Hi friends, welcome back. In the first two posts of this series, we have discussed pain, pleasure, then danger, and discomfort. Now let’s switch gear and talk about something more concrete: technology. My aim is that after this you will start seeing all the different addictech & anestechia around us, and find yourself more consciously…
Last week I stumbled upon this post on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/C9QKQ9CqtRl/ For accessibility purpose, here’s the text in the image: soracities: – “the ‘humans are inherently selfish’ fanclub can genuinely and in all honesty go to hell. i once came back from a school yard where the kids had heaped piles of leaves and cut wildflowers…
Hi friends, I’ve been looking at this one chart from this report by Our World in Data about time use. I’m sure you’ve seen different sections and different charts out of this report being shared online since this was released a while ago. But my mind keeps going back to this one chart in particular:…
I have a useful test to evaluate claims on LLM’s ability to “understand”. This example shows that at this current moment, even one of the smartest LLMs, GPT-4o, is truly “merely” a heap of statistical operations and is not as “intelligent” as humans. Here I asked [1] GPT-4o to merge the different definitions I have…