thenondualtankie

Maybe they created the stone near water and transported it to the pyramids?

Remember, Bashar has always said the Aliens reveal themselves in 2027.....

Modern AI can program itself with literally zero training data. Because it can just keep sampling from the reality it's learning from, and keep getting a better picture of that reality. That's how the AlphaZero engine was trained. LLMs use the exact same mechanism, but they can learn realities that are not so limited as Go.

But that cyclops was really dumb to keep the humans trapped in there 😹

No. It is just a set of instructions. But so is AI you might say? But the difference is that AI's instructions are nearly as complex as reality itself. And it gets these instructions from reality itself in the first place.

No amount of pixels is reality, but it sure as hell looks like it...

AI is essentially a high dimensional digital camera. It lets you take an accurate yet finite snapshot of reality. Because all of its training data is a representative sample of (human) reality. That includes mathematics, emotion, images, sound, video, all of known science, all known logical structures and thought patterns, etc. A camera is the same technology as an AI. But it is only able to represent reality in a very limited way: an image. If you had a camera that could take an image of the domain of mathematics, you would have AI. And since a camera can have arbitrarily high quality, AI can take arbitrarily better quality pictures of mathematics. Hence why we have seen multiple examples over the last few days where AI solved major mathematical theorems: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1uszk3d/openai_claims_to_have_proven_cycle_double_cover/ https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1uxj3cy/after_openais_cdc_proof_announcement_gpt56_used_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1uydg8w/gpt_56_solved_all_6_problems_from_imo_2026/ https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1v1aix1/the_jacobian_conjecture_is_false_per_anthropic/ These theorems are no Riemann Hypothesis but they're significant. Just look at some of the mathematicians' disbelief in the comments. Mathematics is just an example. AI is like a machine that can optimize for any finite, well-defined task. Chess, Go, protein folding, etc. But as it gets better, the requirement for finitude and well-definedness diminishes, and the distinction between a well-defined and ill-defined task collapses. And that's when we achieve AGI. A finite, massive digital representation of reality that is more accurate than the sum total of mankind.

Leo is criticizing science from a post rationalist POV. You're conflating it with a pre rationalist criticism. No amount of science or finite benchmarking can actually give you an accurate perspective on AI. It's too complicated of a thing.

God will not fix my material problems, yet God is seemingly the best way to achieve success, attract people, etc. How do we resolve this contradiction?

Just ask real developers if AI is increasing productivity or not: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/ai#sentiment-and-usage-ai-sent-ai-sent-prof

You're missing the fact that LLMs can generate their own text, verify whether this text is correct, and expand their own datasets. This is why we're seeing such massive progress in verifiable domains like mathematics. AI can now solve research grade mathematics problems. You don't need to be "skeptical", look it up. There was a recent major theorem proven entirely by GPT 5.6-Sol.

Valid lol

Lol. The idea that this somehow reduces the black box nature of AI is ridiculous. AI will forever be a black box to the human mind, because it is taking a snapshot of reality. It's like thinking you'll be able to figure out how the human brain works by taking a picture of it on your iPhone.

A photograph is a low dimensional representation of reality. A video is a representation of reality with slightly more dimensions: time and sound. Artificial Intelligence, on the other hand, is like if you took a snapshot of reality, but with a 10,000 dimensional camera. AI not only captures images, but it captures time, logic, physics, all human concepts and all human language. Imagine you could enter the dimension of mathematics and take a picture. That's what AI is!

Leo keeps forgetting that there is also a mass hysteria of AI denial, of fear that AI will replace them, etc. People refuse to look at how AI may progress over the coming decade or two and convince themselves that modern AI cannot replace them.