Michał Wyrębkowski
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Michał Wyrębkowski
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Yann LeCun’s cake on the RL, Supervised & Self-Supervised Learning
Although we now have models that can generate remarkably realistic video based on user requests, if we want models that solve complex problems, perform intricate reasoning, and make subtle inferences, language models are still the main and only option. We can’t ask Veo 3 to estimate whether the island of Hawaii contains more cubic meters of rock th... See more
Language Models in Plato's Cave
They’re also existential. What’s collapsing isn’t just a career path. It’s the inner voice that told you: “If I know enough, I’ll be okay.”
Death of a knowledge system
Think about it: everything in this culture rewards the performance of certainty. It’s how we manage fear. How we avoid vulnerability. How we earn social value. So what happens when a billion people addicted to propositional knowledge get cut off from their stash?
Death of a knowledge system
in times of social upheaval, people often find themselves desiring something that is actually an obstacle to their flourishing. She calls it a form of “cruel optimism.” In her 2011 book of the same name, she explains how politics can often take the form of cruel optimism. In times of great change, political desires happen at the affective, pre-refl... See more
The New Vertigo Years
cruel optimism - hastening the inevitable; e.g. PiS
Dynamism of a Car (1913) by futurist Luigi Russolo. Futurists often focused on modern machinery like trains and automobiles in their paintings to demonstrate speed.
The Anxious Journey (1913) by Giorgio de Chirico. Locomotives were commonly evoked by many artists as metaphor for modernity and its relentless pace forward.
The Fanciful Planes (Les Avions Fantaisistes, 1911) by André Devambez
My Eyes in the Time of Apparition (1913) by outsider artist August Natterer