You make the classical confusion between epistemology and ontology. Only because you can use something, it doesn't mean that that something exists. Only because you watch a movie with Spider-Man, it doesn't mean Spider-Man exists.
Also, I highly recommend you to perform for yourself such telepathy experiment. Thank you for reading my papers! On Saturday, 14 December 2024 at 22:57:55 UTC+2 Brent Meeker wrote: > I can successfully test my belief in matter. The fact that you did not > already know this casts strong doubt on your telepathic powers. > > "The second reason was that I already knew that I have telepathies when > I’m in relationships, thus I wanted to see what kind of telepathies appear > if I involve more than one girl." > From https://philpapers.org/archive/VISMAC-3.pdf > > I guess if I were to write such stupid drivel I wouldn't use my real name > either. > > Brent > > > > On 12/14/2024 1:21 AM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote: > > @Brent The only woo-woo is your belief in "matter". > > On Saturday, 14 December 2024 at 01:46:07 UTC+2 Brent Meeker wrote: > >> >> >> >> On 12/13/2024 1:18 AM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote: >> >> When you base an invention on the world of finite forms, of course that >> invention will be limited. You will never replicate the powers of >> consciousness, because consciousness draws its powers from the infinite >> world of the formless. And drawing from an infinite source, it is able to >> produce infinite forms and it doesn't need quazillions of forms to learn. >> >> Let's see you produce and infinite form or two. >> >> >> A baby learns to speak from just a few examples, because what the parents >> to is not to provide raw data to the baby, >> >> Twins often invent their own language which the speak to each other. >> Evolution has provided the raw data to create language. >> >> >> but to stimulate the baby's consciousness to access the formless source >> and to draw from there whatever forms it needs in order to be able to speak >> and generally learn anything. >> >> Woo-Woo magic. >> >> Brent >> >> >> On Friday, 13 December 2024 at 09:29:37 UTC+2 Alan Grayson wrote: >> >>> On Thursday, December 12, 2024 at 7:38:11 PM UTC-7 Brent Meeker wrote: >>> >>> Magic is always the explanation of those who can't understand. >>> >>> Brent >>> >>> >>> *There's plenty of magic, under a different name, in physics. Another >>> pitfall is religating hidden knowledge, aka occult knowledge, such as the >>> Chakras in Yoga, to de facto magic or someone's overactive imagination. AG * >>> >>> On 12/12/2024 1:39 PM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote: >>> >>> Magic! >>> >>> On Thursday, 12 December 2024 at 20:00:58 UTC+2 John Clark wrote: >>> >>> *The number of "tokens" (words or parts of words) used to train LLMs is >>> 100 times larger than it was in 2020, the largest are now using tens of >>> trillions. if you only consider text then the entire Internet only >>> contains about 3,100 trillion tokens. The amount of text LLMs train on is >>> doubling every year but the amount of human generated text on the Internet >>> is only growing at about 10% a year, if that trend continues AIs will run >>> out of text somewhere around 2028. Does that mean AI progress is about to >>> hit a wall? I don't think so for the following reasons:* >>> >>> *For one thing, because of improvements in algorithms, the computing >>> power needed for a Large Language Model to achieve the same performance >>> has halved about every 8 months. * >>> >>> *ALGORITHMIC PROGRESS IN LANGUAGE MODELS* >>> <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.05812> >>> >>> >>> *And computer chips specialized for AI rather than general computing, >>> like those made by Nvidia and other companies, are getting faster even more >>> rapidly than Moore's Law. Also, the rate of growth of specialized data >>> sets, such as astronomical and biological data, are growing much much more >>> quickly than text is; that's how AIs got so good at predicting how proteins >>> fold up. * >>> >>> *And there is vastly more information if AI's are trained on other types >>> of data besides text, and some AI's are already being trained on unlabeled >>> images and videos. Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, said that >>> "although the 10^13 tokens used to train a LLM sounds like a lot (it >>> would take a human 170,000 years to read that much) , a 4-year-old child >>> has absorbed a volume of data 50 times greater than that just by looking at >>> objects during his waking hours. We’re never going to get to human-level AI >>> by just training on language, that’s just not happening".* >>> >>> *And then there's synthetic data. AlphaGeometry was trained to solve >>> geometry problems using 100 million computer generated synthetic examples >>> with no human demonstrations, and it ended up being as good at solving >>> difficult geometry problems as the very best high school students in the >>> entire nation. * >>> >>> *Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations* >>> <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06747-5> >>> >>> *AI researchers are starting to change their strategy and have their >>> AI's reread their training set many times because AI's operate in a >>> statistical way so rereading improves performance * >>> >>> >>> *Scaling Data-Constrained Language Models* >>> <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.16264> >>> >>> >>> *Andy Zou at Carnegie Mellon University says "once an AI has got a >>> foundational knowledge base that’s probably greater than any single person >>> could have, it no longer needs more data to get smarter. It just needs to >>> sit and think. 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