What makes you lie about the existence of telepathy ? Does it make you happy ? Does it replace the lack of vvahmen in your life ?
On Monday, 16 December 2024 at 21:45:15 UTC+2 Brent Meeker wrote: > So you use non-existent telepathy. Well I guess that's easiest kind to > obtain. > > I'm quite clear on the meaning of epistemology and ontology. Having > knowledge of Cosmin Visan does mean he exists. > > Brent > > > > On 12/15/2024 2:37 AM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote: > > 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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