On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 06:34:23AM -0700, PGC wrote: > You would think that chess players are capable of some amount of > conditional reasoning. "If I poison my opponent, then there'll be all kinds > of scrutiny on my person! Including camera footage used against me." But at > any level lower than Top 10 or 20 in the world, making a living is very > difficult, when they have to pay for travel to tournaments, accommodation > etc. while the top guys get everything for free.
Yeah, the story is strange. One would expect that chess players be more rational. She could not possibly dream of poisoning her way to the finals, right? > Thanks for your reply on the LLM subject in the other thread, Tomasz. It > does seem to be a bubble from some points of view. At the same time, it > seems a matter of national defense for others. I am reluctant to call it a "la bulle", even if it quite possibly is one. But using a word suggests that something less significant had beed inflated. However, I think that actually there is some interesting tech burried under the pile of this optimistic- -pessimistic- -horroristic- -slur. This interesting something could, with long lasting dedication (say, ten years?) and certain amount of money (but nowhere as big as what is being inveshted by inveshtors), could deliver some interesting results. Interesting like, maybe some kind of progress - better understanding, better processing of Universe etc. Not in a sense that it would have paid for many yachts. "La bulle" is a term, I believe, coming from inveshtor-sprache. They are meat, think like meat, do not care much about progress. They know how to pump, dump. cashout and run away, so they probably would be inclined to think of business as something akin to crime rather than gardening (how does it look, to pump a garden and expect it to deliver ten or hundred times as much - I say it looks cretinish and garden will be fuctked). OTOH, perhaps all humanity is like this, just not everybody has money to perform inveshting. And humanity does not seem to care too much about progress either. So even if it could have been prevented from poof... Also, this is nice summary of where we are at the moment, at least from my point of view: [ The future of AI/ML depends on the reality of today – and it's not pretty https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/27/opinion_ai_ml/ ] -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/ZtJyDCOJvBP0eN9g%40tau1.ceti.pl.
