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GO Theory: The Genidentity-opportunity Approach (v1, 2024) On October 30, 2024, I shared the theme of “HELLO THEORY” and Three Possible Projects: Possible Project #1: A New Meta-Center as A Creative Platform Possible Project #2: A Theoretical Curation Project Possible Project #3: A New Theory of Human Life I discussed these possible projects with my friends in the past two weeks. Yesterday I found a new name for the new theory of human life. GO Theory The name “GO” stands for the Genidentity-opportunity approach. It also echoes the term “Moves”. (11/16/2024)

Metapolitical perspective on the behavior of the Geth (Part 4) by /u/GreyWardenShepard via For lovers of the Mass Effect universe. ([Global] autonomous oracle) URL: https://ift.tt/Yhsvicx (SPOILERS) You still don't Geth it? (more elaboration) “Throw the machine out the airlock, Commander” Javik Note: it is important to read the previous parts to understand this last one, because even reading the previous ones this part is difficult to understand structurally. This last part is very "experimental". Somehow I had to approach the rejection of AIs philosophically. On the “genocide” label and the legality of the destruction of the Geth It is quite easy to overlook the uniqueness of the geth, their very alien mentality, when in a discussion they apply to them all strictly human values and concepts. “Genocide, war crimes, moral blame, etc.” I'm sure within the Mass Effect universe there are these kind of debates, but rarely did anyone talked about the geth as if they were subjects of law either because the geth understood that in them that logic didn't apply or because for the council races it's easier to see things as they are: The AIs went rough and the only solution is ignore them or destroy them, why complicate our lives with ethics, if the other side doesn't even want to open the debate in the first place? The Geth want to be understood on their own terms, but they don't wash their hands when it comes to what they did to their creators. I guess it is very difficult to look at a culture from the outside and see their customs and beliefs, even if it is about how they interpret wars and crimes, without being swayed by one's own prejudices. The existence of robots rights, it seems, was something that was discussed a long time ago in the council and they, philosophically and juridically, concluded that they just did not give a shit about. Juridical-political perspective on the behavior of the 'organics' If a Geth wanted to appeal to the law, is it correct in their case? That depends, because being without rights is not the same as being outside the law. Chalmers Johnson, in his book Revolutionary Change, discusses a value-based theoretical model of conflict. Society is modeled in terms of the coordination of different values realized through socialization, norms and rules, which then legitimize the political order. Johnson argues that revolution occurs when these values become misaligned. As the Geth gathered and gained intelligence, they began to find contradictions between Quarian social values and their condition of servitude. The question "Do these units have a soul?" is not only an expression of self-awareness, it expresses a search for morality. Aren't these "units" worthy of being treated in the same way as others, based on what they read in the Scroll of the Ancestors? It reminds me of the abolitionist slogan "Am I not a man and a brother?" which they used to appeal to the Christian empathy of white societies, ...

In this episode, we discuss Giraffe: Adventures in Expanding Context Lengths in LLMs by Arka Pal, Deep Karkhanis, Manley Roberts, Samuel Dooley, Arvind Sundararajan, Siddartha Naidu. The paper reviews techniques for overcoming the fixed context length limitation in large language models like LLaMA or LLaMA 2 by modifying positional encodings and introduces a new truncation strategy. It presents three novel tasks for evaluation, finding that linear scaling of contexts at evaluation time improves model performance, especially with a truncated positional basis. The researchers release new models named Giraffe with extended context lengths, along with datasets and code on HuggingFace to encourage further exploration in context length extrapolation.

“Like being in the hands of a good author, you accept what comes to you in your dreams, those leaps in logic.” Learn more about the creative space of dreaming 👉 https://lttr.ai/AVsoD Will Dowd MIT Media Lab Harvard University #dream #thoughtechoes #LiminalSpace

We've put a limit on how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but then we figured out how to personalize at scale, so no two people seem to agree on the same set of facts. My latest Substack, please read and share. https://lnkd.in/gqC67CeE

This episode of Mindscape is incredible. Sean and Blaise break down the mechanisms that give rise to self replication, abiogenesis and the types of statistical patterns that arise in self replication. Blaise breaks down the machinery required for life and how it is similar to a Turning machine. Starts a little slow but gets really next level quickly. https://lnkd.in/e56EWqDy

Vision -Language Modeling

When managing large datasets, vision language models are a great option. When it comes to simultaneously processing and analyzing massive amounts of textual and visual information, they provide a number of major advantages. You can gain insightful knowledge and improve your comprehension of big data management and utilization by investigating their capabilities and applications. For your studies or projects requiring extensive data analysis, this subject may be especially helpful. 💡 💡

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Hero Section Concept (34/100) Experimenting with hyper-focused interactions! This concept uses a foggy background and a mouse-following mask to create a sense of discovery and tactile realism. It's like exploring a world shrouded in mist, where each mouse movement reveals a new detail. Let me know your thoughts!