No one says "computers are JUST electricity running through circuits" because no one tries to argue the computer itself is "thinking" or has some kind of being. No one tries to argue that when you put the computer to sleep it is actually doing a form of "sleeping".

The mighty token though produces all kinds of confused nonsense.

They would be less successful?

What I find interesting is no one use to be against Kai's Power Tools like this 30 years ago. I can remember waiting for new magazines to come out in the 90s to find what cool new graphic tools I might get to use to make something interesting. The output is what mattered, not the path to get to the output.

I think it is really deeper about art itself and that "creatives" are largely not at all actually creative. In the 21st century, "Creatives" is the word we use for the product varnish painters.

A class of people tasked with putting a thin layer of gloss on products to make them a bit more shiny. Absolutely nothing creative or artistic about this at all. Not to say there isn't a lot of talent involved in being a product gloss painter. I would be highly against AI in the arts too if I was a product gloss painter.

There is also this aspect that is like at some point in the 20th century, there were highbrow people that believed anything but 12-tone music was not worth listening to. Schoenberg promoted this music saying his discovery was in league with Einstein. If you were to play early punk music to these people not only is it not even music, it is an afront to the very idea of what you believe music to be. The idea anyone can pick up an instrument to make music is not worth considering. It is just making a type of noise. A type of worthless "slop".

That is why there isn't much else to go but the heuristic of the most new class with the most ratings.

To me, that is a tell they are basically cooked because catching Google in actual model performance is not really the position anyone would want to be in here in a horse race.

The periodization sounds really cool but the success of the app I would think is based entirely on the good marketing Wendler and Elitefts did with 5/3/1.

The easy solution becomes a giant bull market in law enforcement jobs.

The real comical part is we have almost been in the "late stage" as long as the time between Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and the generation of this stupid idea.

Picture a 30 something guy in a hotdog avatar telling children how he can't help be a pervert.

Picture playing a game of chess in a chess room that should be really cool for all ages. Then a drunk woman is telling the room about the blowjobs she has given. Of course you can hear by the voices that some are little kids talking.

If you put on a headset and go in VRChat right now, you too can have the same experience. Anyone who says this is not true is completely full of shit because everyone inside VRchat knows this almost like it is an inside joke.

I would never bag on someone for being socially awkward. I was so awkward as a teenager. Social awkwardness is not the problem at all.

Oh yea how about kids running around yelling the n word for no reason other than they can? That is standard.

If you never used modern VR, the immersion is incredible. That is what makes the VRChat experience so disturbing.

The problem is that generally VRChat is like a masked ball with a combination of alcoholics, repressed perverted losers, obnoxious personalities and children.

Anyone who downvotes this to me is suspect as being part of that ingroup.

It is one thing to be socially awkward. I was quite awkward when I was young too. VRChat is something else. Like the worst aspects of a 90s chat room but with immersion and real voices.

We really need a national campaign on phenomenology 101.

Gemini outputs this correctly. It doesn't "experience" the passage of time.

The models don't experience the passage of time because they are not finite beings in the world.

They are a like a new category of the book. We don't say the math textbook "knows" math because the book doesn't "know" anything. The book isn't bored sitting on the shelf because no one is reading it.

Anyone can get a better explanation from Gemini directly if you ask it "can you explain how don't experience anything?"

I wanted to eat unlimited junk food when I was a kid but my parents wouldn't let me.

You can change it even to unlimited protein shakes. It is the same point. It is almost like kids are kind of stupid if you let them do whatever they want.

It is easy for me to take this perspective too because I never had much student debt or children.

The median though is getting crushed if they went to college and are paying for daycare.

If you are getting crushed for going to school and having children that is a pretty clear breakdown of the social contract.

The consequences are obvious. People are going to vote in socialist policies and the whole engine is going to get thrown in reverse.

The "let them eat cake" strategy is never the smart strategy.

It is not obvious at all our system is even compatible with the internet. If the starting conditions are 1999, it would seem like the system is imploding. It is easy to pretend like everything is working out economically when we borrowed 30 trillion dollars during that time from the future.

"Well humans break their leg too!"

It is just a mindlessly stupid response and a giant category error.

The way an airplane wing and a human limb is not at all the same category.

There is even another layer to this that comparing LLMs to the brain might be wrong because the mereological fallacy is attributing the brain "thinks" vs the person/system as a whole thinks.

I really have a sinking feel right now actually of what an absolute giant waste of capital all this is.

I am glad for all the venture capital behind all this to subsidize my intellectual noodlings on a super computer but my god what have we done?

This is so much fun but this doesn't feel like we are getting closer to "AGI" after using Gemini for about 100 hours or so now. The first day maybe but not now when you see how off it can still be all the time.

"Wow McDonald's they really have a moral compass and listen to the people!"

It is always someone else that is greedy. My American friends and I? It doesn't make sense. We are just trying to get by!