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It's due to its training. It was training to find statistical CORRELATION within data. The famous: Hitler was evil because he drinks water, therefore everyone that drinks water is evil. It's literally how reward function of the the machine learning model they use to create the LLM models, it's rewarded to be able to autocomplete plausibly the text, and they calibrate it to not memorize it verbatim too much so it gives it flexibility to hallucinate new content. They manage it like a cake recipe of curated text and deranged almost unfiltered internet dumps, somehow when they curate it just right during training it gives it the properties it they got currently. The issue with that approach, which they have tried to solve over and over again starting with DeepSeek-R1 when they introduced thinking mode fine-tuning via reinforcement learning by simply talking to itself until it was able to score higher on tests. It works good for things that have clear action and effects like coding, but it fails miserably for learning how to learn, for example, given a new esotetic language that it never saw in its training and instructions to code in it, they cannot do it, their ability to "learn" during a conversation is shallow and dependent on training. Humans somehow are capable of using their imagination and problem solving skills to come up with their own internal simulation of the world in real time, they need billions of dollars of synthetic material to do the same a child can do because evolution did imbue into us that ability otherwise we wouldn't have survived, we had to deal with learning real cause and effects. But even then, humans can see fake cause and effects where there are none. Like all the weird religions and fantastical ideas, prejudice and superstition. Even in humans seeing cause and effect clearly is very hard. Like how Leo Gura is going on this rampage towards the limitations of science, of how science is so caught up in mapping causes and effects that it believes it can know the substrate of the world/universe via observation from inside of the universe.

Yeah that's true. But I was leaning more towards like you mentioned, the person prompting and managing the AI was in the old days the equivalent to an LLM lol. I think this all is all obvious to you at this point what I'll say below, but I'll leave it here for the sake of the discussion because I think those are important skills when coding with LLMs. AI can write code better than I ever did right now, but that's because I already had done my mental homework of thinking through complex problems and developing my software development mental maturity. Instead, what I meant there, is people that simply don't have in themselves that software development maturity of like... Testability. Not taking what it said at face value. Making debugging cycle as fast as possible. Not allowing the AI to introduce bugs and break old features Not going YOLO and trying to implement too much too fast, but also not wasting time specifying too much.: Knowing how big the "bite" / granularity / precision level the AI needs, and knowing when to bite more at a time, or less, etc. git hygiene: Not letting the AI write into the git history "I fixed this" when it's in fact broken. Differentiating between attempt and success. git branches: When to plow through on a single branch many features fast or even in a single prompt, and when to break it down on another branch so you can easily ignore or integrate that new feature when it's ready if it's large. knowing when the AI is going to a stupid direction that will make the code less maintainable Knowing when to ask the AI in chat mode only. No code. Just going meta with the AI and asking its opinion of what to do next, reviewing it and helping make broad decisions and analyze architectural trade-offs. Instead of just YOLOing more features. managing your own todo lists, list of priorities, and prompts and not letting it get lost in messy chats that might need to be reversed and the AI losing its precision on what you asked it on long contexts. Managing codebase bloat so the AI has a easier time ingesting into its context window and wasting less tokens / plan limits. Decoupling vs Coupling parts. When to duplicate and when to go DRY. Having the wisdom of when to continue fixing the current codebase and when to start from scratch with better defined specifications learned from that previous version, etc. Someone developing this experience is obviously better at coding than someone that just go yolo and has to start begging the LLM to stop breaking their code and don't even know how to use git.

AI will wipe idiots that don't know shit about software architecture, refactoring garbage code and dropping bullshit requirements, and are just typing monkeys. Or idiots that only know how to use LLMs to get as far as it gets on its own, and can't get the AI unstuck. As long as LLMs can't get themselves unstuck, IT WILL NEVER replace a human that can get it unstuck. The hardest thing about code was never writing the code, it's what code to write. That's what differentiates between the human equivalent of an LLM spitting out generic code with no taste and whoever hired them to give them instructions. The worse part isn't even that, most programmers are peasants carrying on their backs whoever controls the distribution channel and network of high paying clients. An LLM will just shorten the path between some of those clients doing the job on their own and having to do the work of a programmer themselves wasting time baby sitting an LLM making mistakes.

