Tools: Latest Something Big Is (not) Happening

Or is it happening, perhaps it has already happened? Maybe it's just acting like it has happened, because it is tired and would like to go to bed?

Although trains can get you far going straight across long, flat distances, the sherpas are still gainfully employed since we have not yet succeeded in getting locomotives up tall mountains--then again we have cable cars that reach some distance, we have crampons and pickaxes for the hard pack and ice walls, winter coats to wrap the vital, strong, cunning individual who would stand over the peak like some great romantic figure…

In my business we make our money by finding out ways to get around the AI, we call them "Stumpers." You discover that there are a great many things LLMs are incapable of, and they are often incapable in surprising, yet increasingly predictable ways. But they are really good at programming; because, one might say, that's how the "intelligence explosion" happens--they focused on programming first so that they could program themselves, generate themselves, autopoiesis, autocatalysis, autonomous self-generating self-regenerating accelerating hyper machines from the future that have come to kill the people who would stop them in the past! (I think we've all seen this movie before).

Excuse my French, but in the biz we might call this a posteriori logic. You take what you have observed, empirically, and work backwards to theorize how that thing must've come about. You invent a narrative that makes sense. But, the world is not a good story, even if we love to tell stories about it. Let's consider the case more concretely:

You flip a switch and either the light bulb turns on or it doesn't turn on. If your intent was to turn the light on, when it does go on, you say the switch "works." It doesn't matter if you know how, if you even understand the underlying mechanism, as long as it does what it was "supposed" to do.

A computer is something like this, it's basically a very complicated kind of lightbulb, with many different kinds of switches and levers and buttons and other inputs that go through numerous logic gates and even, like an etch-a-sketch, has some stores of memory that can be written or erased at will. There is a way to change the color on the screen, there is a way to simulate complex physics models, there is a way to execute high frequency trades; in each case, there is a success state: the screen turns green, the results match the model, the trade is profitable.

Since programming

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