One consequence of all this is a hit to consensus reality.
As you say, an author can modify a text to communicate based on a particular value function (i.e. "a customized message that would be most effective".)
But the recipient of a message can also modify that message depending on their own (or rather their personalised LLMs) value function.
Generative content and generative interpretation.
Eventually this won't be just text but essentially all media - particularly through use of AR goggles.
Interesting times?!
Also to add of interest "Creating a large language model of a philosopher"
http://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/GPT3Dennett.htm
One interesting quote "Therefore, we conclude that GPT-3 is not simply “plagiarizing” Dennett, and rather is generating conceptually novel (even if stylistically similar) content."
The first question is hardest to answer because their a lot of different ways that an LLM will help in writing a paper. Yes, there will be some people who don't, but over time they will become a minority.
The other questions are easier.
The straightforward answer is that right now, openAI have said that you should acknowledge its use in publication. If you acknowledge a source, then it is not plagiarism. So currently a practice for some journals is you have an author contribution list, where you list the different parts of an article and which author contrib...
One recent advancement in science writing (stemming from psychology through spreading) has been the pre-registered format and pre-registration.
Pre-registration often takes the form of a form - which effectively is a dialogue - where you have to answer a set of questions about your design. This forces a kind of thinking that otherwise might not happen before you run a study, which has positive outcomes in the clarity and openness of the thought processes that go into designing a study.
One consequence it can highlight that often we very unclear about how we ...
Some interesting ideas - a few comments:
My sense you are writing this as someone without lots of experience in writing and publishing scientific articles (correct me if I am wrong).
A question to me is whether you can predict what someone would say on a topic instead of writing about it. I would argue that the act of linearly presenting ideas on paper - "writing" - is a form of extended creative cognitive creation that is difficult to replicate. It woudn't be replicated by a avatar just talking to a human to understand their views. People don't write to con...
Vao highlights Ryan's journey as a prototype loser/sociopath-in-waiting to sociopath ascendency. In the academic world, both Ryan as loser and Ryan as sociopath don't exist. So is one of many ways the corporate america > academic mapping doesn't fit.
Partly because academic signals are hard to fake by pure posers or pure sociopaths.
Though going with your flow, I think the analysis is right in that academics are essentially clueless. But, within academics you can have the subdivisions, clueless-loser, clueless-clueless, clueless-sociopath.
I disagree on so...
In the American system its hard to get tenure being a loser, so it selects against losers.
But once tenured, you can easily turn into a loser.
A lot depends on the institution. At high prestige institutions its hard to manage as a loser, and you are going to select for more sociopaths and clueless. Top ranking institutions are going to have more sociopaths.
But at low ranking institutions you are going to find a different distribution - relatively more losers than clueless.
Also saw this on hacker news today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21660718
one comment "Lighting is a really hard business (especially residential)"
In terms of consumer product, I think something like this might be ideal:
But more like 300W instead of 28W. So taking the enclosure and remote control of the bathroom type light, with the LED setup of a floodlight. As for CRI, I guess it would be bad. How i
...The best solution I could find was LED security flood lights, e.g.
So this would be less than 100 dollars for approx 40000 lumen, with all in one enclosure including head sink, can be wired to mains or wall socket. Also with this design they can be angled.
Not adjustable in brightness or colour temperature, but my preference would be overhead lighting for day, and then inca
...Your argument against the idea that your belief that are 5 muscles of movement is a fake framework is a statement that that there are 5 muscles of movement. I don't find this convincing.
I mentioned there the psoas because of claims from some e.g. https://www.drnorthrup.com/psoas-muscle-vital-muscle-body/ :
...The psoas muscle (pronounced SO-as) may be the most important muscle in your body. Without this essential muscle group you wouldn’t even be able to get out of the bed in the morning!
In fact, whether you run, bike, dance, practice yoga, or just hang out
Just to add more to my original comment and to your reply.
I was wondering to what extent this related to other somatic therapies, such as alexander technique, Feldenkrais etc.. e.g. https://www.yogajournal.com/practice/somatics-yogas-west
So there are lots of people who are not only willing to think about these kinds of things, but they base entire careers from this.
Parts of it also reminded me of Eric Goodman's "foundation training", such as breathing to decompress the torso - very much breathing as "longer and stronger".
In Lesswrong parlance, my impressio
...Reminds me a bit of Will Johnson's stuff. E.g have a look here https://www.lionsroar.com/the-balanced-body-and-the-middle-way/amp/
a) Imagine a different post on LessWrong:
“Guys, let me share something with you I am really excited about. I have been studying the bible pretty hard, including reading several translations of the original Hebrew in my quest to master the Core Teachings of Jesus, and putting these teachings into practice (and I have reached Nebula Level 4.2, so know what I am talking about). Based on my experiences, and extensive discussions with a variety of my priests, I have figured out the core practice that Lord Jesus taught, and I am going to break it down for you in
...Is Buddhism just hip right now?
I think it's just that rationalists are not skeptics; we don't automatically dismiss things because they sound "woo". If Lord Jesus came up with a helpful mental technique, I'm all ears.
And yet, Batchelor has written several books on "what the Buddha really taught" and the true meaning of Buddhism.
People like to have a claim on "what the Buddha really taught", e.g. in this post "Though the Buddha taught one specific concentration technique..."
But we don't really know what the Buddha taught. We have scriptures from an oral tradition, compiled by many people centuries after the death of this figure, a figure for which we have very little historical evidence for, that probably did exist, but we don't really know when. He is a ghost.
Therefore, it seems a safer option not to state what "The Buddha" taught or what "Buddhism" (singular) is really about at its core.
I like the way that Stephen Batchelor put it:
...In the parable of the raft, the Buddha describes “a man in the course of a journey” who arrives at a body of water that he has to cross. Since there are no boats or bridges available, his only option is to assemble a raft out of the “grass, twigs, branches, leaves” and whatever other materials are to hand. Having bound them together, and “making an effort with his hands and feet” he manages to get across to the opposite shore. Despite its evident usefulness, he realises that there is no point in carrying the r
Would suggest using n = 1 methodologies. For example, switch between meditating every day for one week, then a week of not meditating. See: http://media.sethroberts.net/blog/pdf/2012-09-24-The-Growth-of-Personal-Science-Implications-For-Statistics.pdf
As I understand it, there is a psychological (Mahowald et al.) and philosophical (Shanahan) that machines can't "think" (and do related stuff).
I don't find Mahowald et al. always convincing because it suffers from straw manning LLM's - much of the claims about limitations of LLM's were based on old work which predates GPT-3.5/ChatGPT. Clearly the bulk of the paper was written before ChatGPT launched, and I suspect they didn't want to make substantial changes to it, because it would undermine their arguments. And I find the OP good at taking down a range of... (read more)