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Cyber Animism by Joscha Bach
youtube.comGrothendieck knew what he found interesting and productively confusing because he had spent three years observing his thought and tracing where it wanted to go. He was not at the mercy of the social world he entered; rather, he “used” it to “further his aims.” (I put things in quotation marks here because what he’s doing isn’t exactly this delibera... See more
Cultivating a State of Mind Where New Ideas Are Born
With all the challenges in ethics and computation, and the knowledge needed from fields like linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience, and not just mathematics and computer science, it will take a village to raise to an AI.
Gary Marcus • Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall
The educational psychologist Kirsti Lonka compared the reading approach of unusually successful doctoral candidates and students with those who were much less successful. One difference stood out as critical: The ability to think beyond the given frames of a text (Lonka 2003, 155f).
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
I don't think that the scaling hypothesis gets recognized enough for how radical it is. For decades, AI sought some kind of master algorithm of intelligence. The scaling hypothesis says that there is none: intelligence is the ability to use more compute on more data.
Joscha Bach • Tweet
OpenBrain scientist at “research taste” (deciding what to study next, what experiments to run, or having inklings of potential new paradigms).45