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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 5

      a game like townscaper is a good example of how the WFC algorithm works. (which is similar to the WFC as a concept in quantum mechanics)https://store.steampowered.com/app/1291340/Townscaper/ …

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    2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 5

      with townscaper, you can see that "observations" around a building "collapse" or "condense" around the existing homes. the new condensate fits the "shape" of the existing architecture so as you flesh it out, it gradually grows into an entire village

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    3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 5

      you don't have authoritarian high modernist control over what the output is. you can only say "hmmm this looks interesting, let's add more here." the only thing you can control is where you focus your attention and what you choose to call forth into existence

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    4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 5

      so for gpt-3, your prompt has to be something like a high dimensional vector pointing into a direction you find "interesting" however, this space is likely 99% empty even with the language corpus being the entire internet.

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    5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 5

      this is similar to olber's paradox. even though there are many many many stars. if you just point in a random direction, you're more likely to hit darkness rather than light.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox …

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    6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 5

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      so imo, the ability to riff off of metaphors and analogies is gpt-3's biggest strength.https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1340904815816179713 …

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      Just like video games transport you into a different world, an elaborate metaphor also is trying to "teleport" you into a different state. E.g. "swing the sword like a fishing rod" doesn't require you to literally believe the sword is a fishing rod.
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    7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 5

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      i have found that some people very much dislike metaphors/analogies because they find them too "magical". however they can actually feel very "intuitive". they connect two concepts through an "arc" or "portal" that skips logical deterministic pathinghttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1341959274964996096 …

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      In a strict rationalistic interaction, one must constantly signal adherence to a model of coherence. You can't "skip" a step by teleporting through a woo portal. It's (rightfully!) considered cheating.
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    8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat May 5

      this means that a metaphor/analogy "Points" from a Here to a There that is definitely THERE. this means that once you find one metaphor that successfully delivers a payload & connects the dots, you can use gpt-3 to figure out how to deliver other payloads along the same arc!

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    9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jul 5

      so classes of usage like "use it like a chat bot" work by incrementally refining and growing a pointer. it's actually an erroneous model to ascribe it agency when it's more like a knee jerk reaction searching for closure

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    10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jul 5

      with twitter threads, there a sensation of "open" and "closed" just like with stories there is a clear sensation when the story is "finished". (just like a joke "closes" w/ a punchline) the story tapers and there is a sense of finality and closure at a final "point"

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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jul 5

      rather than get gpt-3 to actually DO something specific, a better tool might be to find some way to manage these different pointers, cutting off low resonant directions but feeding interesting intermediary results into a main branch

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        2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jul 5

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          similar to how the "shape" of a blockchain points in the "direction of god" by requiring hashes to be prefixed with zeroes, this tool would help gradually refine the shape of a initial seed thought by helping to twist and "point" it in the right directionhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1405674449571962883 …

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          imagine a separated group of people with a set of hyper-dimensional legos. the goal is for them to build the same tower and be able to trust that everyone is building the same tower each new block has to be rotated in a super special way in order to "fit" on the tower
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        3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jul 5

          e.g. an example is a thread of ideas that you wish there were more of, or one that ended too quickly. or a thought that you can lightly grasp but have trouble cohering it into something more resonant

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        4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat Jul 5

          it helps explore the feeling of "knowing" that something is "there" and "i'll know it when i see it" and allows u to work it out rather than bump around randomly for it e.g. like growing a random plant until the first flower blooms to see its "final form"

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