This prompt reminds me of the recent book from Matt Strassler named "Waves in
an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean". It sounds
interesting but they don't have it in the libraries here yet and the hardcover
is too expensive.https://www.harvard.com/book/waves_in_an_impossible_sea/-J.
-------- Original message --------From: glen <[email protected]> Date:
5/30/24 7:00 PM (GMT+01:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM] words
Hm. I suppose it's worth a shot. If we prompt with "All energy in the universe
is expressed in motion. All motion is expressed in waves. All waves are curved.
So where do the straight lines come from to make the Platonic solids?" Then
it's possible the LLM would complete that with "There are no straight lines. So
when I took the flower of life and opened it properly, I found all new wave
conjugations that expose the in-between spaces. It's the thing that holds us
all together." But I sincerely doubt it.But maybe by "have to have", you mean
that an LLM *could* be trained (and/or structured) to bias toward rare
expressions/concepts in its training set instead of more common ones.On 5/30/24
09:01, Marcus Daniels wrote:> I'm not going to watch Joe Rogan, 😊 but I think
LLMs don't have to have this homogenous mean problem. They capture a
distribution, so it is a question of the inference procedure to sample from it.
What is the (beam) search algorithm, how deep does it go, and what is the
sampling temperature.> > -----Original Message-----> From: Friam
<[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2024
1:09 PM> To: [email protected]> Subject: [FRIAM] words> > Terrence Howard |
Full Address and Q&A | Oxford Union
https://youtu.be/ca1vIYmGyYA?si=vhbtA5WUX1CV8LZH> > Joe Rogan Experience #2152
- Terrence Howard> https://youtu.be/g197xdRZsW0?si=kFTa7lQJI1lKA6R1> > I just
can't help but wonder how many people, while listening to Howard talk, realize
they're interacting with a sick individual (who deserves compassion but does
not deserve gullibility). Or how many people are (like Rogan seems to have
been) ... uh ... hypnotized by Howard's well-crafted word salad. In this LLM
era, where many people, including some on this list, are enthralled by random
bullshit, it seems like a reasonable thing to wonder about. Luckily, the clear
cognitive power Howard exhibits puts him in some kind of rare quantile. So our
LLMs, being driven mostly to a homogenous mean, their random bullshit will, by
definition, match those of us within 1 or a few sigma and suppress the weirdest
among us.> > Being a fan of steel-manning, I'm having a bit of a crisis. The
paradox of tolerance tells me that we absolutely must call bullshit at some
point, even if it's not ruthless. Those Oxford Union attendees danced around
egging him on and calling him out. Is this what the kids call "cringe"? Do we
just cringe and tolerate it? Or, like Rogan, pretend to credibility relying on
his weirdness to be so weird that it'll disappear into the tails? Or should we
be deplatforming the bullshit?> -- ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙
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