It is pretty wild that we live in a time where bottled intelligence, (I've been saying bottled cognition and now I wonder if that is the same thing. I think perhaps intelligence and cognition are different things) exists. One day we'll crack human level intelligence (and with luck the alignment…

Yep I agree. I've been chatting with GPT-4 (the paid subscription) and I haven't been able to ask it a question where it didn't exhibit a theory of mind. Now given it was trained on human literature and most humans have a theory of mind, one could say it is…

Interesting. I also don't see why vision would be critical for AGI unless one's definition is 'computers that can do what people can do, and that think like people, and are people except machines'. There are humans on this planet right now who were born without the ability to see…

Definitely a country being further divided. No argument there. People failing to agree to disagree, can't argue with that either. There being no compromise in the middle is obvious. I don't support either party. …

One of things about EV's here in Australia is that charging stations are indeed rare, and distances between places are large. Always. Only place where things are close is in the cities. Which doesn't mean I don't think EV's are great, but here, hybrids are the thing people are accepting…

I get that kids like to play games, and that all of us generally prefer to invest time in things that interest us. So I ponder if the AI based learning systems will be able to assess and deliver what a student finds interesting, while also being aware of a…

I am sure we all learn from our experiences, especially if those experiences hurt. Pain seems to be a great way to lock in an experience as a valuable lesson. …

I never got into Twitter. Was too chaotic for me. I'm after a calmish life, not ADHD inducing info splatter. I also didn't join Threads. And like you, I use FB for a couple of groups. I do use Marketplace a lot. I also use Instagram. I can say that not being particularly active on social media doesn't seem to have impacted my life too much so I doubt there'll ever be a platform I am go go go active on.

Elon definitely thinks he can do everything better than everyone else. He bought some old earth boring machines and declared he would make a hyperloop, which ended up a tunnel with some Teslas in it in Vegas. So not a win. He said he'd make Twitter unfiltered, then realised he…