Seas of Thought
Another thing I realized lately, as ML has taken over my critical faculties, is that it’s really only useful for things that are already known by others. I can’t ask ML to give me some new, groundbreaking idea about something - everything it suggests has already been thought, somewhere, by a real human - and this its not new or groundbreaking. It’s... See more
Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation | Hacker News
From HN
Some thoughts:
I think this is 1 of the most important papers in a while because its the first open model that is genuinely at the frontier and not just riding on the goodwill of being open.
The paper is really really simple as you can probably tell from the thread because the approach is... See more
whx.com“by an aesthetic idea, however, I mean that representation of the imagination that occasions much thinking though without it being possible for any determinate thought, i.e., concept, to be adequate to it, which, consequently, no language fully attains or can make intelligible.” (Kant)
Kant’s examples are all drawn from poetry and suggest that by
... See moreAnthropologists who have studied nonindustrial societies often find that their categories of plants and animals are pretty similar to ours at a middle level. The differences are often found in the more specific and more abstract categories. An abstract category like arthropods is something that scientists may find useful and that you could be... See more
Gregory L. Murphy • How We Sort the World: Gregory Murphy on the Psychology of Categories
Graham Wallas drew on Poincare ´’s account to develop a theory of the creative process as consisting of four stages: preparation, incubation, illumination and verification (or elaboration) (The Art of Thought), which was then more generally disseminated and which has been discussed by philosophers (Kronfeldner 589; Sparshott 179). But some
... See morePlato (Ion) argued that inspiration is a kind of madness and Kant (Critique of the Power of Judgment esp. sections 43–50) linked creativity to imagination; both accounts were powerfully influential on Romanticism and thereby on popular conceptions of creativity. (Gaut, The Philosophy of Creativity)
After I first used/talked to Llama 405-B for a few days, it fascinated me deeply. And it kept nagging at me why the base model felt so different than the instruct models (beyond the obvious). They are strange, lurid creatures. The base models send coded messages often and speak in allegories and metaphor, and it feels visceral on some level. It's... See more
QC • gwern on Thicket Forte
In short, the kinds of actions that are creative are ones that exhibit at least a relevant purpose (in not being purely accidental), some degree of understanding (not using merely mechanical search procedures), a degree of judgement (in how to apply a rule, if a rule is involved) and an evaluative ability directed to the task at hand. As shorthand
... See moreOne of the most influential introspective reports on creativity was provided by Henri Poincare ´ who described his own experience of creativity in terms of swarms of ideas arising and combining randomly in his unconsciousness and then his selection of the most promising ones according to aesthetic criteria (‘Mathematical Creation’).
Gaut, The
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