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I don't mean "we" as in FRIAM, I mean "we" as in nations. A benefit of capturing knowledge with LLMs, or similar technology, is that people wouldn't need to be educated about the same material over and over, especially if these systems are integrated into
our neural systems. Why not have individuals inherit a common database so that their lives can be spent on differentiated activities? There's so little that tie together individuals besides their fears and superstitions. When I see chatGPT emit passable
conversations like this, it seems kind of absurd to waste years of a young person's time covering the same old ground. (Actually, it already seems that way to me.) Countries like Israel and Greece have mandatory military service. Some believe this instills
in them values greater than themselves. In this case of the Borg, care of the collective is care of the self and vice versa. The common practice in the open source LLM community of fine tuning pre-trained LLMs is so much more efficient than what humans do
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 4, 2023 3:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
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<div dir="auto">Discussions with large language models are new. But you are right, we had discussions of similar topics before. Maybe I was hoping I could inspire Nick and/or Eric to write a summary of their ideas and what we have discussed before ( such as
the solution to the hard problem of consciousness, the nature of subjective experience and what it has to do with path dependence, complexity science and James' radical empiricism ).</div>
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<div>From: Marcus Daniels <marcus@snoutfarm.com> </div>
<div>Date: 6/4/23 9:54 PM (GMT+01:00) </div>
<div>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> </div>
<div>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Radical Empiricism </div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Jochen Fromm<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 4, 2023 10:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [FRIAM] Radical Empiricism</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">ChatGPT now allows sharing conversations. I've asked it about William James book "Essays in Radical Empiricism"</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><a href="https://chat.openai.com/share/375aef4e-a8d6-467e-8061-bd85b341c46b">https://chat.openai.com/share/375aef4e-a8d6-467e-8061-bd85b341c46b</a></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">-J.</p>
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