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Friday, April 4, 2025

Lee Cronin On Why AI Doesn't Stand a Chance..

Excerpt:
What Burgson said...actually I like it a lot because Instinct going into cognition gives you intuition. Intuition is the thing that you can't yet put into language very well, you haven't got there, but you've got this thing right?

63 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ha-ha-ha-ha!

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

:)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Got transhumanism?

Anonymous said...

I wanna say it here. Even thought it will be prone to misunderstanding and/or misreading intention.

>>>> I. Actually. Appreciate your tryes to establish communication YOUR WAY. <<<<

It's just... I am not very experienced and not very capable, it seems, to pull it up from my side.

Like for example, with that Assembly Theory.

Even though I gave my short remark "BS". It actually doesn't mean that I disregard or trying to deminish other people valiant attempts to understand things.

It's just, it would demand such elaborate explanation (like this one) that I percieve as only diming and not shining light.

With hope that my "Yawn"s and "BS"s understood by you at least partially correct.

Again. With Assembly Theory as example.

Even if that theory viable. Or even precisely correct. It would need tons of heavy lifting. In engineering.

Like that Einstain's formula -- E = mc^2, simple isn't it? But it needed whole Manhattan Project to accomplish.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Did you run that through an LLM?

Evolution has saved the answers to 2 billion years of encountered problems in our DNA. Why would you believe that replicating the properties of life mechanically or with AI would be simple? Yes, the "end algorithm" seems simple enough "persist and replicate", but it took billions of failed "Manhattan projects" to accomplish... and only one has reached the language of an LLM level. It wasn't a goal. It wasn't a purpose. It "emerged" as a solution to a "specific" problem to a "particular" set of limitations. It was one (of possibly many) solutions.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

ps - the ability to store memories in stone/ architecture/ writing outside of ourselves has only existed for a few thousand years (since cave and rock art). It's going to take time. Media will evolve as technology evolves. So will Transhumanism.

zwaremetalen-239 said...

Lee Cronin is probably the best thing that's come out Little Britain in a while. He should not go back ;-)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

You chemists need to stick together. ;)

Anonymous said...

//Did you run that through an LLM?

What for?
To recieve Artifical Stupidity?)))

And. Yap.
You paraphrasing exactly my criticizm of Assembly Theory -- that that is engineering task, not theory building. ;-)

Anonymous said...

BS.

It need Conscious Efforts.
Will not happen by itself.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Success often defies conscious efforts. Only time can reveal the "fittest" answers.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

No, it's an argument for serendipity... and fortuitous combinations that build incrementally one upon the other.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

"Engineered" or pure "Chance".

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

The "desires" of both machines being complimentary, attract each other... and then live together to answer the challenges the the individual machines could not surpass individually.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Symbiosis (Mutualism, Commensalism, and Parasitism)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...or amensalism

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

or predation.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...elements of Fight, f*ck, or eat

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

A system of chemical bonds, or an animal "instinct", or an animal's learning from an environment.

Anonymous said...

//No, it's an argument for serendipity...

Is it?

//build incrementally one upon the other.

Looks like definition of engineering to me. ;-)



Anonymous said...

Again. I see no contradictions with what I was saying...

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Only you seek to impose an outsider's perceived solution on an insider's real problems.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...and you have no idea what those problems (plural) really are.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Nope. Science. Engineering is science through a rear-view mirror.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Epimetheus' brain, NOT Prometheus'.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

:P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Prophets... Seers... Pre-Cogs.

Anonymous said...

//Only you seek to impose an outsider's perceived solution on an insider's real problems.

Am I?

Anonymous said...

//Nope. Science. Engineering is science through a rear-view mirror.

More like left and right hand. IMHO

Anonymous said...

No comments on this?

