Diaspora by Greg Egan, it's one of the best thought out take on what a post human society could look like. Lots of amazing ideas in the book.

Actually we do know that there are diminishing returns from scaling already. Furthermore, I would argue that there are inherent limits in simply using correlations in text as the basis for the model. Human reasoning isn't primarily based on language, we create an internal model of the world that acts as a shared context. The language is rooted in that model and that's what allows us to communicate effectively and understand the actual meaning behind words. Skipping that step leads to the problems we're seeing with LLMs.

That said, I agree they are a tool, and they obviously have uses. I just think that they're going to be a part of a bigger tool set going forward. Right now there's an incredible amount of hype associated with LLMs. Once the hype settles we'll know what use cases are most appropriate for them.

Right, I find LLMs are fundamentally no different from Markov chains. It doesn't mean they're not useful, they're a tool that's good for certain use cases. Unfortunately, we're in a hype phase right now where people are trying to apply them for a lot of cases they're terrible at and where better tools already exist to boot.

Should the research he's discussing also be disregarded? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229

That's what happens when you start drinking your own kool aid thinking that Russian army is on the brink of collapse fighting with shovels.

I mean how else are they supposed to ensure continued western support?

IDF firing at Irish peacekeepers with no response from the administration would be a fitting capstone humiliation for Biden.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/10/10/israel-fire-unifil-peacekeepers-southern-lebanon-irish-idf/

colonizer

fully automated luxury communism on the way :)

Saying something can be proven in principle isn't very useful in practical terms. The fact of the matter is that the real world is simply too complex for the human mind to fully understand from first principles. Science is fundamentally about creating models of the world that are useful approximations of reality, it's not a black and white thing. Asimov explains this well here https://mvellend.recherche.usherbrooke.ca/Asimov_anglosaboteurs.pdf

The link I used clearly shows what people mean by the western world, the fact that it doesn't include Japan or Korea isn't the own that you seem to think it is. Of course, I never expect any sort of intelligent response here. lol indeed

🤡 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world