[FRIAM] Entropy RE-redux

[Roger Critchlow]

Intuition, hah.  I thought of starting a scam to sell "Golden Gut" pills to
those who could be persuaded that fecal transplants from Donald Trump's
colon would be beneficial to their gut decision making.

Hunnoz?  Maybe I should peddle the idea to Trump.

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On Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 12:21 PM glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> It prolly won't surprise you that I disagree (I think). Those intuitions
> that we develop may be a) interesting to like-minded people, b) valid to
> those who hold the same value/logic systems [⛧], and c) useful for sussing
> out us-vs-them [in|out]groups.
>
> But they don't necessarily track reality. You might even say (ala the
> Interface Theory of Perception) those intuitions are inversely proportional
> to one's ability to track reality, the stronger they are, the less they
> track. This is adjacent to Eric's full tea cup.
>
> E.g. someone like Denis Noble, whose had a fantastic career in science.
> But now that he's old and out of his lane, his confidence puts him out in
> front of his skis:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Noble#The_Third_Way_of_Evolution
>
> If we allow something like an intuition in LLMs, it should be clear that
> in order for them to track reality, they need "online" learning (as Marcus
> has proposed) and/or robotic embodiment to be able to interact with the
> reality we expect/want those intuitions to be about. But where you could
> argue with me might be on something like "muscle memory". Turns of phrases
> in a language should probabilistically constrain the response from the LLM.
> This might be similar to the way some words and phrases roll off the
> tongue. But in that sort of case, it's not *intuition* as we might normally
> think of it ... it's more like habit or practice. Again the emphasis is
> more on the doing than the thinking.
>
> [⛧] Indeed, the only way "valid" has any meaning at all is in the context
> of a language system ... if you fail to say what logic you're working with,
> the use of "valid" is invalid. 8^D ... sorry for the poetic license.
>
>
> On 6/18/25 10:35 AM, steve smith wrote:
> >     "the language bots are handing back is the only thing it can be; a
> regurgitation of the canons of the textbooks".
> >
> > My experience (and hypothesis) is that the "more" they hand back is in
> the well-selected combinatorial interpolation (and some extrapolation) they
> can do?
> >
> > I think *this* is what we humans do collectively as well,  we each study
> and read hundreds of other precursor thinkers/writers and then maybe spend
> years trying to regurgitate that to students in a digestible form, and
> along the way, we develop our intuition about which of the
> interpolations/extrapolations/combinatorics that come up in that work might
> be useful/interesting/valid?
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