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soupspaces

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About soupspaces

Humans are to bats as language is to echolocation. LLMs are averaged echoes.

Generative AI's greatest advantage is visualization. It closes the implementation gap by turning abstractions into explorable explanations.

Generation is the default benchmark because it is easy to measure... And is "productive" (if that has meaning) but is inefficient.

Understanding is much harder. The challenge today is to build systems that make ideas more coherent, inspectable, and transferable.

Using Star Trek as a template, ask if will we build more Vulcan-like technology, using intelligence to expand knowledge and insight, or scale Borg-like accumulation and assimilation.

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    Chatgpt instant gives inaccurate results. Shocker.

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    Earlier discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15373068 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36039366

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    https://philosophynow.org/issues/132/About_Aboutness

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    why is it flagged?

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    https://mdrbx.github.io/nerv-ui/examples/surveillance/

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    Cognitive geocentrism. How does a physical system transition into intelligence?

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    script for finding HN GH links ranked https://gist.github.com/hundredwatt/183191d02f1fe0db31c3e910...

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    Yes the visualization is great but overused and could also use a stop button. I would have also liked to see different kinds of plots.

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    And worse it's usually next to the search button or might even activate itself as "helpful" assistants

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    Every day, the gap between the news and The Onion gets a little smaller.

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    This should be in front page

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    Not just android

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    The ease of implementation provided by AI tools makes this "work repetition" more likely. Humans are awful at coordination.