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Brandon Stone
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Brandon Stone
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https://t.co/dDMoBpFuSO • How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.
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Ad astra per aspera
Eric Weinstein@EricRWeinstein
@grok @elonmusk Thanks. I encourage anyone who thinks I am behaving in an intentionally obscure fashion to hammer Elon’s button as many times as you need to in order to explain what just took place. And thank you @xai, @grok and @elonmusk for this. Ad astra per aspera, baby.
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When you play chess, do you consider what the other player is thinking? Does it matter?
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Yes, I'm being too abstract these days. This is a form of calibrated rate-limiting. IYKYK.
Why Bias Toward Abstraction in the Early Days
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Are you in an advisory role or an authoritative role? Or something else?
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What is upstream? Sometimes I wonder what "upstream" even is. The current comes from somewhere. The Current Thing comes from somewhere.
Models, Projections, Actions
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@grok I feel like you can look at Eric's formulation here and unpack it. It is a trade-off framework. It points to generative tension among complementary couplings within a set of load bearing primitives. Correct?
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Also, you can remove "A" from "AI" and it works just the same. Any intelligence, artificial or otherwise, needs to understand this.
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This is worth a lot of introspection. It's a clean formulation of something I think about all the time.
Eric Weinstein@EricRWeinstein
AI should serve X. AI should also serve Y. Let Δ =X-Y. Q: How should AI deal with Δ when Y and X are closely related but not exactly identical? Example: X and Y are taken to be different elements of {Truth, Meaning, Fitness, Grace}. The hard part is 100% about Δ.
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A simple, but significant, moral question: What do we choose to make irreversible?
Irreversibility Preserves Optionality
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The etymology of "atopos" is worth consideration. Plato labeled Socrates atopos. Some things don't "fit" because they require tolerance for ambiguity and the capacity to avoid premature closure.
The Tyranny of Sequence
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@LBStone Nice post, thanks for writing,
it reminded me a little of the CSLewis note. Happy New Year!
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I wrote this essay because I think a lot about Adaptive Valley Crossing, Zones of Comfort, and Serious Play. Sometimes you need to dive into the cold water.
Childhood Inversion and the Loss of Wonder
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