Undergraduate research in biologically-plausible simple reinforcement learning neural networks in classical conditioning and spatial learning; currently Principal Engineer at the Internet Archive.
Aaron Ximm
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Undergraduate research in biologically-plausible simple reinforcement learning neural networks in classical conditioning and spatial learning; currently Principal Engineer at the Internet Archive.
How might the individual ever measure against the collective? The Earring is merely the distilled wisdom of the crowd present and past, yes?
What peril there is with Claude et al. is not I think distinct in kind (only in degree) from that of participation in contemporary social media, or for that matter, academia, or, really, contemporary terminally online society.
When the speed of information, and its flow rate, overwhelm the calibrated expectations of our animal embodiment, and the mechanisms of our evolved society, how could we but be overwhelmed. We feel unable to compete effectively because we are effectively, literally, unabl to compete. Because we compete not with peers (for ideas, or, insights, or, karma), but with “the world”, with “the internet”, with “all human knowledge”—with a sampled subset of the full distribution which contains examples far above our FIDE ranking (or so on). LLMs attach a voice box to that.
There is some sort of inverted perverted lemma here of the anthropic principle, where nothing is so humbling as to now find oneself continually measured against the distribution. No good idea has not already been articulated (so confirms google). No clever band name or domain name has not been squatted. And so on.
We may find some refuge—for a while—in the cave of our animal nature. For a while!