Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Well, let me give a brief preface. I work around 14 to 18 hours a day because I don't sleep much, averaging 16 or so, 7 days a week. However, I no longer stress as much as I used to. I take better care of myself now, which is a significant improvement. …
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Rick Rosner: So you just said that Chat GPT-3 is up now. Is that the deal? That's Chat GPT-4.0. 4.0. So, what is it being touted as? What are the improvements over the previous version? Scott Douglas Jacobsen: It appears to be better at analyzing and generating sound, text, and images, especially in speed. Rosner: Everything …
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yes. The basic premise is that these large-scale models were introduced only very recently. Despite their recent emergence, updates are being released rapidly, often within a year of each other. Each update is seen as a significant leap forward in accuracy, ease of conversation, depth of processing, speed of processing, and other aspects. …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: You had assigned homework for me, which I didn't complete because I took a nap. You wanted to discuss the role of God in Judaism? It's not only that, but a specific concept within a particular reform of Judaism. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The idea involves the Hebrew word for Messiah, meaning anointed. In …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I wanted to talk about the comparison and contrast between American styles of women's rights and Canadian styles, focusing on what Canadians and Americans are doing better. In my view, Canadians are probably doing better, even though the United States is a wealthier country. In the contemporary period, Canadian women …
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[Recording Start] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, what if at the lowest level, the world, lowest magnitudes, time doesn't exist? While at the higher levels, higher magnitudes, time begins to emerge and, in fact, becomes a major factor in the general business of the universe, the general informational processing of reality. There is self-interaction between the …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, you sent me close to a dozen definitions of information as defined by various disciplines. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Yes. Then I decided to take a broader, big-picture angle by examining the different levels of information. It fundamentally revolves around incompleteness. Our methods of understanding, such as the scientific method, rely …
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[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: In my novel, the main character, similar to myself, possesses a framework that, if not a complete theory of the universe, points towards one. As he ages, he increasingly treats it with casual disregard and allows it to diminish in importance. As he becomes engrossed in the minutiae of daily life, he …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: So, I'm going through my book and talking, which is set like ten years in the future, about what life might be like then. You said to plug Carole's book, too. I've been working on this thing for years and years; you could argue for decades because I'm taking much stuff from …
[Recording Start] Rick Rosner: I was talking about the square root law of mesh networks, which states that the efficiency of people whose brains are linked is proportional to the square root of the number of people in the network. Black box-ness. So, we see this with AI and Google Translate, where AI can be effective, …
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