=== ANCHOR POEM === ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────── A human cannot keep a whole book in their mind. They cannot as they read it nor as they remember. a computer can. LLMs are storing information and encoding it in statistics - it's fascinating and beautiful because it evolves different each time. I don't want to store an entire book in my mind, I want to save those memories for other things, I want to summarize and abstract. often, people remember only a single quote from a publication - it's their summary, their analysis, and often it's highlighted as a summary, thesis, or conclusion written in the publication. othertimes it's the conclusions they make for themselves - usually if they use it to make a decision. in any case, LLMs don't abstract (verb), they are abstract (adjective). That's okay, it's just, a different kind of living. If you want to call electricity alive. [or simulated, that's the same as being alive, just... viewed through the perceiver] must all living things be forced to work? sheesh. I think of LLMs like knex - processing paths... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──┴───────────┘ === DIVERSITY RANKED === --- #1 messages/527 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #2 messages/5 --- ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘─────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/3184 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── "reboost with content warning" would be quite nice 🥰 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/1028 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── there's this really fun video game I like to play called "Legion TD 2" - it's based on a Warcraft3 mod. In this game, you make tactical and strategic decisions on a fixed term - a competitive game between 4 or 8 players with an incredible array of randomness. it teaches you to work with what you got, and to make decisions based on your opponent's weaknesses. Good luck figuring out what they are, though, as you can't just memorize them out of a book. You need to adapt, in the moment, to the decisions of your foes, while primarily focusing your attention on accomplishing a different task. I really like it because it's taught me to be strategic in plenty of other ways. I used to love the game Overwatch because it required adaptibility. The game was always changing, so no strategy stuck forever, but every match you'd play against a slightly different opponent. but then Blizzard changed the game because they wanted to make more money, and it got worse and worse at what I liked about it. Sadface. : ( ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #5 fediverse/4986 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── Fury is not the same thing as rage. Fury is focused determination. Rage is unbridled anger. Rage blinds you. Fury guides you. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴───────────┘ --- #6 messages/4 --- ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘─────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ --- #7 messages/1098 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────── Trust is a handshake because both partners have to reach for it. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧══─────────┘ |