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Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

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Re: Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

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Post by tempodox »

kubb wrote: post #15

Wowzers, it’s happening imminently. Great to know that we can expect agents that learn from experience very very soon! When they’re here I’ll make an upvote farming bot that learns from experience how not to get caught and unleash it on HM. After that I’ll make an agent that runs a SaaS company that learns from experience how to make money and I’ll finally be able to chill out and play video games. That last thing I’…

> very very soon!

If they're not careful, they'll be sued for copyright violation of the Real Soon Now™ brand.

Re: Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

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Post by daseiner1 »

apwell23 wrote: post #24
jgbmlg wrote: post #4

It's ironic that machine intelligence is advancing during an era when human intelligence is declining.

> era when human intelligence is declining is it ? i am listening to most beautiful music that was ever created. it was created in 2024.

would citing lebron james explain away the obesity epidemic?

Re: Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

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Post by tempodox »

quantumHazer wrote: post #18

Is it me or this is yet another PR stunt masked as a serious article with LaTeX and all the fancy things? The graph doesn’t even make sense. I’m burning out from all this hypester type of thing, it’s really really tiring.

> I’m burning out

The constant barrage of excrement makes critical thinking ever harder, which is by design (it has been proven that pumping out BS en masse is way easier than debunking it). Stop using your brain already and just buy what they tell you. Thinking is done by machines now. As is pumping out BS about how good machines are at thinking.

Re: Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

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Post by bethekidyouwant »

daseiner1 wrote: post #32
apwell23 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> era when human intelligence is declining is it ? i am listening to most beautiful music that was ever created. it was created in 2024.

would citing lebron james explain away the obesity epidemic?

Yes, the strongest man who ever lived is alive today. The best player of every sport is alive today . It absolutely supports the theory support the theory that the smartest person ever is alive today, etc. etc..

Re: Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

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Post by KineticLensman »

codeflo wrote: post #23
chneu wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not. Everytime there's a new form of media or communication there's an uptick in "bad actors". Think yellow journalism or any of the moral panics around TV programming. Even back when the printing press was invented there was an uptick in troll behavior. One of the Green brothers posited that martin Luther was really just a pamphlet troll. With social media and the Internet, stupid just got louder. I don't think…

Amplifying stupid can be very deadly, though. In some sense, the printing press caused the 30-year war, and radio brought us World War II. Eventually, society will adapt. I just wish we could find a way to adapt faster than the bad actors do.

> In some sense, the printing press caused the 30-year war,

Well the 30-year war definitely showed technology-driven speed-up. Before the printing press we had wars that lasted for 100 years [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War

Re: Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

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Post by Jensson »

quantumHazer wrote: post #18

Is it me or this is yet another PR stunt masked as a serious article with LaTeX and all the fancy things? The graph doesn’t even make sense. I’m burning out from all this hypester type of thing, it’s really really tiring.

Maybe it was generated by an LLM?

Re: Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf]

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Post by trollbridge »

_Algernon_ wrote: post #21
sdsd wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes and no. In swaths of the world, we're actually observing a reverse Flynn effect and IQ has been dropping, in some places for decades. Eg: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a43469569/american-...

This started long before the internet.

Started in 2006 in Denmark and seemed to start a few years ago in the U.S… coinciding with smartphones (which I think will make us even dumber).
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