interesting how this ai revolution plays out in reverse. manual labor should have been replaced and creative jobs stayed. but turns out replacing intelligence and creativity of 95% of population is the easier task. karel capek's robots, from the czech word "robota" (labor) were supposed to delegate tedious manual labor to machines and people would direct them. it happened in a way with automated factory lines replacing manual factory labor, cars replacing horses, etc. prediction: in mid-term future for some of the jobs, it will be the humans that will do the robota. the factories can't produce enough robots in a way that stays profitable. and these robots will be directed by ai, possibly in ear-piece. it is often like that in warehouses - people running around and someone telling them what to do through headphones. that someone will be replaced by ai. the machines will be directing humans doing manual labor. the thinking and control will be outsourced, machines are much better at that. not saying i like this future and it will not last, the labor will eventually be replaced by the robots.

after the ai model to understand dolphins (dolphingemma) this is the coolest thing out there. what's so powerful about these ai models is that we can use them to understand signals we can't make sense of ourselves. llms work like that with language. they would work exactly the same for an alien language, extracting meaning just from the sample of use. i've been playing with eegs a lot. i think people don't appreciate how powerful they are. it's what telescope was for understanding the universe. installing and putting on my headset. let's gooo! https://www.zyphra.com/post/zuna https://huggingface.co/Zyphra/ZUNA

the limit of intelligence of central planners is they don't know what they don't know. and what they can't know. they believe in their abilities, they had been successful in some area in the past. winning elections or taking over the government in some form at least. some were successful entrepreneurs, some are just hustlers with state symbols fetish and thirst for power. but they don't understand the principle of computational irreducibility. some things are unpredictable in principle. they can't wing it, no matter how intelligent or experienced they are. we would never try to be the head of central planning committee, because we know it's impossible to do it well in principle. that's why we build outside, in parallel.

exactly. one way to experience this is through neurofeedback. everyone's way is different, but it works pretty well for many. View quoted note →

what i find pretty amusing - when people identified something as ai slop, the distinctive feature was that the writing was good. too good. and then the people who were writing well were "outed" as ais, even though they were not. it was more about form, but the interesting thing is that the content that ai generates is usually much better than what we humans produce. doesn't make it less annoying, something that used to be rare is now obviously generated. feels like there was no human time invested in writing it. no attention, just cheap tokens. we want the human slop. feels authentic. strange, ain't it?

every surveillance system ever built was justified by safety and used for control. every single one. this is not a pattern that needs more data points.