It may be the problem, but it's also become the standard. If you want Microsoft, you know where to go. If you want Apple, you know where to go. If you want Linux or open standards, there's hundreds of companies that will help you, but which are good? Which are bad? Nobody knows.
We tend to think about life and death as metaphysical states, but life is really just a process. And death the absence of that process.
Or actually, life is a bunch of different processes. It's possible for some to stop while others continue. Some, if stopped, can be restarted again, others can't. It all depends on whether the systems supporting those processes survive is a useable state. Often they deteriorate without the metabolical processes, but some systems are stable enough to survive a long time without the processes that maintain them so the processes can be restarted.
So are you dead when the processes stop, or when the system has deteriorated to the point they can't be restarted?
I like your take. Agree that we should label something as 'alive' when there are active biological processes happening; and 'dead' in the absence of any. Also, just get rid of the idea that you're not allowed to move between the 2 extremes; or even that you can't be on some spectrum between these 2 states; (e.g. zombies)
Absolutely. From what I understand, there's been an evolutionary war for resources between the womb and the placenta, which is a big part of why human pregnancies are so complicated and invasive compared to other mammals (because no other mammal has this anywhere near as extreme as we do).
I believe it all comes down to our giant noggin/brain. It's a giant resource tar pit, it's why we're born effectively premature, it's why we take forever to be in any shape of form self sufficient and it's why we would drain the mother of all resources available if she wouldn't regulate that desire to fuel our brain to the max.
Turns out, being the most intelligent apex comes with some gestational specialities.
Yes, walled gardens are bad, but in this case it was the combination of walled garden, region restrictions for vital health info, conflicting region restrictions, health info not being available outside the app, and a healthcare system that itself is completely broken. Each of these is stupid and dangerous, and if even one of them hadn't been the case, the author wouldn't have had this problem.
I've had the exact same thing with an OSM map. Organic Maps showed a trail down, but if it was meant to be a trail, it hadn't been used or maintained in at least a century. It was completely irresponsible to go down it, but we did so anyway because otherwise we'd have to backtrack our entire hike. We got home, but it was quite an adventure.
In Dutch those have all their own somewhat cryptic names: Goede Vrijdag (Good Friday), Witte Donderdag (White Thurday), Stille Zaterdag (Silent Saturday).
> more and more emails are just links to some website with the information on it (often with a login required as well)
And a 2FA SMS sent to your phone.
> If you email me a text or PDF invoice, I can always come back to it for my own reference. If you send me a link to one, there's no guarantee I can still access it later.
Download it. It sucks having to do that and maintaining your own archive instead of trusting your mailbox, but I guess there's some advantages to that as well.
Sure, I can download it if they send it as an attachment. Not so easy when it's an external reference. I guess I could login to the website and download... the web page? Well anyway I'm not going to.
> The surprising thing here is that people think that LLMs are "powerful at solving math tasks".
That's not really surprising either. We have evolved to recognize ourselves in our environment. We recognize faces and emotions in power outlets and lawn chairs. Recognizing intelligence in the outputs of LLMs is less surprising than that. But the fact that we recognize intelligence in LLMs implies intelligence in them just about as much as your power outlet is happy or sad because it looks that way to you.
Since the rise of LLMs, the thought has definitely occurred to me that perhaps our intelligence might also arise from language processing. It might be.
The big difference between us and LLMs, however, is that we grow up in the real world, where some things really are true, and others really are false, and where truths are really useful to convey information, and falsehoods usually aren't (except truths reported to others may be inconvenient and unwelcome, so we learn to recognize that and learn to lie). LLMs, however, know only text. Immense amounts of text, without any way to test or experience whether it's actually true or false, without any access to a real world to relate it to.
It's entirely possible that the only way to produce really human-level intelligent AI with a concept of truth, is to train them while having them grow up in the real world in a robot body over a period of 20 years. And that would really restrict the scalability of AI.
I just realized that kids (and adults) these days grow up more in virtual environments behind screens than in touch with the real world, and maybe that might have an impact on our ability to discern truth from lies. That would certainly explain a lot about the state of our world.
A few years back i saw a documentary about kids in a third world country were it is normal to use plastic bags for drinking soda.
These kids couldn't understand that the plastic garbage in their own nature is not part of nature.
Nonetheless, depending on what rules you mean, there are a lot of people who show that logic or 'truth' is not the same for everyone.
People believing in a god, ghosts, conspiricy theories, flat earth etc.
I'm more curious if the 'self' can only be trained if you have a clear line of control. We learn what the self is because there is a part which we can control and than there is a part which we can't control.
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