The Zurich researchers (pranksters?) demonstrated a compelling capability IMO.  
  To reasonable humans there's a point at which advocacy and activism just take 
too much time.   But what if it were just a matter of getting more energy and 
more GPUs?   Every reactionary on social media could be exhausted.  They would 
have no more time to cause trouble.   

-----Original Message-----
From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen
Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2025 7:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] absurd

Ha! Yeah. It reminds me of a problem I have with a colleague. Whenever the boss 
asks for it, they're happy to generate slides for a presentation or pretty 
pictures snapped from some app or another. But when you ask them for actual 
code (and data for that code), their answer is always something like "It's not 
quite ready to share" or "It's a research project and the code is all messy." 
[grrrr]

Alex *talking* to ChatGPT and trying to elicit the paradox by gum-flapping (or 
pulses through a voice coil) hearkens back to the idea that a thing can only be 
approximately understood through informal language and the problems with 
ordinary language philosophy.

It also targets Nick's understanding of what Wittgenstein was talking about. 
Persnickety old Ludwig wasn't using "ordinary language". When he says "The 
world is composed of facts, not things", he makes it fairly clear he's *not* 
talking about ontology, but (nearly) ungrounded logic, all syntax. At some 
point in Alex's chat, he/they talk/s about the unreasonable efficacy of math. 
And the paradox is so On the Tip of its Voice Coil, I could barely stand it.

On 5/1/25 6:41 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Did they establish a coordinate and geometry system for the hands?    I would 
> have asked for source code to a simulation using Bullet physics and had the 
> game engine detect the point of collision.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen
> Sent: Thursday, May 1, 2025 6:14 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [FRIAM] absurd
> 
> This is what I imagine y'all are doing when you chat with LLMs:
> 
> Confusing ChatGPT With an Impossible Paradox 
> https://youtu.be/1qbiCKrbbYc?si=V8U_mioTmlaDpynM
> 
> At times, it smacks of a Monty Python skit.
> 
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