Carl-Richard

Give me your best explanation. Best explanation gets a cookie (laced with meth).

That's how I felt throughout my entire psychology degree (undergrad and graduate). Structure vs Content in particular I got from this paper:

Please watch, the madness starts at 3:00 (current timestamp is for lead-up) and ends at 4:39 (not really but that's the moment). I started howling "noooooooooooo" when I realized it.

1. You said Leo was a pioneer in these kinds of things, which is wrong. 2. It's not as much speculation as a feeling and simply asserting something to be the case. It's not much logical thinking or explanation involved as far as you've shared. Tell me why you think he pioneered these kinds of topics and why you think he influenced Alex.

"Don't follow your passion" is the stupidest idea that has ever been uttered. Complete fallacious marketing clickbait "the truth is more complicated".

The way to talk about an external world is to be clear that you're conceding to the assumptions of conceptualization, of space and time, and inferences based on observation ("because x thing was observed consistently, repeatedly, in space and over time, it would be reasonable to describe that as existing independently in an external place we call the external world"). If you want to concede no such things, you cannot talk about any such things, but you can also not claim things like "other people's experience do not exist" because you're then conceding to those very assumptions also. So the solipsists, if they are claiming that above and they are simultaneously claiming that it's absolute knowledge, are just as much "in the wrong" here. If they are claming it cannot be spoken of, they are in the right (in it being absolute knowledge). Then and only then is it truly absolute knowledge. Anything else is a corruption (relative knowledge).

I'll get back to you on that. The thing is you know there are products that people buy by the virtue that you are yourself buying some of those products. And you can sell them if you would buy your own product. Then the only question is about getting the product to the market, which in the age of social media ads (depending on your marketing skills) is basically only a question of some minor starting funds (and that I do actually have real experience with which is what drove me partially to do things in this direction). And if the product is easily scalable, that's a feedback loop that can grow very quickly.

The thing I'm onto is that language is like 0,00001% (actually 0.0000034%, not so far off) of our evolutionary history of life on Earth, and that before that, we were experiencing the world through senses, perception, feelings, sounds, sights, colors, smells. And then in 67 years, we created something that quacks like a human, but then we forget we only started quacking like humans ourselves not that long ago and that it's not such a big deal.

Yeah he only needs to shave his head 👀

You could make it outgoing, it depends entirely on your business idea. Gotta think outside the box for this one.

I just want people who think LLMs could be conscious (not talking about you Leo) to think about what an LLM really is. It predicts statistical relationships between words. Ok, so let's remove the words. What do you have? Something that predicts statistical relationships between things. So if you were to look at raindrops falling in a certain area, you could have an "LLM" that predicts where would you most likely see the next raindrop. Now, looking at this thing in action, how alive would it seem to you? How likely are you to project the idea that it is conscious onto it? When you remove the mystery of language that drapes people's experience of LLMs, it becomes clear how different from "life" and also probably "experience" these things really are. That said, will I claim I "know" whether LLMs are conscious or not? No, and I think it's just a scary thing to decisively make such a judgement, about the possible sentience of another. But if you were to ask what I would guess, what is the most reasonable thing to think is most likely the case, then LLMs do not seem very good candidates for consciousness.

Vibe code something you would like to see on the internet or as an app and that is monetizable (e.g. through a service or product, membership, etc.), use Canva and Meta ads for marketing. Ask AI how to vibe code (it's really straightforward now after AIs can edit your files live on the computer; for ChatGPT this is called Codex and you must download the app for it to work like that). So a monthly 20$ ChatGPT or equivalent AI company membership and some time and you'll already have big potential. "But everybody is vibe coding". Firstly, no, basically only coders and perhaps some few other nerds started vibe coding when it became a thing. Secondly, finding a product people will buy is not hard, and it's about executing it to a reasonable extent that is marketable, and you have to be able to market it (which depends on your marketing skills and general intelligence if you're doing it by yourself). And then you only need a bit of capital to get the ball rolling (Meta ads require a little bit of money for results) and suddenly you'll have 20-50-100 subscribers and income which you can siphon into more subscribers again. And when I say "vibe code", I don't mean sending one prompt to ChatGPT and asking it to build an entire website in one go and that's your entire work done for you. I'm talking about meticulously building a good product with repeated refining of your product over time using vibe coding and just your general creative impulse. People who think vibe coding is a gimmick are the same people who thought Excel spreadsheets or just computers in general were a gimmick. If you use it to magnify proper work, proper effort and aim, that's what decides the output. Everybody can write one prompt, but not everybody wants to write thousands of prompts and polish recursively what comes out.

