Replying to Callum

I reject completely the concepts of 'artificial intelligence' and 'emergence'. So I'm not particularly interested in distinctions between weak or strong 'emergence' or the distinction one sometimes sees between 'AI' and 'AGI'. For me it is all magical thinking.

That's not to say I don't credit that machine learning is possible, it obviously is and is a very powerful technology that will have a tremendous and society changing impact. And LLMs are also powerful tools, along with other machine analysis & generation tools.

IOW, I think the language here is important (eg Machine Learning vs 'AI') as it helps to avoid succumbing to what I call 'Science Fiction brain'.
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Callum 8mo ago

p.s. 'Artificial intelligence' and 'emergence' are fine when they apoear as tropes in science fiction, where they serve the same role as magic has for centuries in folk and fairy tales. The mistake with 'Science Fiction brain' is in thinking these fictional constructs are possibilities in 'the Future', perhaps how ppl also mistook that magic-making was possible from fairy tales.

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Gregor 8mo ago

Hah

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Callum 8mo ago

Is this from a client that summarises replies? Looks useful.

Btw, for some reason I haven't been getting notifications on yr replies recently. I'll need to look into this as I value my exchanges with you here.

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Gregor 8mo ago

Summarize Notifications on iOS generates these, for nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 in this case. I mostly find its clumsiness amusing, I do appreciate that the routines supposedly run fully local though.

Regarding notifications, I have occasionally wondered whether my relay list somehow limits or slows my post distribution. The list seems in line with other users here though, and the relays pretty consistently reachable.