what's a symbol, asks the physicist
what's a quark, responds the sage

Patterns unmoored from concrete concepts are meaningless noise.
Meaningful patterns are derived from concrete concepts.

Are you a computer programmer?
Do you read Wittgenstein and Whitehead in your spare time?

Does the term "meaning atom" make sense to you?

Then get in touch and let's change the world.

Towards a Post-Capitalist Theory of the Firm

The Inevitable Failure of Developing AI, so-called, via LLMs.
Testable Predictions.

LLMs Will Fail Systematically.

"Towards a Digital Epistemic Engine, an Alternative Proposal for the Development of Artificial Intelligence, so-called."
Part 1: Premises and Assumptions.

Having some fun with ChatGPT

Sentient, never mind hostile, AI is not even on the horizon yet. Fire is much easier to create, and can harm much sooner than any AI. etc. etc.

This is "thinking about interesting concepts" - not engineering.

The argument is based on some absurd premises. Please don't point out that we don't have such AIs yet. But that hasn't stopped the AI Doomers from fretting about Skynet, either. So, cut me some slack.

@edzitron.com - for your consideration.

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I should have used the pronoun 'they' in the first place. Turns out he identified as male, according to his journal. That should settle it.

I didn't know that. So, he left a note. That settles it.

If there ever was a very strong case to be made for using "they" as the pronoun, this is probably it.

This raises an interesting conundrum: should they be referred to by their gender assigned at birth or their performed gender? Both options are very problematic.

Unless she left notes on how she identified, it's most likely she disguised as a man. I doubt her social context provided her with the concepts necessary for considering herself potentially trans-gender.
It's difficult to think thoughts in isolation from your cultural context.

There's a valid debate to be had about the implications of such AI in principle, but there is little point in worrying about it at the expense of more pressing issues (wealth and income inequality, the environmental crisis, war...).
Fix the problems we have, then worry about problems we may have.

🚨 New paper alert: "Frontier Models are Capable of In-Context Scheming" 🤖💡 AI might be smart enough to scheme and strategize... but can it navigate a world of tape drives, SWIFT transfers, and bureaucracy? Spoiler: Not without human 'help.' 👀

#AI #EmergentBehavior #TechResearch

Unless you live south of the equator :)

absolutely.

If you met someone who talks like Elon at a bar, you'd probably extricate yourself very quickly from the conversation post haste.

I don't know why, but this reminds me of a Pieter Bruegel painting.

An illustration of a couple of trees in the depths of Winter, bare branches are silhouetted by a burst of weak sunlight, crows spiral overhead. A lone figure walks between the trees. Quiet and eerie.

A black pen (crosshatch technique) and block printing ink (applied with a roller, light areas masked out with masking fluid) illustration on paper. This illustration appears in The Woman in Black written by Susan Hill published by Vintage Classics.

This is glorious. Really, really cool!

The wealthy moderate, and those who wish to be wealthy moderates, have always been more afraid of leftism than fascism. And fascists have, traditionally, let the moderates live in peace. Fascism doesn't demand fealty, only acquiescence.