Big takeaway from the GPT paradigm is that the world of text is a far more complete description of the human experience than almost anyone anticipated.

Jan 6, 2023 路 6:29 PM UTC

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language and cognition are two sides of the same coin, after all
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unfortunately, no
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People have always known quality stories are better and richer than movies
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I think you will change your mind about this in due time.
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Or that video is so complicated that no one has solved video (time series) inference yet.
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And much of it has been erased or lost from the Internet on the waybackmachine.com aka archive.org and on websites that closed down over the years like dailypaul.com for example. It's good to keep copies of information for the AI to access one day.
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The text posted proves your point
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more an easily replicated human experience than a "description" of it. A description of the human experience in its truest form would have many senses involved and be unique to each person. An understanding that's received in an instant, if you will
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in the beginning was the word....
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I actually had a discussion about that with GPT! I asked it how a being could understand the world without any grasp of language. TLDR: language is the best tool to engage w/ reality and text the most efficient way to stdardize it but not necessity for sentience or understanding