You still ignoring or dislike my attempts to establish meta-communication. Why?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Yep... but Engineering is also "blind" to solutions not previously explored through Theoretical Science and Applied experimentation. Theoretical Physics-Applied Physics-Engineering. Epimetheus' 3 blind mice.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Does it take into account all the insider's desires? Or only yours?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

I think it's important to understand the route biology took before attempting to develop a non-biological mechanical equivalent going forward. If self-assembly is going to be required, this needs to be established at the foundational level. Eukaryotes with Archeae accompanied with a foundational algorithm

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

That, and knowledge of integrated Information theory (IIT) to build "collective" intelligences.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...because the competencies at each level of assembly need to be retained, and communications between levels established... like at Lumon (Severance)... Outtie level -> Innie Level -> Gemma Level (25 rooms)

Every room is concentrated upon another but different "problem" to be solves (and tested)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Every assembly a "desiring" machine, every desiring machine addressing the problem it needs ( & desires) to solve. Every desiring machine given the information and tools needed to solve the problem, and every desiring machine communicating its' desires (and frustration- aka distress) to symbiotic desiring machines that can understand and respond (or not) to that distress.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

So many rooms... so many problems to solve and coordinate.

Anonymous said...

What "it"?

Sorry for such questions, but I really bewildered.

Anonymous said...

Yeah.

And there is no crazy inventors with their crazy inventions.

Bu-ga-ga-h!

Thnx in advance)))

Anonymous said...

"Doing something again and again without succes is definition..."

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

"Your solution"... (substitute for "it" above)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...not ones with "funding", anyways... ;p

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

So instead of complaining about a need for smooth surfaces you should embrace a few striations... ;p Meden agan!

Capitalism:Schizophrenia

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Evolution will get there eventually! :P

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...even without the Seldon Plan.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Embrace quilting... not embroidery. It doesn't have to be as perfect.

Anonymous said...

Ehm???

What "my solution"???

Am I some politician???%)))

I just see a way to solve this or that problem.

That's all.

Anonymous said...

Yeah.

Throw some more salt... into my bleeding injury. %)

Anonymous said...

Seldon Plan -- made by Evolution.

Yawn.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

No, the turning of a 30,000 year Dark Age into a 1,000 year dark age. A form of "accelerationism".

The Seldon Plan was the plan engineered by Hari Seldon, Yugo Amaryl, Wanda Seldon, and many other members of the Seldon Project to shorten a projected thirty thousand years of chaos and war following the inevitable collapse of the Galactic Empire to a mere thousand years, leading to the establishment of a Second Empire

...as if technology isn't accelerating fast enough (Toffler, "Future Shock")

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...and what if the problem is non-teleological?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Focus on "What" and "How"
Non-teleological thinking focuses on the "what" and "how" of things, rather than the "why". It emphasizes observation, description, and understanding the immediate reality, rather than searching for ultimate causes or purposes.


Is yours a "purposeless" design, or one that wishes to impose a "purpose"?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

It's hard to sell a "purposeless" design effort, easy to sell one 'with" a purpose. The former is also much more dangerous, as you can't be sure that your "purposeless purpose" will be fulfilled in any expected fashion. Especially if they self-assemble and form larger IIT groupings (von Neuman machine)

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

You really need to go to MIT and explore your ideas.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Cuz "research" is saleable.

Anonymous said...

More then Evolition ALREADY imposed on us? ;-P

Anonymous said...

Yeah. Easier to say than done.

Anonymous said...

Hoe long ago you have had to buy new computer, because your current +- not fast enoigh???

Anonymous said...

Technological progress practically stopped already, dude.

We ARE in a Dark Age.

Current wars show it with impunity -- they fought with 40-50 years old weapon

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

lol! We need faster and faster computers because the code gets ever sloppier and less efficient.

Blame the slow development on copyright and patent law. Only in "war" do those restrictions go out the window and innovators go full Shanzhai!

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Make a friend at MIT... and collaborate.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

You mean doing what Gershenfeld says, building the software into the hardware materials and not separately?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...firmware without the "burner", with embedded code naturally forming when the PROM is fabricated