This is a great discussion Jannik! So glad you are getting into Antifragile and Taleb's work. I agree someone has to have *some* intelligence to know the benefits of optionality.
I think Taleb is taking a particularly "academic" or "intellectual" type of intelligence as his opponent here - not the "street smart" intelligence.
So great to see you uncovering some of ChatGPT's biases along the way too
One of the things Aristotle is most famous for is his analysis of practical intelligence (phronesis). He is praised for his deep understanding of how the human mind interacts with the complexities of the real world. In this area, as in so many other, Aristotle is often contrasted with Plato - who many think have a very one dimensional understanding of practical reason according to which a philosopher necessarilly has better practical reason than other human beings because of this theoretical insight. Suprisingly, Taleb focuses on Aristotle rather than Plato as main source of bad thinking about practical reason. On the basis of Aristotle's understanding of a classic story about how the philosopher Thales made a fortune from his ability to predict a good olive harvest, Taleb portrays Aristotle as someone who does not understand practical reason at all - without mentioning Aristotle's analysis of phronesis with a single wordl. To me that makes it hard to take Taleb seriously.
I don’t think ChatGPT has an opinion here or an”attitude”. It’s programmed to be forward leaning rather than “balanced” in its solution thinking. It found this line of thought the most promising to answer your questions. If you push back with arguments that make sender and are logically correct it will correct itself. So no I don’t see the bias you seem to sense? Or maybe I am not sensitive yo the nuances here? Nice conversation.
Great work, Jannik. Love the way you documented your exploration using ChatGPT. I find “conversations” with the machine an excellent way for me to clarify my thoughts. I am concerned when we ascribe the machine as having “thoughts”. Not thoughts like humans, right? After all it is just a very very very clever encyplopedia with a smart look up system and a chatty interface. Not a human, right? But this was an excellent review of the issues and a valuable compare and contrast between Talib and Seneca. Gave me inspiration for an assignment for my graduate students in my robots class. Thanks! Love your work by the way.
Thanks, Andreas 😊 I don't think much about how LLMs work or how we should describe what they do. It's enough for me that I can have meaningful conversations with them. It seems to me that a lot of the people who are sceptical about AI are reductionists in relation to all forms of intelligence - human intelligence included. There do seem to have beeen a strong tendency towards "intelligence denial" in the western world since logical positivism.
This is a great discussion Jannik! So glad you are getting into Antifragile and Taleb's work. I agree someone has to have *some* intelligence to know the benefits of optionality.
I think Taleb is taking a particularly "academic" or "intellectual" type of intelligence as his opponent here - not the "street smart" intelligence.
So great to see you uncovering some of ChatGPT's biases along the way too
One of the things Aristotle is most famous for is his analysis of practical intelligence (phronesis). He is praised for his deep understanding of how the human mind interacts with the complexities of the real world. In this area, as in so many other, Aristotle is often contrasted with Plato - who many think have a very one dimensional understanding of practical reason according to which a philosopher necessarilly has better practical reason than other human beings because of this theoretical insight. Suprisingly, Taleb focuses on Aristotle rather than Plato as main source of bad thinking about practical reason. On the basis of Aristotle's understanding of a classic story about how the philosopher Thales made a fortune from his ability to predict a good olive harvest, Taleb portrays Aristotle as someone who does not understand practical reason at all - without mentioning Aristotle's analysis of phronesis with a single wordl. To me that makes it hard to take Taleb seriously.
I don’t think ChatGPT has an opinion here or an”attitude”. It’s programmed to be forward leaning rather than “balanced” in its solution thinking. It found this line of thought the most promising to answer your questions. If you push back with arguments that make sender and are logically correct it will correct itself. So no I don’t see the bias you seem to sense? Or maybe I am not sensitive yo the nuances here? Nice conversation.
Outstanding.
Great work, Jannik. Love the way you documented your exploration using ChatGPT. I find “conversations” with the machine an excellent way for me to clarify my thoughts. I am concerned when we ascribe the machine as having “thoughts”. Not thoughts like humans, right? After all it is just a very very very clever encyplopedia with a smart look up system and a chatty interface. Not a human, right? But this was an excellent review of the issues and a valuable compare and contrast between Talib and Seneca. Gave me inspiration for an assignment for my graduate students in my robots class. Thanks! Love your work by the way.
Thanks, Andreas 😊 I don't think much about how LLMs work or how we should describe what they do. It's enough for me that I can have meaningful conversations with them. It seems to me that a lot of the people who are sceptical about AI are reductionists in relation to all forms of intelligence - human intelligence included. There do seem to have beeen a strong tendency towards "intelligence denial" in the western world since logical positivism.