MutedMiles

I think you need to contemplate on concepts and conceptualization. Like how you know "thinking" is same as rock eroding. These things belong in different categories or even realities all together one is physical while other is conceptual or mind-like. The models you are using to explain things are not making it clearer. Additionally when you believe that concepts and thinking cannot be dropped or changed unless you are open then that's your reality, and with such beliefs it will be impossible to change unless you are open off-course, But these are concepts or models to explain and understand stuff and it's always best to be flexible with these, Since it's not the actual reality, if we get rigid with it then we block our own way. Ralston makes total sense when you read his books and spend time, on his assertions or if you spent time thinking on these things. I would recommend you a book. If you are into books it might be something you really like, You reminded me of an old friend who loved it, it's his favorite book . "How to Think About Weird Things by Theodore Schick".

Why you wrote this with ChatGPT? After first few lines i couldn't read, what's the point. I mean would have been better you write four sentences but by yourself. Atleast I'll know someone wanted to say something. Now it's just AI content.

This forum is my go to place on internet. There is nothing like this anywhere on internet. There used to be some forums from 2005-2010 that I used to visit and contribute. But currently this is the only place I feel like visiting and reading maybe posting something once in a while. I don't participate as much but, I get a lot out of it by reading others. It's like in the company of many high consciousness people who just by interacting with each other talk with me, without me saying a word. It's a gathering in the league of it's own.

This reminds me of staring at my self in the mirror few years back, not sure why it started it was a practice I did for a while. And at one point I was staring at something truly unknown and it scared me. I didn't knew what that thing was in the mirror. The fear was kind of addictive, like something scary and interesting at the same time. so I visited it few more times. But couldn't stay with it for long. Needless to say the practice stopped as it started on it's own.

I don't see a connection here, I'm aware of what I'm doing and that's enough. I don't have to align my self image with anything, it is what it is. I just need to see it for what it is.

I have been extensively using AI for many years, If you may have seen these models grow in last 7 to 8 years, "AI" the brand was always way ahead of "AI" the product. Because the brand has billions of dollars in marketing momentum behind it. Since my opinions are purely based on my experience i don't care about all that crap of humanizing "AI", it's a tool and you can use it to be productive, pick and choose how and where you want to use it, with the right use you can be 100 times more productive, but not everywhere. From humanizing i mean, things like "thinking", "creativity", "intelligence" etc. It's producing tokens, it's not thinking. This distinction is not trivial. I don't know how much you understand the implications of this distinction.

Failed in my case, looks like i have chosen the wrong personality and career.

All major models have been extensively trained on porn.

Based on conversation around AI in this thread, i'm going to recommend below video to develop deep understanding of LLMs (apart from a huge marketing campaign and momentum). There is frankly no one as qualified a teacher as Andrej Karpathy. You can read about him.

People just got shocked due to paradigm shift happened in LLMs because of transformer model coupled with thought chains later on. But "AI" is actually inferior at it's current stage. I do believe it can improve but it would be a new paradigm shift. Because current mathematical model behind it has ran it's course, that's the best they can do with this paradigm. Maybe more bells and whistles will come but nothing extra-ordinary. You misunderstood me, I'm not saying AI is not able to have faster and deeper content generation, I'm saying there is no other sense making going on in that conversation, it's giberish until someone makes a sense out of it. This is the core feature with AI, it has no direction. In that sense hallucination are a feature not bug of Models. I think the next paradigm of Models will have an elaborate subjectivity of their own, don't know what it will look like. But i'm not going to call token generation as human level intelligence, we can do way better. Edit: And i'm not talking ultimate conversation with yourself, take this conversation for an example there is sense making happening at your level and my level. Offcourse i'm assuming that you exist but not without some good reasons, i.e. the same that i assume for my existence.

I happen to be understanding it way too well fortunately (or unfortunately) , since it's the area of my work. I don't know how much you know about it, but excluding all bells and whistles it's just predicting the next token.

He was able to communicate with AI, because conversation with AI is conversation with yourself ultimately, because that's the only sense making happening in the context of that conversation. Conversation with another person is different, because there is another independent sense making going on too. So no comparison there with "AI", it's a different ball game all together. A person is not the sum total of his knowledge, he is ultimately a consciousness.

I don't see why someone who wants to have full ownership of creative writing process would use AI. It doesn't add any value there, it's just another area where "AI" is forced for no good reason. Writing is a single process, it's not that you have ideas ready and you want to just express them. You have a sense of what you are going to write and then creativity takes over. And you keep writing and revising until a finished work is ready to your future self's satisfaction.

I'm not sure if that's the complete picture, from my own life there was a period of three years from 2017 to 2020 that i had infinite energy. I was doing everything and it was all going well. Never before or after in my life i had such energy not even in by teenage years. And I was way past my prime in terms of age and health at that time. I think i know what it was.

Some people do find a weird balance in life which works for them. They are just courageous enough to try stuff and intelligent enough to stick with it. Basically it's a perfect combination of desire fulfilling, virtues and vices, many try to do that, very few grow into that balance like a perfect system with just enough negativity and positivity to function efficiently. In that context instinct is actually becomes evolved intelligence, But let's not ignore that majority who try all that smoking, drinking and junk end-up on a familiar trajectory of a terrible life.