understand something better for many other…
'Software evolution follows the means, not the need' is basically stating 'it is what it is'. It lends nothing to either scenario: perception of quality increases, or perception of quality decreases. Clearly the means…
These are all great points but I'd also point out that the 'dark age' scenario is a highly competitive scenario, while the 'golden age' scenario is a highly collaborative one. I don't think technology will fizzle out in…
Completely unrelated, but it's so odd to see upside down '8's in the first column of the base tables on their pricing page.
Tense matters, but I disagree with your word choices about conjecture and speculation. I'm not sure what point you were driving at by mentioning tense, so I'll speak to the word choice. Speculation suggests light…
This is the best attitude to have about the current state. Unless you have some dramatically different sensible solution (and you probably don't when it comes to technology, because it seems to spread for reasons that…
I get you. What people are doing now is questioning value: in themselves, and what they can create for others. I hate to always oversimplify things but we're pretty simple things to begin with: Social creatures that…
I don't think it's the communication that's lost, it's the motivation. People love to collaborate, but they don't want always want to waste time doing it.
Desire and motivation are factors to consider. Would you want to invest 5 years of effort into solving the Hypothesis 'the old way', knowing someone is probably working on it right now with AI? And then once it's solved…
Ok, then what is an agent that provides a 'thinking' or reasoning loop around said model? You ended your first post with: "An LLM encodes the normative regularities of our linguistic/conceptual games into its weights,…
You don't consider recursive self-improvement a step towards 'updating a perspective'? I think you are also suggesting Mathematics and Language are the same thing.
It would only be true if you consider Mathematics and Language to be the same thing. Both depend on Logic, which is where "deontic scorekeeping" where you can only establish something is true and believable by 'keeping…
I don't know why this interests me.... Prediction is an appropriate word to use when you are stating something you believe to be true about something unknown. 'The sun will rise tomorrow' is a pretty weak prediction,…
Yes, human understanding is central to his argument. My interpretation of his argument: The math problems AI helps solve were problems identified by humans in the past. They're problems meant to guide the field: working…
None of us is as dumb as all of us.
Logos (logic) is derived from meaning. Meaning is created by intelligence. Intelligence uses Logos to predict. Intelligence requires observation. A universe contains all of them. Facts are established truths intelligent…
Etymology helps. Ecology: the scientific study of how living organisms interact with one another and with their physical surroundings. Economy is the ecology of finance. Or, Economy is the science of financial systems.…
However you want to label it: you don't get a sense that anything living ever touched the little pixels you're moving around on the screen. There is no 'emotional tug' to help immerse you into the game. I do like your…
"Soul" means something has a story to tell. It was created for a purpose, it was useful, it may be near its end. There are very clear and obvious dimensions to it that help to immerse you into the game. Details to pick…
Personally, I don't care what the guy does. It's entertainment for him, and obviously the people replying to his emails were entertained. I'm just pointing out issues with the article, why people might be upset. Also,…
It's misleading information. Most of us who have worked with AI can clearly see the issues with what the AI Engineer created, and how what he is doing cannot be 'scaled up' to society. Everyone in the article is…
Western labs are creating the improvements, and Chinese labs are giving them away for free (presumably after examining the improvements). That's the jist of the article.
As always (and just as the author ended by 'following the money'), it's better for their economy. Extrapolate from there.