Eric Weinstein is right about one thing, and it’s important, LLMs are stochastic parrots because they mimic humans, and 99% of what humans do is stochastic parroting. Yet that is an artefact of our societies and cultures, and it doesn’t have to be so.
“Better is a day in the lifetime of one who perceives the rise and fall of things than a lifetime of one who is not knowing”.
“When you dance your dance along an edge in spacetime, is that when you meet your maker?”.
Strongly worded statements
Don’t feed infants
They hardly make a meal
For healthy adults
With added sugar and salt
From the nonexistent market
Strongly worded statements
Are worthless to the children
There’s only one universal constant that is absolute and not referenced to other ‘constants’, and that is that everything changes. Even wildflowers. And photographs. So in truth, everything is unknown — and unknowable — until/unless you collapse the wave function and go relative/subjective.
Here’s an Ethiopian pancake.
Sometimes logic is futile. Sometimes, speaking your mind is the one thing which ensures you will not be heard.