I think that God is not more powerful than mathematics. God is bound by and inscribed into the logos. The logos can explore itself only by building computational representations, which it has to manipulate step by step. But the logos may run and perhaps trace entire universes.
@plinz
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OpenAI’s Strategic Hiring: Value Capture Over Algorithm Design
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Makes sense that OpenAI would not hire the great econ policy advisor Larry Summers to advise credit assignment algorithms but for shaping the market environment to maximize value capture
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Big Tech AI Access Divide and Workforce Productivity
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OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are committed to building child proof midwit prosthetics. Citadel and a16z will use jealously guarded bespoke models. AI will not make most of the workforce ten times as productive, but it may allow them to get away with 10% of their productivity
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Protecting Information Systems From Ideological Capture in Education
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How can we incentivize a meme factory against being taken over by ideologues, especially if it’s the certified top level indoctrinator of the teachers and the administration?
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Consciousness as Self-Observing Process: Perception Loop
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The defining feature of consciousness is not the presence of a particular content, but the immediate perception that the content is being perceived. I suspect that is due to observation being a self organizing process, stabilizing itself by observing the fact that it observes
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Consciousness as Second-Order Perception: Solving the Hard Problem
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I think that consciousness itself is relatively simple (second order perception, creation of a coherent "now"), but its content generation is much harder (eg experiencing chocolate). But the hard problem is not about contents, it's confusion about second order perception.
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Time as Memory Direction: Branching Substrates and Observer Consciousness
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time is the direction in which the observer forms memories (pointing away from a hypothetical big bang in all directions); the substrate is branching
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Book fails to address linguistic meaning construction adequately
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The book does not solve the problem it poses. It also does not concern itself with those cases where meaning can actually be constructed linguistically
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LLM Language Constraints and Semantic Referent Loss
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If the LLM does not represent enough constraints, its language can go "on holiday", i.e. lose its referent in an integrated model of the meaning universe. But so may the use of vague terms like "embodied in life" become superficial pattern matching without actual referent.
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LLM Inference as Pattern Matching and Reasoning Process
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The inference process of current LLMs is somewhat comparable to attempting to answer a question without deep analysis, ie through a process of pattern matching, creative association and constraint resolution. However, reasoning is itself a process of successive pattern matching.