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Sergey Khromov-Borisov's avatar

It should be quite fruitful to depict all these musings onto the Ashby Space.

Ashby Space is amazing tool for visualizing knowledge complexity based upon the namesake Asby's law of requisite variety.

Its source are the works of Max Boisot and Bill McKelvey, see also a nice summary here:

https://harishsnotebook.wordpress.com/2019/04/28/exploring-the-ashby-space/

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Rohit Krishnan's avatar

Fascinating!

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Theory Gang's avatar

My first thought is that we are misusing/mislabeling TikTok. People are hungry to learn on there if we meet them where they are.

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dzen's avatar

Anil Seth’s 'beast machine theory' suggests consciousness as merely a result of 'controlled hallucinations' that are our brain's attempt to keep us alive.

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Rohit Krishnan's avatar

Interesting. I'll have to read more on this. I do believe the fight against entropy, self directed, as key to this, though it's a conjecture.

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Rohit Krishnan's avatar

I think hallucinations work for us because we have reality as a baseline to compare against. For LLM today it's all hallucinations (or all reality).

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