You tell us, what of it?
As far as I can tell, in some time engineering will need little of humans of any kind.
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As far as I can tell, in some time engineering will need little of humans of any kind.
That’s how long it takes to master something you are naturally resistant to.
Start with a journal, preferably hand written. Just sit down every morning, first thing, and any other time of day you can make it a ritual, and start writing.
Just write and write and write at first, and gradually structure for whatever you want to actually get done.
It will make you a better thinker, all around. Overcoming personal barriers always does, whether it is “getting started”, socializing, public speaking, whatever.
Just make getting to it your ritual and over time it becomes natural.
Our age has abandoned metered verse for prose. This affects the epic context greatly.
Of gods, Man, and beasts; of savage wrought and ascendant reach; tell us your tales of goddess of glories; speak your prose of divine aspects’ stories.
Let us hope in the age of slop there is still best works of Man yet to come.
Writing reappeared fifty years after the time of Homer, within a hundred years or so bringing on the “golden age” of Greek philosophy, if that tells you anything.
Homer did not invent the Iliad, though it is strongly arguable he and his “school” did wholly invent the Odyssey, at least the story in which lore was woven.
The Iliad was a small part of the “epic cycle”, which only survived in fragments referenced by later literary discussions.
All this said, there is some truth to what you have highlighted. A grand epic is one which speaks to an age, and it takes generations of telling to process this into a mind worthy of its ultimate composure.
It occurs to me, that while “madness” still exists today, the psychological conditions of times past have changed.
In the modern world we have more frames of reference and extreme behavior normalizes from the cloister of isolation.
Watching old movies from the 50s for instance reveals this phenomena, that even ordinary people developed prattling around in their own minds in ways somehow different than modern awareness allows.
Not to diminish the seriousness of “mood disorders”, I can only think that once upon a time being an intellectually and emotionally isolated genius would be harder on one’s development than the exposure granted in today’s world.
It is both the YAML and Markdown convention is it not?
Or are you referring to some other context?
The real concern is the mind trap, where humans naturally become set in their ways through comfort, convenience, and limited ideology such as learned helplessness.
In every demographic, there will be those lucky, or motivated to break away, or inspired. And in every demographic there will be those who simply stay the same until something makes them change.
I liken this circumstance to that of literacy. One can literally teach themselves anything through dedicated self learning. Few do. Those who do break out and into a new tier of some other constraint.
Field research verified!
In one I watch movies and other pointless timepass, in the other topics of intellectual curiosity.
It is insightful to see how various habits influence the suggestions, and how much of the similar garbage appears.
I also find that closing the browser or app clears the cache deck and repopulates it. When I’m doomscrolling and notice the exact same selection reordered, I close it and reopen and find some modified assortments.
Despite what is mainstream or widely favorable or regulated, all manner of divergent side tracks will also be happening, particularly anywhere there are incentivized interests.
All that said, I do not think LLMs will ever achieve “AGI”, however useful in animating compendiums of human understandings.
LLMs have trouble disagreeing with established human knowledge, bringing back something Bertrand Russell was famous for saying, regarding much of what we believe we know is merely what we agree to among ourselves. This is as true today. LLMs and humans alike favor agreeability over technical correctness.
True AGI will be more evident when there is more deductive reasoning proficiency. Finding and disputing examples of established knowledge may be such a sign.
Try “Sun Microsystems”!
(Link: https://www.hendrik-erz.de/post/should-you-use-sqlite)
In which the author clearly says:
> About a year ago I fervently advocated against using SQLite for storing research data, but was since proven absolutely wrong. In this article I explain where and why I was wrong, and share the real reasons why I think we shouldn't use SQLite for research: A lack of skills and time.
From the top of this article:
> Update 29 Aug 2022: There is now an update to this article where I acknowledge problems with the arguments I brought forth below. Please read the update here: Should you use SQLite?
Fulfillment has something to do with form to function, and feelings may be how one is self satisfied!
You can feel great about doing nothing, and feel like shoveling shit when doing what must be done.
I would rather shovel shit that is imperative than feel good about myself, though that’s just another form of self service as the arguments go!
Next point, are Trump supporters who criticized Sanders swinging this in positive light?
It sounds gimmicky, and I guess you have to wrap process in a tenable guise for wider consumption, though exercising ranges of perspectives in group problem solving does get the gears productively turning.
Are you fulfilled?
Or are you wasting what calls to you as your natural destiny?
How much better a curated knowledge distillation can you ask for?
There are multiple repositories with relevant materials, though this one is most evident.
https://github.com/anthropics/financial-services
Skills aren’t just for LLMs!
Haven’t we devs always dreamt of a common interface to query and introspect foreign APIs? Aren’t we lucky we stumbled into an “AI” that is founded upon human language and not some incomprehensible machine code? It seems to me LLMs only made the need for such a universality attractive. Such as so many circumstances where we will do things for our progeny which we would not (yet should have) done for ourselves !
I’ve felt the same thing about skills files, the first things juniors or onboarders should read to explicitly understand their own jobs!
An intelligent system would not “figure out physics” from a picture. There may be some relevance to a video, though in actuality an embodiment with sensors and actuators would be more realistic.
The difficulty with such “thought experiments” also involves dynamics of needs. Life forms need to feed, protect from the environment and predators, etc. Incentive (necessity) after all is the mother of invention!
I was quite shocked at how well the tiny minimal open source (IBM) model responded as a spiritual advisor to the question of a Jehovah’s Witness!
Btw, I think the “Big Bang” is poor science and as likely as creationism!
Edit: I said I was a Jehovah’s Witness and I would like to know how to deal with my many mistakes in life and I really got an earful! No condescension there!