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To understand what non-deterministic, “syntax level” probabilistic models are actually producing (an illusion), we have to understand how the Mind (of an external observer) works, and how it produces Maya (which has been intuitively understood since the early Upanishads) – an ultimate illusion created by the Mind itself – an inner representations of the “outside” world, which the mind (and body) uses for “decision making”. The “outside” world is inherently complex, non-deterministic and “concurrent” at the level of “compositions” and, at the same “time”, deterministic enough at the level of the “most basic building blocks” (of biology, lets say) – “simple” molecular structure’s (“small” molecules) are exactly the same, exact copies of clones of each other (otherwise everything will break) while larger molecular structures (like whole proteins and their compositions) may have “flaws” or “mutations” or just simple “kinks” – a slightly different shape or a resulting form. ...

DESCRIPTION: Idiots, idiots everywhere.jpg I am getting old and my cognitive abilities are slowly declining, and I will have no pension or social security, so I need a “Turing Award” or something. (only partially kidding). And, yes, I “hacked” these “longevity” memes and “protocols”, but seems like fighting an increase in entropy and the second law of thermodynamics is not that efficient as some meme-guys claim on YouTube ). So, lets settle one fundamental meme-question once and for all, so we can let it all go and focus on “bio-hacking” and what not. ...

So-called Humanties (as the way of producing a sectarian socially constructed pretentious abstract verbiage) are done for. At least none of them deserve that high upper-middle-class social status anymore. Yes, you have to be actually smart to ask the “right questions” (be a prompt engineers LMAO!), but still. Watch how it spews out an outstanding “paper” in 30 seconds. I really don’t know what I have studied (wasted my life) for. Yes, yes, these are not final answers, and it missed subtleties, and more accurate, insightful formulations, but who needs them anymore? ...

The purpose of examination in a college or university setting is to empirically verify that a student has his own genuine understanding and could actually apply it. It is that simple. This is why some courses even allow to bring a textbook to an exam, because if one does not [already] understand the principles and techniques, the textbook is of no use. However, bringing pocket calculators, smartphones is considered a cheating, precisely because by using these devises one could appear as possessing one’s own understanding. ...

OpenAI has recently benedicted us with a 20 billion parameter “open source” model, which is a significant step up from the previous 7 billion parameter model. This model is designed to be more efficient and effective in understanding and generating human-like text, or rather to appear to do so. It is a total crap, by the way, at least compared to the online free-tier GROK (which is also very basic and limited). It is, obviously, “competing” with the DeepSeek’s “open source” offerings, and have a very similar “feel”. ...

I have noticed a resent dramatic change in the behavior of major GPTs online providers – most notably, Gemini is now providing just outline of code, full of stubs and “mocks” of real APIs, and not the full code. This is a significant change from the previous behavior where they would provide a semi-complete (but ridden with errors) code solution. Perhaps, mimicking the behavior of ChatGPT, which has been doing this for a while now – they “optimize” for more what appears to be a “dialogue” (more like a normie-level chat), to create a better illusion of “actually conversing with an artificial intelligence”. ...

We are living through a paradigmatic shift, the one described in the “Scientific Revolution” by Thomas Kuhn. As I mentioned many times, texts and even crappy code became very, very cheap, just like a processed junk-food or a low-effort street-food slop. This is the “shift” and the end of so-called “knowledge work” as we know it. At least this is the end of the pretentious “knowledge work”, when one just pretends to be an expert is social settings, using very straightforward verbal and non-verbal cues to signal their “knowledge” and “expertise”, just as a priest would do in the not so distant past. ...

Today’s bullshit was Surge CEO Says ‘100x Engineers’ Are Here. Yesterday it was “Gemini at IMO Gold level”. Again, mere appearances are not the facts of reality, but this realization requires a bit more education and old-fashioned intelligence, similar to that of Hesse or Sartre. What does it mean nowadays to be an engineer, and to be a 100x? It seems that the meaning is what they call “productivity”, which is time elapsed for putting together some spaghetti webshit .without any understanding whatsoever, from hundreds of lowest quality amateur node_modules in a few minutes. This is what 100x means for them, and this is, of course, bullshit. ...

Oh, look gold medal-level performance on the world’s most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO) Lets be very careful with this very clever deceptive and suggestive wording. The model “solved” (came up with acceptable solutions) some of the problems and failed on some others. The claim is that this is a gold medal-level performance, as a response to Musk’s claim of a PhD-Level in all fields. The facts, however, are following: ...

So I watched some. The launch video I mean. Closed the frame when they began that “voice” thing. The PhD. level across all subjects is just a meme. I can easily be shown by asking the question that require a beyond memorizing textbooks reasoning. I don’t want to “register” for “Grok4”, but here are some example problems which will break the “PhD level” meme. A recursive functions in, say, Ocaml, or Scala, without explicitly mentioning the accumulator pattern as the required way to avoid stack overflows on languages which does not do TCO at the compile time. This is very basic stuff, which all “PhDs” have to know. The inner lambda with an extra argument, and the “trampoline” is such a classic pattern that some compliers do it automatically. Again, without mentioning it the model will fail by writing non TCO code . ...