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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When a machine solves a problem humans spent decades on, does the discovery feel the same to you?”
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I think you’re giving Terrance too much credit. He might have stumbled upon something useful (doubtful) but it was accidental, and not, I think, intentional on his part. Sadly, I can’t tell from your post what the deeper valid motive is.... I love this question and I don't know what to do with it. A jumble of thoughts: are the genuises in their own craft actually useful to the general public? Most physicists can't teach the basics really well, and the advanced physics aren't useful to most people. BUT JORDAN!... - Enzo...
Within 1-3 years, I suspect that it would make sense to use an AI rather than pay a human to do things like: program a computer think through maths or science problems And with less likliehood: be a therapist or coach who isn’t operating in the top 10% answer 90% of accounting... - david...
Terrence Howard maybe a crackpot, but he isn't all wrong.
Terrence Howard is mostly known as an actor, but he’s recently been interviewed by Joe Rogan for his book "1 x 1 = 2." The book is intentionally provocative and intended to critique how trusted math and science are in a civilizational context.... Second Coming <--> Positive Singularity <--> Steel-UpTrust? pt 2
Link to part 1: https://uptrusting.com/post/LN01VP Note: Originally written for the participants of the AI alignment X spirituality/metaphysics retreats I’ve co-hosted with Jordan and Anna Salamon, so there may be some references to ideas or people you don’t know.... Hello
I'm hollering into the void to see if anyone is there. I'm an independent Psychological Anthropologist with a mathematics backer. I am a feral academic. :). My work is on interpersonal structures of power.... Alex's non-profit: https://www.mathematicalmetaphysics.org/
And substack: https://zhukeepa.substack.com/I recently had a conversation with an AI about microtonal music. In case you're wondering what that is, the normal western stuff is a scale separated by 12 tones between octaves.... - david...
This is probably a stretch, but the way that AI is starting to be used to understand and extend mathematics is interesting. Here is a mathematician who makes the point before the Royal Institute: https://youtu.be/oOYcPkBaotg?si=PuUl9Yr8a5QxBvoN If you saw the movie The Man Who... Yeah I was also thinking about the Jhanas. Tommy in case you haven't heard of them, Brian talks a little about going to a reatreat here, but I think a lot of the techniques are specifically about cultivating these self-reinforcing loops of goodness.... - fra...
At some level I believe everything must be the same and it should be possible to map concepts and relations from one map to the other. Like category theory in math (not that I know it..). The idea of building bridges is also good....