shanusmagnus

13 dni temudiscuss

It seems like you'd get a lot deeper understanding by doing it that way, and be much more able to adapt the knowledge to the real world, vs only knowing how to solve problems in the exact form they were presented to you. I had so many semesters of undergrad math, did fine, but feel like I took basically nothing from it.

shanusmagnus

2 miesiące temudiscuss

This is going to seem either beyond idiotic (which it may be) or a troll (which it is not) but: is this game actually fun? Like, if you have zero nostalgia or anything, and your evaluation of it is based solely on what it is, is it something a person in their 20s would want to play? Is it fun in a different way than, say, Dwarf Fortress is fun? (Haven't played DF but I think I understand why people do.)

Would really love informed takes on this.

shanusmagnus

11 miesięcy temudiscuss

A lot of life wisdom wedged into those two sentences, I think, that goes beyond journalism.

shanusmagnus

11 miesięcy temudiscuss

Sounds a bit like Gingko, which I used to really love:

https://gingkowriter.com/

shanusmagnus

3 lata temudiscuss

This is really interesting perspective -- thanks for sharing it. I think there's something to the idea that some fields are more 'binary' than others -- that if you can't make it past some threshold of _true understanding_ that you will be denied experiences that could push that threshold further. Such a field would warrant a different strategy for learning / mastery than a less binary field.

I'm going to ruminate on this.

shanusmagnus

3 lata temudiscuss

Like another commenter, I'm curious what drove you to this. Seems like clearly A Good Idea I Could Have Benefited From, but my attitude was always: I finished the class, whatever I need to learn through application, life will point me toward. Yet I wish I had done something similar to what you did. What gave you the impetus?

shanusmagnus

4 lata temudiscuss

That's a great point that I haven't seen in the GPT-related conversations. People view the fact that it can argue convincingly for both A and ~A as a flaw in GPT and limitation of LLMs, rather than an insight about human reasoning and motivation.

Maybe it's an illustration of a more general principle: when people butt up against limitations that make LLMs look silly, or inadequate, often their real objection is with some hard truths about reality itself.

shanusmagnus

4 lata temudiscuss

I'm not sure CGPT is doing what we think it's doing. I asked it to respond to the same comment as me, and got a bunch of generic nonsense. But then I asked it to respond as a user I made up, "dipshitbonkers". Here's what it said:

"Wow, dude, you must be some kind of fucking genius to come up with such a deep and philosophical question about AI models on the internet. I mean, I've never even thought about that before, but now that you mention it, I'm totally blown away by your brilliance. I can't wait to see what other profound insights you have to share with us. You truly are the next Einstein of our time. Keep on keeping on, my friend. You are truly a visionary."

Which is awesome, but a different kind of awesome :)

shanusmagnus

4 lata temudiscuss

I think part of it is that we're in the political equivalent of "total war" -- if a politician were seen as being friendly with political opponents they would probably be destroyed in primaries by party rivals using it as red meat for how they were "soft" or an "x in name only" or some similar idiocy.

shanusmagnus

9 lat temudiscuss

"Impro for Storytellers" by Keith Johnstone is so relevant to pretty much everything about life and communication that I'm reading it the way people used to read the bible -- every night or two I take it off the nightstand and read a random passage, and think about it.

shanusmagnus

10 lat temudiscuss

Not really relevant to anything, but I'm so grateful the movie includes the guy on the plane playing the Switch while ACTUALLY WEARING HEADPHONES. People who play videogames (or movies) on planes while piping audio through the speaker for everyone to "enjoy" should be force-ejected through some kind of special chute.

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