Re: [FRIAM] Slow AI

2024-01-29 Thread Steve Smith
>Though these were all experienced and confident men, the average year to year correlation in their results was 0.01.  The highly rewarded experts of finance have no real idea what they're doing, they are highly rewarded for an "illusion of skill"< One of my father-in-law's best friends was

Re: [FRIAM] Slow AI

2024-01-28 Thread Frank Wimberly
>Though these were all experienced and confident men, the average year to year correlation in their results was 0.01. The highly rewarded experts of finance have no real idea what they're doing, they are highly rewarded for an "illusion of skill"< One of my father-in-law's best friends was a man

Re: [FRIAM] Slow AI

2024-01-28 Thread Steve Smith
REC - So prophetic!   love the coining of "gold" goo... and the idea of psuedopodia...   I'm sure I read this 12.5 years ago, but like the good LLM I am, I lost any possibility of attribution as soon as I'd trained on it! -SAS On 1/28/24 3:07 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: From: *Roger Critchl

Re: [FRIAM] Slow AI

2024-01-28 Thread Roger Critchlow
From: Roger Critchlow Date: Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:10 AM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Next Dictator To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group I keep thinking that the next big dictator isn't new. Das Kapital is an artificial life form which by a process of natural selection pursues

Re: [FRIAM] Slow AI

2024-01-28 Thread Roger Critchlow
Das Kapital is our most successful experiment in artificial life, but it's still feral and no one has the least clue how to domesticate it, and the grey goo we're constructing is a mass of collateralized debt instruments. -- rec -- On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 11:03 AM Steve Smith wrote: > > https:

[FRIAM] Slow AI

2024-01-28 Thread Steve Smith
https://doctorow.medium.com/solar-is-a-market-for-financial-lemons-ea00699fe0a2 I suspect the opinions among the members of this list range widely on Doctorow's work, my general response to him is a guarded positiv