circlemaker

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by circlemaker 1y ago
This made me think of a much more interesting project. A compendium of information automatically extracted from research articles. Essentially one totalizing meta analysis. E.g. If it reads an article about the relationship between height a
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by circlemaker 3y ago
Please expand on that a bit
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by circlemaker 3y ago
It doesn't take mental gymnastics to understand nuance and complexity
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Guillermo Del Toro's Mystical Notes(jillianhess.substack.com)
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by circlemaker 3y ago
And yet that doesn't mean that all extra associations and cognitions that occur on psychedelics are apophenic.
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by circlemaker 3y ago
I don't think they need to justify themselves morally....
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by circlemaker 3y ago
Hyperassociativity is not necessarily apophenia. Apophenia is finding meaningful patterns in random noise, but it is not clear that the patterns being discovered were in random noise, or if the person merely saw the present patterns more cl
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by circlemaker 3y ago
Bing chat is programmed to never be rude, but also to respond in the same tone that it was spoken to. And so, if it tries to mirror a negative tone, it will instead respond with that goodbye message, to avoid being rude.
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by circlemaker 4y ago
If the book is actually good, then what is interesting about it is that it would still be about something that humans find important and relevant, due to the LLM being trained on human cultural data.
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by circlemaker 4y ago
Is changing our definition of happiness enough to achieve it?
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by circlemaker 4y ago
1. Start by writing down everything you know about what you want to write about in a disorganized way. 2. Read the disorganized text and figure out which information goes together, then put that information together. 3. Elaborate on the poi
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by circlemaker 4y ago
Not at all. The caution about attributing human concepts to other animals is that they can have an arbitrarily different brain organization in such a way that stretches those notions beyond what we usually take them to mean. Does a tiger ex
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by circlemaker 4y ago
If it makes them better than other people at reading things up close, such a person could thrive in an environment that demands that. Of course, they should also be able to wear glasses when the environment demands it.
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by circlemaker 5y ago
The big leap is that consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe.
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by circlemaker 5y ago
Cameras don't see colors, a wall or a texture on that wall. Cameras merely capture a grid of values. All color perception, object recognition and figure segmentation happens in the brain.
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by circlemaker 5y ago
There is an even greater opportunity cost while you're not trying anything. Even if you don't end up liking the thing you're trying, at least your life has more breadth and depth than it did before.