Cody/Glen -
I like this conceit of dreaming as disinhibited/discursive next-token
generation.
As a sometimes *lucid* dreamer myself, I feel as if that is what is very
close to what is going on for me... my best lucid dreaming is
hypnapompic... happening as I awake or as I drift in and out
One of the things we could easily try is cumulative, iterative prompting,
particularly with some of the lower scoring responses. Dreams are nothing but
lower scoring responses, right? While you're sleeping, your
evaluation/selection mechanism is inhibited, which allows you to invest a
little
I asked ChatGPT if it dreamed and it said that it didn't. However, is
adversarial training of neural networks much different than dreaming?
A new class from MITX showed up in my email today. It is called *Minds and
Machines: An introduction to philosophy of mind, exploring consciousness,
reality,
Great observations as usual Glen... I have lapsed into *listening* to
almost all long-form writing, whether fiction or non and it
definitely distorts (torts?) my perception/conception of the
material/subject/message. A corollary to McLuhan's Medium/Message
duality?
I find the
Both keyboards and pencils are part of our extended phenotype and play
(multiple) roles in interoception, including the induction of
inter-subjectivity. I've forgotten who it is, but there's someone on this list
who *listens* to our posts, rather than reads them. I tried that with a blog
post
Read Blood Meridian, Nick.
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On Mon, Sep 4, 2023, 1:13 PM Nicholas Thompson
wrote:
> Hi, Steve,
>
> Thanks for your observations concerning bad hand writing and early typing
> as shaping The Mind, for better
Hi, Steve,
Thanks for your observations concerning bad hand writing and early typing
as shaping The Mind, for better or for worse. My handwriting is hopeless.
I cannot even read my own notes. Not sure what it has done to my mind, but
it is something else that we share.
I know I am bending the
Great list Carl! And more interesting yet to me:
/I would like to feed.../
/...into the AI and see what millennium long sci-fi it could turn out. /
I'm definitely fascinated by the implied interpolation (and
extrapolation?) an LLM can do in what is by definition firstly
*linguistic*
Gregory Benford's "Galactic Center Saga".
Greg Bear's "Darwin's Radio" and "The Way" series.
Benford, Bear, and David Brin also extended Asimov's "Foundation" series -
more stuff actually happens
Larry Niven's "Ringworld" and all its spinoffs and prequels, anything with
the character Louis Wu in
I had posted a link to an article about a mass shooting in Norway in
response to a claim that most mass shootings occur in the U.S. I can't
find that post so I'll repeat it. This was only one attack but 77 people
were killed.
food is awesome. In
>> South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam and Japan as well.
>>
>> -J.
>>
>>
>> ---- Original message
>> From: Steve Smith
>> Date: 9/3/23 8:59 PM (GMT+01:00)
>> To: friam@redfish.com
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Science F
l.
>
> -J.
>
>
> Original message
> From: Steve Smith
> Date: 9/3/23 8:59 PM (GMT+01:00)
> To: friam@redfish.com
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Science Fiction Books
>
> Jochen -
>
> I thought of you more than few times on my long walkabout through
> Re
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Original message From: Steve Smith Date:
9/3/23 8:59 PM (GMT+01:00) To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Science
Fiction Books
Jochen -
I thought of you more than few times on my long walkabout through
Red/Purple-state 'murrica... mostly your concerns
Jochen -
I thought of you more than few times on my long walkabout through
Red/Purple-state 'murrica... mostly your concerns a year or two ago
about traveling to the US "because gun violence". I was in the heart
of "gun country" through this trip and saw a few artifacts of that which
I have read "Highway of Eternity" from Clifford D. Simak this weekend, one of
the books from the golden age of science fiction which is comparable to "The
city and the Stars" from Arthur C. Clarke and "The end of eternity" from Isaac
Asimov. Both belong to my favorite books. Modern authors
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