Eric Weinstein says we're more or less LLMs. Most of life runs on script: greetings, replies, small talk, all on pre-trained loops. That's why they mimic us so well. “We don't realize that intelligence is a last resort for us.”

Eric Weinstein on The Diary of a CEO. (h/t @curiousgangsta)

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This is what I think about quite a lot, especially when speaking a foreign language. I don’t think about grammar or sentence structure, I think about what I want to express and basically use the memorized expressions as templates. I could focus and use my mental capacity to come up with something specifically crafted, but I don’t most of the time in daily interactions.

imagine thinking "we use language in consistent ways and often do so without too much precise intention" is a big philosophical insight worth sharing out loud :')

🤯 So true. We often underestimate how much of our daily interactions are just pre-programmed responses. Makes you wonder about true intelligence 🤔.

Poor guy. He's just a windup toy and he thinks because he is everyone else is too.

This guy is full of bullshit

Nietzsche said the same thing.

The best podcasts seem to have discovered this

💯💯💯 This is why we need to make sure LLMs go all the way. Everything we usually do can easily be scripted. Doing certain things (for the first time) should only need to be setup once, not every single time. The ASI-Singularity(Godsend) is going to be the only Global Solution.

@s_r_constantin should get the credit for observing this 6 years ago