Leo Gura

@Ero I understand science deeper than any scientist. No scientist has ever explained science as deeply as me. Scientists cannot even imagine what I understand about how science works. But, I do not know the technical minutia of anything. I do not even care. As far as AI, of course I am not an AI expert. I am talking about AI as a social hype phenomenon. I am talking about the sociological and investing aspects of AI. I know you guys have not invented AGI. I do not have the gift of yap, I have the gift of understanding. Also, keep in mind that the stuff I share on my blog about AI is a tiny fraction of what I have studied. I don't share everything with you.

I am not kidding at all. If I see that someone is too closedminded to learn from me, I will stop letting them have access to me. My time is valuable and I will not waste it debating with closedminded. If I was not on this forum, I would not care. But since I am here, there must be limits. Any other teacher would do the same. No serious teacher will endlessly argue with closedmindedness. If you cannot learn what is being taught, the class is too advanced for you.

But what does this say about AGI and the bubble? Does your direct experience explain whether the bubble will pop?

@Ero You found a couple of things that you can ridicule me on and blown them out of all proportion. The net result of that will be that you deprive yourself of deeper understanding and teachings. I have never said that you can't use mysticism to deepen science. Of course you can. That's what I teach. My criticisms of science have been very sharp, so I can see how you take that as caricature. However, every point I make about science is still valid. That can make it seem like I am anti-science but I'm really not. I just never talk about the valid parts of science. I am also not anti-AI. I am anti AI hype and mechanical madness. How you do know what homework I have done? Just because my view differs from yours on AI does not mean I haven't done homework. Your views of me are very much of your own making. "Weasles, bigots, and rats" -- you lack a sense of humor about this.

But it's not stupid. This is a common issue that many people will have with learning this material. So I am happy to address it. There are good lessons all around here. It's not argument, it's ultimately about proper understanding.

You. Because you expect unreasonable things of me. You expect me to not get things wrong just because I teach epistemology. That is not what was ever promised you. There is no mismatch at all. I have never been above mistakes or self-deception. That's exactly the attitude I was talking about. You really think I don't have more profound things to teach? Then you really are kidding yourself. Your mind is already closed to learning. All I want from you is guys is open minds, and you struggle to do it.

Not comparable to anti-vax. AI is over-hyped, over-invested, and the science on it sucks. I have done plenty of research on AI. I know its fundamental limitations despite all the hype. I ban people who are too closedminded to learn.

If you think that epistemology means you will get everything right, you are kdding yourself. That is not what epistemology ever meant. In the future I will teach such radical and advanced things that I will lose plenty of you. Because most of you are not openminded enough. But I will still teach it. I already know many of you are too closedminded to reach Alien Consciousness. I warned you guys before that you have not learned everything I have to teach. But it is easy to convince yourself that you have. No one will teach what I teach. So be careful. It will be your loss.

It isn't horrible. That is the ego's opinion.

In other news, the price of gold is relatively good right now. Gold looks like a great investment opp right now. Now is an ideal time to cash out tech stock and crypto into gold. If you wait too long it might get too late. Don't get distracted by all the AI debate. The market is historically overpriced and AGI is not coming soon.

Dude, I posted in this thread several times that I am open to hearing counter-arguments. Don't try to portray me as some kind of bigot. I could be wrong about AI. I am just thinking out loud here. Epistemology does not guarantee you will have the correct view on every topic. I can be wrong about stuff. My arguments are not comparable to anti-vax arguments at all. It is too hard to be right about every damn thing.

I don't think some of you guys understand how bipolar works. Bipolar means you are normal most of the time, but have occassional manic peaks and depressive lows. Occassional is the keyword there. Bipolar does not mean you are always batshit manic. A bipolar person seems normal most of the time. You can't tell someone is bipolar from one interview. I could be bipolar and you guys would not know it.

You expect me to trust science on AI? What kind of fool do you take me for?

Are you serious? Look at all these billionaires, they're rats in wheels.

I don't use AI for text.

They have actually conducted tests on this, and they found AI reduces programmer efficiency by something around 20%. But I'm sure you can debate this and find contrary data. The problem is you can't trust any of the authorities on this topic. Everyone is getting paid off to hype AI, and the scientists do bad science so you can't trust their AI studies.

For Eternity

I am still figuring out how to teach it. It requires an entire course full of foundational preliminary material. So it is going to be part of a course. It will not be a main channel video.

I saw that Justin one. Such entitlement.

AI has some kind of intelligence, but it ain't AGI intelligence. This is easily shown with tests. This is not even controversial at this point. There is a difference in kind here, not just degree. Meta's former chief AI researcher explains this. Yann LeCun. LLM architecture is not capable of AGI. The mystery is, how useful can the current architecture be in the real world? That's an open question. My bet is that it will be less useful than people hope. But I could be wrong about that.

1) That is not why I ban or unMod anyone. 2) You guys are really hung up on that one forum post. It was a hasty post that I regret making. I share raw, personal, aspirational stuff on this forum sometimes. I am sometimes eager so share a new thing I just discovered or am working on. I do get things wrong sometimes. Especially in a forum post. My standards for rigor in a forum post is much lower than a video, blog, or course. I don't even consider my forum posts to be my official body of work. I use this forum to think through my newest ideas out loud. This forum serves as a sounding-board for my ideas. Not all ideas survive. 3) You should instead be focused on all the other amazing stuff I shared with you. Be careful not to be so critical and cynical that you shoot yourself in the foot, depriving yourself of valuable insights.

Well, I wasn't seeking that out, I sorta stumbled into it.

Psychedelic

Nope. Nope. Nope. Don't want that in my mind.

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