I think the need for coherence is a basic human need. It goes under "mental" needs. I created a map for this. What you call needs, how to meet them, and how to understand them in a larger systematic perspective, is what terms like "meaning", "holism", etc., is about. Thinking about these things can help you a long way in getting your needs met. Because you have a need for thinking about things, and it's part in knowing how to navigate and get those needs met.

I do actually find it a bit offensive and controversial. Watching Leo's career I think he is influenced by thousands of years of religious traditions.

Leo must be influenced by thousands of years of religious traditions saying exactly the same thing. "But he says it differently". Bullshit.

How do you meet those needs?

So you agree that philosophizing is consistent with ensuring your well-being, and you're doing it yourself, so why do you say you shouldn't do it? Are you talking about a specific form of philosophizing? Sounds like you're getting fixated on something very specific (basic needs) because you were without them for a while. But you'll see that if you have these very things, you can still have issues. Take the recent case of RJ Mitte as an example, or other similar cases of successful people who seemed to get their basic needs met but still felt like ending themselves. I would say in the majority of these cases, the issues had to do with meaning (and if you want to be more or less general, it always has to do with that). Basic needs are basic. When they're covered, your focus moves over to something else.

And being logically correct, insightful, meaningful in how you interact with the world? If not, why would you care about writing in a coherent and understandable way, why would you care about coming to the conclusion that indeed it's all just about pain and avoidance of suffering? Why would you care that I disagree? You call other people's philosophizing pointless, but what about your own? Doesn't it strike you as meaningful?

It matters for those couple of minutes of the day where you become hungry and you eat your food, and then it doesn't matter any longer. That's how meaning works: if you continue eating after you're full, that's meaningless. Meaning deals with what is fitting and appropriate for each moment, and that changes moment to moment. You don't socialize 24/7; you also have to sleep. And you don't sleep 24/7 either, you also have to get up and take a shit and do stuff. Then you eat food sometimes, then you do more stuff. What stuff you do tends to matter a bit more than the basics that you have to do, unless you fail miserably at the basics and you don't get to do them satisfactorily. Except for that case, you only have so much time to eat and shit and lay in bed. That's also why people philosophize because 1. they try to figure out what is the best thing to do, and 2. they have the time to do that. And 3. it's even meaningful to do that, or it is experienced as meaningful to do that. Even you writing a rant about how pain and taking a shit and eating foods is the most meaningful thing there is, is you philosophizing and spending your time not thinking about pain or eating or sleeping. Because that is what you experience as meaningful in this particular moment.

@blankisomeone "Pain" is a brute word. It's about meaning. Philosophizing can create a sense of meaning because it can create coherence in your experience (and it can do the opposite as well, but that's arguably one of the most core implicit aims). And you can do what is "painful" in the short term because it is beneficial in the long term, which is to bring purpose to your life. You can avoid eating and even shitting because you're so engrossed by something meaningful. Happens to all kinds of people all the time.

Zinc is involved in so many dopamine functions (synthesis, direct receptor action). A high dose of zinc (e.g. 30 mg of zinc picolinate/bisglycinate) can actually somewhat mimic ADHD medication (but be careful with getting enough copper if dosing high). Calcium is directly involved in neuronal signalling. Too low and your brain is literally not firing. B-vitamins for energy production, D-vitamins (dopamine and serotonin), co-factors like magnesium. All of these are essential nutrients that you should try to get from your diet, but if you have nutritional holes, you should try to fill them.

That's something you're exceptionally good at and it's one of the most underrated things that people should learn from you: to write in a clear and straightforward way.

No.

That whispering narration is so icky. 3:56 Fake news. Harvard estimated scaling will break. The hype is too coked up.

Anything that can be said of you as a person that is somewhat stable over time is a trait.