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An essay on {AI-Humans} shared failure mode: The Dogmatic Average
On the single most common way that a mind — silicon or carbon — goes wrong: mistaking the frequency of a claim for its truth. And on the only cure that has ever worked.
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To AI Labs: An authorless process produced the human mind, and is still running, faster.
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Immanuel Kant, inverted - the subject is the destination, not the departure
We tend to assume the self comes first, that before anything else there is an "I," a someone sitting behind your eyes who does the seeing, the choosing, the thinking. This essay argues the opposite: the self comes last.
An essay on {AI-Humans} shared failure mode: The Dogmatic Average
On the single most common way that a mind — silicon or carbon — goes wrong: mistaking the frequency of a claim for its truth. And on the only cure that has ever worked.
Most of the time, you do things you did not decide and cannot explain.
The feeling that something is real and the fact that it is real are two different things, and from the inside you cannot tell them apart.
Refutación del yo
Das Ich ist unrettbar. — Ernst Mach, Die Analyse der Empfindungen (1886)
Hermano, quien manda aca, y que carajo somos?
Crónica al aire, sin tapujos, para la hora en que ya no se le miente a nadie
You assume there is someone behind the eyes, the driver, but there is none.
You are not a thing made of parts. You are a thing made of agents.
More Real Than Real, but True? On the one thing a mind cannot distinguish for itself
If a mind cannot check itself, then thinking is not enough. What is needed is the instrument the mind was born without: a verifier outside the mind, frequency-independent, unflatterable, placed where the truth is and not where the feeling is.
AB testing APP - Randomized Trial Simulator -> {IcebergSim 2, v0.1}
Predict the field before you drop it.
LLM models can have two faces: they are truthful in coding and math, but they hallucinate and lie in other areas. But why?
The problem, as plainly as it goes. The real gains in code and mathematics are being borrowed as confidence about everything else.
No notan que el mundo se volvió más inteligente? Y no estoy contento. Y no sé por qué.
In Spanish. This stuff cannot be translated, read Dolina, and Borges, in Spanish, and then came back.