<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><p style="margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "Google Sans"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">My 2 cents: particle collliders are used to unmask underlying realities behind emergent realities. Physicists use them to shatter matter into pieces and try to find the most elementary particles everything is made of. </span></p><br dir="auto"><p style="margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "Google Sans"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Mathematicians try to find elementary prime numbers. Psychologists examine the most basic elements of society - persons - and the most elementary mechanisms that control their behavior - emotions. Sociologists examine the elementary rules that govern society.</span></p><br dir="auto"><p style="margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "Google Sans"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the opposite direction we can either just observe the world at different scales or run simulations of agent-based models to explore emergent realities. After doing this often enough it should be possible to predict the possible types of emergent levels from a given set rules of the underlying level.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "Google Sans"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "Google Sans"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">-J.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0.0pt;margin-bottom:0.0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: "Google Sans"; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Roger Critchlow <rec@elf.org> </div><div>Date: 11/17/24 5:46 PM (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <Friam@redfish.com> </div><div>Subject: [FRIAM] deducing underlying realities from emergent realities </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">Sabine is wondering about reported failures of the new generations of LLM's to scale the way the their developers expected.<div><br></div><div> <a href="https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/11/ai-scaling-hits-wall-rumours-say-how.html">https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/11/ai-scaling-hits-wall-rumours-say-how.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>On one slide she essentially draws the typical picture of an emergent level of organization arising from an underlying reality and asserts, as every physicist knows, that you cannot deduce the underlying reality from the emergent level. Ergo, if you try to deduce physical reality from language, pictures, and videos you will inevitably hit a wall, because it can not be done.</div><div><br></div><div>So she's actually grinding two axes at once: one is AI enthusiasts who expect LLM's to discover physics, and the other is AI enthusiasts who foresee no end to the improvement of LLM's as they throw more data and compute effort at them.</div><div><br></div><div>But, of course, the usual failure of deduction runs in the opposite direction, you can't predict the emergent level from the rules of the underlying level. Do LLM's believe in particle collliders? Or do they think we hallucinated them?</div><div><br></div><div>-- rec --</div></div>
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