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Sorry, it went over my head a bit, you read about his arrest while he was being arrested?
by syspec 2y ago
Sorry, it went over my head a bit, you read about his arrest while he was being arrested?
- wolfgang42 2y agoHe was being arrested in the article, not IRL. When I say “Ulbricht walked into the public library and sat down at the table directly in front of me” I mean that I read > He went... past the periodicals and reference desk, beyond the romance novels, and settled in at a circular table near science fiction, on the second floor... in a corner, with a view out the window and his back toward the wall. and realized that I was in the Glen Park public library, at a circular table near science fiction on the second floor, in a corner with my back to the window, and facing directly towards where the article had just said he had sat.
- pwdisswordfishz 2y ago> He was being arrested in the article, not IRL. So the article lied that he was arrested?
- chocolateteeth 2y agoCute
- chrisco255 2y agoI see so you accidentally retraced his footsteps from years prior and then realized it as you were reading about it.
- Satam 2y agoI had the same confusion initially, interestingly chat GPT gets it: So while wolfgang42 wasn't there when Ulbricht was actually arrested, their realization created a vivid mental image of the event unfolding in that space, which made the story feel more immersive. In short: they were reading about an old event, but it happened to occur in the same spot they were sitting at that moment. Hope that clears it up!
- blooalien 2y agoOkay, that's actually pretty wild. I totally misunderstood too, but the response from the "AI" does indeed "clear it up" for me. A bit surprised actually, but then again, I suppose I shouldn't be, since language is what those "large language models" are all about after all... :)
- babkayaga 2y agoIndeed. But their is something surprising here, however. people like chomsky would present examples like this for decades as untracktable by any algorithm, and as a proof that language is a uniquely human thing. they went as far as to claim that humans have a special language organ, somewhere in their brain perhaps. turns out, a formula exists, it is just very very large.
- TuringTest 2y ago> chomsky would present examples like this for decades as untracktable by any algorithm, and as a proof that language is a uniquely human thing Generatove AI has all but solved the Frame Problem. Those expressions where intractable bc of the impossibility to represent in logic all the background knowledge that is required to understand the context. It turns out, it is possible to represent all that knowledge in compressed form, with statistical summarisation applied to humongous amounts of data and processing power, unimaginable back then; this puts the knowledge in reach of the algorithm processing the sentence, which is thus capable of understanding the context.
- erehweb 2y agoHuge amounts of data and processing power are arguably the foundation for the "Chinese room" thought experiment.
- dambi0 2y agoI don’t think I understand this entirely. The point of the thought experiment is to assume the possibility of the room and consider the consequences. How it might be achievable in practice doesn’t alter this
- kordlessagain 2y agoThat’s because they are describing the inner workings of their visualization systems. They saw him walk in because he was where it happened. The image of Ross, and others, was in mind, however.
- racl101 2y agoYeah, whoosh for me.
- Evidlo 2y agoThen he realized that he was Ross Ulbricht all along.