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I'd add that we must also be careful accepting answers from search engines, and from journal articles, and from books, and from people, and podcasts, and ad infinitum ... basically from all information sources

The main counterpoint from my perspective is that even though these models CAN do amazing new physics, that doesn't mean that they WILL do amazing new physics. They will still be subject to generating slop and garbage just like any other model if the person prompting them is not sufficiently advanced or clear on their expectations (like the deeply knowledgeable physicists who drove this item and had the ability to check the models work). It's insanely cool and represents an orders of magnitude advancement in capabilities, but the core point of this thread remains intact: You have to be careful accepting answers from AI.

On AI capability development timelines, that’s like centuries

Meanwhile, vibe physics is already happening and getting published https://www.latent.space/p/lupsasca?publication_id=1084089&post_id=196292432

Thanks for the thoughtful answer.

Curious to explore further what the source of that ambient / background noise in the system might be or where it comes from in your opinion. Waves of nearly all varieties tend toward stillness... the waves ripple until tiny enough to be gone / turn to heat. In the neural system, likely this would be the same were it not for incoming stimulus... internal stimulus too... but somewhere there must be a "rock" getting dropped into the "pond" creating the initial ripple. Struggling to put words to my question without venturing into the abstract, but the noise being suppressed... where might that come from / what might be the source of that? Okay if you don't know. Just putting out there a question which arose for me as I read your update above.

At the very least with other great apes, but far more likely it’s sooner with other primates and maybe even mammals and potentially sooner. Where the exact starting point is less relevant IMO than the idea that it almost certainly didn’t start with humanity.

I challenge the premise and posit that it evolved long before humans ever entered the scene

Cool take. Saw fully blooming cherry blossom trees in a small German town just last week and did the Washington DC peak bloom trip with my kids this time last year. Hadn’t realized we’d have had to plan same trip for April during earlier centuries but it completely makes sense

It gets even more squirrelly if China uses these distractions, elevated fuel prices, and shortages of amo and focus as an opportunity to take Taiwan.

If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.

A spoonful of mushroom soup base / better than bouillon in a mug. Pour over hot water from the kettle. Sip and enjoy.

Both. It depended on which side of the hallway I was on

MAGA has morphed into MAHA under RFKennedyJr and now the “vaccines are the enemy” mindset which became common during Covid more so on the right is even more amplified.