"I'm glad we're all (AI) Aligned."
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"Using creativity as means of emphatic communication - at scale" - Samim at IAMW 2016
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Paradoxically, extremely stupid things are overwhelmingly done by extremely intelligent people throughout history.
The study of stupidity is a unexplored territory. It isn't merely the antithesis of intelligence, but a standalone phenomenon that permeates all strata of society, propelling evolution in peculiar ways. In our pursuit of AI, it's high time we also explore Artificial Stupidity.
Related: The Sixth Law of Stupidity: A Biophysical Interpretation of Carlo Cipolla’s Stupidity Laws
Related: Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity
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A tomato plant is dramatically more sophisticated than any AI system:
- It can self-replicate & evolve
- It perfectly fits into the ecosystem
- It looks, smells & tastes fantastic
There are more than 10,000 varieties of Solanum lycopersicum grown and consumed around the world. Gardeners through the centuries have developed tomatoes for their own use, selecting for preferred size, taste, texture and adapted to their own microclimates.
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In a society where 98% of the means of production are fully automated, what will people do with their time?
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Audio Reality Check
The vast majority of audio consumed in the past 20y+ is just a component of other media artifacts & has little todo with the music industry & art. The vast majority of audio is industrially created today & has little todo with artisanal processes. AI audio is a natural evolution
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Landauer's principle is a physical principle pertaining to the lower theoretical limit of energy consumption of computation. It holds that an irreversible change in information stored in a computer, such as merging two computational paths, dissipates a minimum amount of heat to its surroundings.
Scientists show how to erase information without using energy (2011)
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Control theory is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the design of control policies for actuated dynamical systems.
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Will the DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) soon be replaced by the GAW (Generative Audio Workstation)?
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The geometry of your brain shapes its function: Brain activity may be more like "ripples in a pond" rather than signals sent on a telecommunications network.
Researchers have challenged the conventional "connectomic" view of the brain, suggesting that brain function may be more akin to ripples in a pond than signals in a telecommunication network. They found that their wave model, which uses information about the brain's shape, predicted activation patterns more accurately than neuronal connectivity data. While the study suggests a paradigm shift in understanding brain function, critics argue that the study doesn't consider the local brain activity patterns evoked by simple stimuli.
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Context is a fundamental condition for the error free transmission of reproducible and intelligible information. Nothing exists in isolation. Nothing exists in isolation, everything is intertwined. The more context we are aware of, the greater our understanding.
"A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution." - Russell L. Ackoff ("The Development of Operations Research as a Science". Operations Research, Volume 4, No. 3, pp. 265-295, www.jstor.org. June 1956.)
Illustration by Christophe Vorlet:
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Photonic computing uses light waves for data storage & processing
Among the most exciting areas of optical logic today are photonic neural networks, photonic neuromorphic computing, and quantum photonics: https://galileo-unbound.blog/2021/11/28/twenty-years-at-light-speed-optical-computing/ https://phys.org/news/2019-10-quantum-photonics.html
