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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelops us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space traveler’s helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment; death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego.
Reality Hunger
David Shields
Similarly, if you give GPT-3 a task that's too complex to do in the time it takes to calculate its next token, it may confabulate an incorrect guess. Yet, akin to humans, that doesn't necessarily mean the model is incapable of the task. With some time and space to reason things out, the model still may be able to answer reliably.
openai-cookbook/techniques_to_improve_reliability.md
openai
Revolutionary knowledge rarely makes it to the center, because the center is built on existing knowledge.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
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