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My biggest question as always is "what specific piece of evidence would make you change your mind"

Off the top of my head:

  • LLMs becoming actually useful for hypothesis generation in my agent-foundations research.
  • A measurable "vibe shift" where competent people start doing what LLMs tell them to (regarding business ideas, research directions, etc.), rather than the other way around.
  • o4 zero-shotting games like Pokémon without having been trained to do that.
  • One of the models scoring well on the Millennium Prize Benchmark.
  • AI agents able to spin up a massive codebase solving a novel problem without human handholding / software engineering becoming "solved" /
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Would you say that brain is a modular system because the environment it's meant to model is modular? E.g. social systems as a collection of modules (humans).

Wouldn't this be exactly what you'd expect given that they are modular? Modular as in flexible and re-usable in different contexts for different purposes?

Why would more uncertainty = bigger cluster? Wouldn't uncertainty be expressed by using smaller clusters? I.e. if you're uncertain about a cluster you fall-back on a smaller subset of things that you are more certain pertain to that classification?