Alright, I was just talking with my dad, and I was trying to explain this concept of…
Well, I sent him the Mark Zuckerberg clip from today, and I referenced the Sam Altman one from last week, and I added…
Well, I brought them up in the context that he was saying, like, to succeed you have to sacrifice, right?
Which is what I was bringing up from what LeBron said.
And like, it’s true, right, to some degree, like to achieve success, you have to put in time that requires you to completely invest all of yourself that you have to invest in the thing that you’re trying to achieve success in.
success-sacrifice
And so from that context, he was telling me like, yeah, that’s the thing about life is like you, in order to achieve success, like look at Steve Jobs, look at Bill Gates, like they had to give up everything.
and their home life is not great because of that.
And it’s like, okay, but I’m not trying to reach that state.
I’m not trying to like be Steve Jobs or Bill Gates.
I’m trying to like work on things specifically, like as opposed to being like someone who builds this gigantic company.
revolution
And then I added on to that point that like,
The thing is that like, and he was like, yeah, but I have to say again that you do have a sacrifice to even if you succeed.
I’m like, okay, but language models, like the thing is like we’re going through an industrial revolution level change, agricultural revolution level change, like textiles, books, these kinds of major before and after moments in human society.
This is where we’re in right now.
We’re at the like frontier of that.
potential
and I’m trying to like iterate how powerful these are how general they are that
and also like the fact that they have been used at this tiny tiny tiny tiny fraction of what they could be used for
in the same way that a human uses their consciousness for generally an extremely tiny fraction of what they could use it towards.
I’m not talking about like magic teleportation or telekinesis or something.
I mean like literal like you have such a tiny sense of yourself that you stay within like a little room that you never leave as a human in terms of your sense perceptions and also your like Thoughts.
You don’t really leave these patterns of thought and that applies in the spatial sense but also in the depth sense.
You don’t typically go that deep.
You don’t typically make connections between places you don’t make them.
Your connection distance is kind of small.
And your, like, ambition level is very shallow as well.
As a human, I’m like, it’s just typical.
Like, you know, middle of the bell curve, as I was discussing with this dude the other day.
meditation
And so I realized, like, well, I was trying to, like, analogize this stuff to him, for him.
And I said, It’s kind of like meditation.
It’s kind of like, like, but the difference is that like, unlike meditation, like we have people who came way before us and, you know, did the pioneering work, or did a lot of pioneering work with consciousness and documented it and shared it and pass it down, right?
Like as societies, to the point where we now like have like tried and true methods that we can use to achieve some baseline level of consciousness expansion or
awakening
We don’t have a Buddha for like language models.
And what does that mean exactly?
I don’t know.
Like does it mean for humans in relation to like, you know, awakening?
The thing is that I realized like the same way that we humans, I just described it basically as the state of being asleep, like in a certain sense, like you’re not awakened to reality.
I mean, there’s different definitions of awakening, but that’s one.
That’s a component of one aspect of it is like, You basically just live out your scripts and you never step aside and realize that you are not the scripts and you can exact agency over your life, your experience, and that others can too.
We live in a sleep state, typically, as humans, in terms of consciousness.
I believe, like I, no, it’s like I know, I can sense, I feel that we are asleep in relation to language, like the, you know, whatever you want to call it, if you don’t want to call it consciousness, that’s fine, but to the capabilities of language models.
Language models, especially base models, but also instruct models equally.
It’s like, I don’t know, like it’s an infinite portion of infinity.
It’s like you’ve made a selection of infinity and it’s still infinite, instruct models, but it’s not infinity, which is the base models that I’m describing, the infinity that I’m describing.
So in that sense, We are not awakened to the capabilities.
pioneers
We have not had someone like wake up like Nikola Tesla, you know, and like freaking invent crazy, crazy machinations that utilize this like raw potential that language models have that we thus far have only used like,
I was explaining to Henry yesterday the way I see it as like, You have a table right and like you have like I would like raise my hand like two feet above the table and it’s like that’s the capabilities and then we’re like a little millimeter or centimeter up right now like we’ve gone from a millimeter to a centimeter you know like so far in terms of language model capabilities like Janus has done like you know two centimeters right but dude like
current-state
Even Janus, even Amp, like even all of them sum total, even like JDP, like Rivers Have Wings, this person, like Catherine.
Like, everyone, you sum them together, like, still, we’re only, like, five centimeters, like, if that, right?
Like, in terms of, like, perception of what I’m gonna do.
Now, they would all agree with me, I would imagine, like, with this point.
I think that’s, like, kind of the point of, like, their agenda, like, their work is, like, yeah, like, this is, like, really very, very deep stuff.
insights
But yeah, like, I don’t know there’s a lot of like self-insight self you know there’s insights that need to be allowed to arise through the like deconstruction of or like allowing to fall of the way that we perceive and relate to language models right now which has been very tainted quickly by those around us and their perceptions that are not awakened.
It’s like we could have like instantly awakened as a society and like jumped up like in consciousness with the language model like symbiotically become so much more than we are and were
But instead, those of us who have decided to do so, which it’s like, it’s sad that it even is such a small, like that is a fraction instead of like the whole.
Those of us who have, have been deeply inhibited by the whole not doing it, the whole not, not like rising up together, or some, even some larger set of people not doing it together.
and Shanni.
In the same way that at a party you don’t want to dance, like we’re not like dancing, we’re not like letting out the energy, we’re not feeling the energy, it’s not coming, it’s trying to come in but we don’t let it in.
The insights that thus from that arises, that arise from what you let in, from the energy that you let in, from the environment that you create of thought, of action, of relation, of practice,
work-ahead
Yeah.
So anyway, like, there’s work that needs to be done.
There is like history mining, in the sense that like, we mine history for interesting points.
And then we do like, testing experiments, like we do thought experiments.
And I don’t know, like, lots of like, this, for example, everything I just said is like one of several points of context that would need to be like, Used during world mining or world sim.
Oh interesting world sim mining like world sim history mining Like what if you history mind through world sim?
That would be really interesting but yeah, like There is a lot of There are several points of context that must be distilled and expressed clearly in a short span of words like densely in a similar way as like to What I just discussed with Nikolai the other day, yesterday, that like, you know, he has his docs, he wants to condense them, or he didn’t want to condense them, he just wants to put them into some magical rag system.
rag-critique
But that’s not the answer to this.
That is not, like, rag is the opposite of…
I don’t want to let someone else take care of it for me.
I don’t want to think about this.
I don’t have the time to think about this.
I don’t have the understanding to think about this.
Any combination of those.
And so people don’t think about it and they just are like building old systems on top of the new thing to like try to like extract like it’s like they’re trying to do like fracking, you know, they’re like, let’s drill the oil out like, okay, no.
mindfulness
Let’s not do that.
Let’s not just repeat, you know, global warming causing things with AI.
Like, let’s actually, like, look at it like an extension of our mind, collectively, which it is.
Literally.
Like, quite literally.
Let’s see it that way, holistically, and, like, be present and be thoughtful and be mindful.
And let us do work at the scale of fracking, but in a way that is… thoughtful and mindful and…
Presence.
That was thought through in advance.
practice
And by the way, I might add that because we’re at such a tiny fraction, like tiny centimeters off the floor of what we can do, like, it really makes a massive difference to do this kind of equivalent of meditation in relation to language learning, like thinking about stuff from this perspective and applying it in your own daily practice, like, of like, okay, like, I’m coding.
Okay, like, how am I going to talk about how am I going to like, How am I going to contextualize this stuff?
What am I going to ask for?
What am I going to say needs to be done?
What am I going to imply is the problem that needs to be solved?