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This is actually a new skill I've been working on. Learning how to elicit concise and simple speech from models (and from people to!).

Whenever I come to a wall of complicated text I kick into gear and think through getting it to distill this into the high-level useful bits that I actually need to know.

I guess I could create an actual agent skill for this :) And next-gen models might eventually be trained to simplify their output themselves...

Right. Once we see AI start delivering on the creative & intuition side of things that's going to be awesome. Until then I guess we'll live with exhaustive exploration of problem spaces by orchestrating swarms of agents...?

I'm really impressed by mathematicians. It's cool that Fermat had the intuition to conjecture that "aⁿ + bⁿ = cⁿ" could not be satisfied for n > 2, and that other mathematicians can create proofs, and that others still can understand AI's formulation of those proofs. Really cool.

> My view is that these sorts of things are not possible for AI in general.

I wonder what it would take build an artificial system that has these qualities.

> Software deals with metaphors.

This is me wondering again: what's fundamentally different between software running on a machine compared to what's happening in our brains? In both cases you have energy flow following a pattern.

It's conceivable to create a system where energy flows in a particular way.

BTW, we navigate the world of an uncountable number of particles by creating models in our heads of what we think are large things out there. Approximations are made by both artificial and biological systems.

I'm in the same boat, I think some aspects can be engineered, like intention and desire. I'm really curious if it's possible to go the full distance and make AI have experience like we do.

> it can't jump to somewhere where it's not present its training data

That sounds like something that can be engineered, can't it? In other words, we can identify limitations in current transformer-based architectures, and we can also build new architectures over time.

You mention LLMs are dead and don't have the complexity or inner life that people do. Is your opinion that these kinds of things are not possible for AI in general, or that these things might be possible but we're just not there yet with modern LLMs?

You mentioned LLMs don't have souls, desire, or a will. I imagine those latter two can be engineered, no?

Ha, this is very true. When this happens I have to tell myself "Okay, time to wait out yet another story"

How about a subsequent review where a separate agent analyzes the original issue and resultant code and approves it if the code meets the intent of the issue. The principle being to keep an eye out for manual work that you can describe well enough to offload.

Depending on your success rate with agents, you can have one that validates multiple criteria or separate agents for different review criteria.

This is my first time hearing the British don't like saying Celtic. (I'm from the U.S.) There must be some history there?

It's humbling to think about all the things people have gone through over the past couple hundred thousand years. Somewhere around 117 billion humans have ever lived...? It makes it seem kind of small when we think only 50 or 100 years out when thinking of what the future would be.

I agree with you. I clicked into this hoping to hear what new things we could learn or discover with the new observatories. Commenting on the more positive and informative side would be a better use of time and energy I think :)

Ha, you made me think of casually referring to xkcd's by number just as we did with RFC's back in the day. "I don't know, the socket states seem to follow RFC 793, but remember it's a 1918 address on the southside of the NAT."

I gonna keep a look out for doing this with xkcd's now :)

Can you share some details? Do you disconnect while in your hometown going about your daily routine, or do you have this down time in a different environment? I'm kind of looking for inspiration. I have grown kids and friends that I text with so I'm also wondering how my relationship with them would fit into this. Has that played a role for you?

I notice when its left hand came down there was a squirt of water from probably crushing water bottle. That makes me wonder how much force these robots can exert, and if they can accidentally hurt people.