To me it seems like contacting your local representative is actually pretty in line with your goal of "establishing in the mind of the commons". I'm not sure what the little team is that you think will be controlling everything.

"AGI needs to update beliefs when contradicted by new evidence" is a great idea, however, the article's approach of building better memory databases (basically fancier RAG) doesn't seem enable this. Beliefs and facts are built into LLMs at a very low layer during training. I wonder how they think they can force an LLM to pull from the memory bank instead of the training data.

LLMs are not the proposed solution.

(Also, LLMs don't have beliefs or other mental states. As for facts, it's trivially easy to get an LLM to say that it was previously wrong ... but multiple contradictory claims cannot all be facts.)

> how they think they can force an LLM to pull from the memory bank instead of the training data

You have to implement procedurality first (e.g. counting, after proper instancing of ideas).

Shouldn't be impossible. Samsung already offers Space Zoom which has a good UX and a LOT of image stabilization so your hands shaking isn't magnified by 100x.

As far as AI upscaling though, agreed. At least make a setting so we can do our own A/B tests.

Guessing this is a generational thing. I wasn't distracted by it because it's the same style that many of my friends text with.

This is the first time I've seen it in an actual article, however.

To be fair, I don't know how much of that huge input is stored for very long. Human brains are incredible at discarding unimportant information by generalizing information into broad ideas and emotions. Just think back to something that happened a few years ago and try to recall specific details.

Being able to identify and discard unneeded data in realtime seems like a huge step for AI that hasn't been really implemented yet.

Humans are EXTREMELY more energy efficient than computers; an adult human operates at something like 100 Watts on average (much less for children, of course), and that covers not only all of our mental processing, but also all of our physical movement, digestion, tissue regeneration/repair, etc.

At no point in our evolutionary history have we had the leisure to absorb the vast quantities of energy that AI supercomputers can. I think this probably has a lot to do with why we are so effective at learning on little data; even when large quantities of data are available, it seems we may not have the energy to take it on board. We ignore and forget most of it.

Maybe if we made a real effort to develop energy efficient AI, that design limitation would help us develop AI that requires far less training data.

Maybe that discarding process and the time it takes to learn it from a combination of so many different senses is the key to developing a human mind to the level of intelligence that it is/has.

I would not say that React won over svelte because of simplicity. Hate what you will about implicit behaviors in svelte, but the syntax is simple and intuitive.

React won by being early and different. Svelte came out three years after React and got (unfortunately) steamrolled.

There two notions of "simplicity."

One is that the implementation is very simple/transparent, e.g. C.

The second is that it allows users to have very simple code, e.g. Python.

React is mostly the first with a bit of the second. Svelte is the reverse.

how long until this gets nuked like youtube vanced?

There's revanced, just installed it today.

How easy the transaction is is almost more important to me than the actual cost. As long as it can be one click, I'll gladly pay 5 cents to read a good article

I love how pressing the 'next' or 'continue' button in the iOS keyboard actually advances the page when you're recording a trip. It's little details like this that make the app so much more pleasant to use.

Thanks so much for the nice feedback! I'm glad you enjoy the little things like I do :)

I assume these are the alternatives that people with javascript disabled really want

Nah. JS is fine for apps that need it. But a lot doesn't (every blog and news site) where JS is used for obnoxious animations and dark patterns.

And now the unwritten contract between users and companies has been broken, so I’d very much prefer most applications to be in the browser where they are contained instead of installed on my computer.

I feel like under all these CSS hacks there lies the kernel of something where you can write javascript, transpile it into a bunch of CSS and html, and effectively run it. Javascript-less javascript.