I’d like to see GPT-3 do interpolations. As in, I supply first and last lines of a story, plus maybe a few waypoints, and it fills in the rest plausibly. What I’ve seen so far is a tradeoff between directedness and coherence.
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In the talebverse reading of anecdote, the strawman opposite of Joe Siegel, the successful green lumber trader is some sort of notional intellectual-yet-idiot who talks a lot and knows “useless” facts like what green lumber actually is and feels superior while being ineffectual.
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This is common in talebverse (more common with his fans than himself). a) define “real” as “financial success” b) define “actually important” as “leads to financial success” c) label everything else as intellectual affectation
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A more accurate view is that money and words are both varieties of speech. One just deals in a more valuable currency. In the open real world beyond words, trades, and green lumber, the value of knowing what green lumber is, and what you can do with it depends on context.
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The works is bigger than words and trades, and it’s a kind of acting dead to limit your life to restricting epistemology to a semi-closed symbolic domain and further to notions of winning within them.
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