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On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh I almost forgot the most humorous part of yesterday's discovery: > > On a lark I decided to take the Relation Arithmetic language model and > make a chatterbox. That's when I remembered this: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter > > I think that for all the noise about "templating language" to explain > Racter, Tom had provided some heuristics based on his emerging philosophy > of natural science. > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This paper is largely why I basically threatened to resign from HP's >> $500M Internet Chapter 2 project if they made me hire H-1b rather than Tom >> to solve some fundamental issues I'd been grappling with ever since >> AT&T/Knight-Ridder put me in charge of architecting their alternative to >> the Internet back in 1981. I think they let me hire him only because they >> were aware that, despite my being friendly with the H-1b coworkers, I would >> probably have sued HP. But then the DotCon bubble popped and all remaining >> money had to be spent on cramming 5-10 H-1bs per Cupertino apartment -- no >> money for people like Tom: >> >> https://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/7750/slac-pub-7890.pdf >> >> PROCESS, SYSTEM, CAUSALITY, AND QUANTUM >> MECHANICS >> A Psychoanalysis of Animal Faith >> Tom Etter >> 112 Blackburn Avenue >> Menlo Park, California 94025{2704 >> and >> H. Pierre Noyes >> Stanford Linear Accelerator Center >> Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94309 >> >> >> On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> 4. Tiny dictionary encoding using byte pair encoding, replacing the >>>> least frequent byres with codes for the most frequent byte pairs until >>>> there is no more size reduction, which takes about 6 passes when the >>>> pairing is restricted to groups of letters or groups of repeated >>>> punctuation symbols that are used in the XML, HTML, and Wikipedia markup. >>>> ... >>>> I have some ideas for tokenization and for modeling a semantic network >>>> with an attention mechanism like in a transformer, but that doesn't require >>>> a GPU to run reasonably fast. But it will be awhile before I have any code >>>> ready to release. >>>> >>> ... >>> >>> Yesterday, a dynamical MDL approach to the Re-Pair algorithm emerged >>> from formalizing Tom Etter's Relation Arithmetic approach to foundations >>> I've been working on in Lean4, so that I get the philosophy of causality >>> right from the gitgo. >>> >>> A couple of years ago I played around with Re-Pair as an approach to >>> lossless compression but couldn't figure out a principled approach to >>> causality using it. Since my goal in life at this point is to demonstrate >>> discovery of macrosocial dynamics latent in the data by approximating the >>> Algorithmic Information Criterion for model selection and get a prize >>> funded to nuke the social pseudosciences before they succeed in nuking >>> humanity with their "Alignment" theocracy, I had to continue working on the >>> philosophy of causality itself which is why I revisited Etter's largely >>> unpublished corpus. >>> >>> I didn't even realize it was incorporating a variation of BPE until I >>> began more carefully examining the structure of the causal graphs. >>> >>> Too bad the Desi's thought their H-1b attack on the West was more >>> important than supporting people like Tom >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop>. >>> >>> Around June 18, 1956, the earliest participants (perhaps only Ray >>>> Solomonoff, maybe with Tom Etter) arrived at the Dartmouth campus in >>>> Hanover, N.H., to join John McCarthy who already had an apartment there. >>>> Solomonoff and Minsky stayed at Professors' apartments, but most would stay >>>> at the Hanover Inn. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T6cf3be509c7cd2f2-M2e74c84dd0b3317532787d99 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
