It feels very humbling that here is one of the smartest humans on the planet asking questions, and the LLM keeps answering in this "Yes, it's really simple if you think about it" way, like a professor talking to a talented student.
"Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."
>I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us.
I can come pretty close to a humbler example of this, as the more-extroverted "bad twin," of an identical set: my own genetic equal is bored to tears interacting with 90% of daily interactions... we both started with good brains/IQ, then went to the same college; but while twin spent the next decades solving EE problems (and co-founding startups), I "kicked back" and smoked myself sillyretarded, electricianing, relying upon bullshit and sheer luck to get to where I [barely maintain] am.
Watching my twin deal with any normal-intelligence persons is such an unpredictable shitshow, but I pretty much always know he's "dealing with us toddlers" who mostly never grew up. His patience is limited but willing.
Glad he can get by among us mere mortals. I have other similarly-minded brothers, but only this one identical twin.
huh? He's pretty famous to anyone who has studied either the history of computing or of the development of the atomic bomb.
I mean that.
One of my lifelong goals is to publish something witty about my perceptions on the nature vs nurture debate, given that I have both a genetic clone (i.e. same DNA)... but we're also the result of a late-split zygote, which resulted in us developing as mirror images (using the same genetic code).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin#Mirror_image_twins>
So we're actually chiral, in almost all aspects (handedness, lens prescription, some anatomical pathways, dominant "brain"ness).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality>
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Motivation for my writing this is lacking, most likely due to decades of my very different life choices and experiences (see my previous comment). Were Twin's volition driving this article's composition (and eventual publication), it would have been done over a decade ago =D
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Love you, Brobro.
I think lots of people have heard of him. I agree, that he is probably not as famous as some of the other scientists of the era though.
Always the smarmy tone.
That’s what I got from reading about a third of that exchange.
I mean that’s clear from reading anything about the dude, but to _experience_ it so to speak is different.
A true mark of brilliance is someone who makes something difficult seem easy by framing it just right.
In this instance ChaGPT is just expanding upon his prompts. Not to diminish, it’s amazing what it’s capable of.