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Maybe a silly question, but why is this considered “reward hacking” instead of something like “the goal state was ambiguous”? Ambiguous as in there is more than one “meaning,” or path to the goal image, and the actual path isn’t specified.
(Maybe it was specified in some other way in the instructions, and that context was ignored and not used to resolve the ambiguity?)
Who are the linguists that take LLMs seriously? As in they acknowledge that llms have great implications for the field of linguistics, and are actively curious and studying them.
Where can I find these people? Anyone have any pointers?
I like this bit of dialogue from Speaking Being, where a participant is asked to observe and describe the properties of her headache (like Focusing in the manner of Gendlin)--
In particular, the bit about the phenomenological effect of the question "Why?"--
Try looking closely at some object, noting its characteristics, and then pull in "why?"; the effect is like a ramp off into the air, away. Presence is lost.
Remembered I woke up at 4am to furiously jot down something that came to me in a dream. I read the note this morning, it just says:
Inform
Ah, wow. I just tasted a chocolate that moved me to tears.
I always have this experience with To-ak where I go into it thinking it's going to be like other chocolates, and then suddenly the spirit of it arrives, it has a presence, I feel looked at in return-
I'm a little embarrassed, like, "yes, I know, I sent the invitation, I know I shouldn't be surprised you showed up, now you're laughing at me ahhh "
Full tasting notes:
One very salient thing about being in Prague for two months last year was my sense of timezones being split in two. I couldn’t stop tracking CA time in my body.
In the late afternoon, I’d feel the stirring of my friends. When I went to sleep, a part of me stayed awake.
I keep returning to the 'syllabus for an internet walk' whenever I have a bit of time. I always leave inspired, delighted, nourished in an inexplicable way.
(doesn't have to be read in order; scroll through, click into whatever stands out)
syllabusproject.org/syllabus…
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If you think that "feeling things in the body" or "somatic awareness" or "intuition" are not real things, try looking at these pics. Do you have a visceral reaction to them?
It turns out you have these visceral reactions all the time! You just need to learn to tune into them.
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To clearly and crisply visualize the whole knot all at once whole closing my eyes. I rehearse every angle, every path, every projection, every crossing, etc. until I get it all right as a single gestalt. It's a lot of work, but very beautiful as a whole.
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Kristoffer Tjalve and I collected the parts of the internet we don't see often anymore: the hole-in-the-walls, the shrines by the street, neighborhood cafes, and secret sunset nooks.
introducing our "syllabus" for taking an internet walk
ALT cinderella walking down a staircase of browser tabs, image from Ethan W. Anderson on are.na (https://www.are.na/block/6921578)
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I love learning Japanese, and the Internet is fantastic for learning languages.
This is a talk by Krashen on language acquisition. There has been a kind of awakening in the Internet spaces on how people really pick up languages.
youtu.be/iBuQ61lSIBI?si=LX00…