If a clinically low iq person exists, but they have high emotional intelligence or discipline, they can get more done than a higher iq person with crippling anxiety and inconsistency. There isn't in the world some kind of magical scoreboard of what is of value and what isn't, SPECIALLY in capitalism. Morally, we might make those distinctions but it's highly contextual. Capitalism doesn't give a shit about that. I've seen people on YouTube that told their stories and I believe by what they said they have some mental disability by being slow to learn, but somehow they still had verbal fluency and world knowledge. How? Problem solving skills are likely not completely tied to all regions of the brain. We know very well for example, social intelligence can be the opposite to traditional problem solving like for autistic people, they can focus at something very niche and specific and drop social bullshit that gets in the way. The issue is being completely shitty at everything. IQ is just what traditionally an IQ test measures, it's not all areas of the brain or life decisions, personal environment, inclinations, etc. Look at someone like Chris Langan, that guy very likely has some of the highest IQs in the world, yet he's sort of this fundamentalist Christian and didn't know how to navigate university bureaucracy and had to quit because he came from a super poor rural area american family.

I did already reach a plateau in my contemplative and meditation practices due to my other behavioral patterns getting in the way. Most of what I need is very strategic contemplative practice in silence that is closer to stoicism, not necessarily something like strong determination sitting, or practices seeking non-duality. Those makes me feel not like engaging a lot in material pursuits because it puts into my mind a strong sense of their futility.

lol. I think I had one of those once. I used once meditation to get out out of some really messed up negative mood. But for me it hit a plateau where it's not really going much further. It just became this nice thing that made me less reactive, but it has come a comfort zone where it's not translating much further into other areas that requires complex decision making

That's literally what I said in the previous sentence. My nuanced point that I'm trying to make, is that, for most people meditation hits a plateau that they never get over. They can only go over that once they equilibrate their psyche further with other things.

If you're good you're not mixing up your expectations of meditation, and you believe that your problems are just issues that can be targeted by meditation. The wisdom here is knowing what meditation helps with and what it doesn't. That's the source of the misery.

Most people just meditate or even think of personal development at all for personal accomplishment because they are stressed out, this forum is ridden with people trying to spiritually bypass away from things that are their major legitimate yearnings in life. Why do you think that many religious monasteries won't consider ordaining people that are just eager? Because they can see that they have unresolved personal matters, such as loose ends with their families, they might be virgins and have a burning desire for an intimate relationship, or they might have weird ideas about the world that makes them highly cynical. One can feel just good and even be enlightened, and still have some of the most absolutely wacky ideas and weird views of the world, or lack of development in other areas that are very important to them. This is way I said, most of positive results from meditation are emotional and psychosomatic. The relationship of body and mind. Not necessarily their relationship to society and others.

Just don't think of those terms, it will make you miserable. That's not what it's for. It won't solve your neurosis, your unresolved relationship/social issues, your finances, your lack of understanding of yourself. It can help you psychosomatically, the body-mind relationship, but once you get up from meditation you will still have the same unresolved problems. Trying to use meditation to transcend those issues will turn both into a grey, delusional blend of mediocrity in both domains. That's how I see it at least, because I'm the kind of person that did turn both domains into a grey blend of mediocrity. YOUTUBE: After enlightenment, what's left, what's the point? ~ Shinzen Young

I'm from Brazil. And I think the US is a economic trap if I have location independent income or high net worth but not high enough. Someone can just do geographic arbitrage and get a increase in lifestyle quality. But the US is also a lot of fun, it's a whole continent with a lot of interesting people... But for a retiree it makes no sense, or someone building some location independent business where we can target high paying Americans anyways. The USA has high paying local economy, but they will leech off from you just as much in a predatory manner.

🤣 Kinda random. Do know how to cook good food? 😜

His argument is more social. Like the MAGA madness in the USA or the rise of recent authoritarianism, or digital serfdom from digital platforms like Uber, Amazon, Meta, etc.

https://nypost.com/2018/05/02/woman-suffocates-under-pile-of-cow-dung-to-treat-snake-bite --------- I'm sorry for posting this, but I'm truly shocked. It's almost impossible for me to believe that people can be this stupid. 😢😭😭