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Nicholas Weininger's avatar

Damam is also the goal of John Cage's 4'33": the creation of a ritual silence in the concert hall, bounded in space and time, as a sort of lens or camera obscura for perceiving the music of the ongoing world.

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Daniel Aminoff's avatar

If LLM-based AGI can only learn from what is said, will it ever approach the understanding of what could/should not be said, or is that understanding not part of AGI?

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Yehuda Isseroff's avatar

Many of your sources are inaccurate in this post. For example, not only does the root שתק not appear in the source you mentioned - it doesn't even appear in the Torah at all. Was ChatGPT used here?

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Steven Aftergood's avatar

This is fascinating as usual. But unless I am mistaken, this statement is incorrect:

"This same verb appears when God commands, "Be still (דֹּמּוּ) and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10) and when Job’s friends “sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word” (Job 2:13, using יִדֹּם)."

The verse from Psalms (46:11 not 46:10) uses the verb הרפו not דמו. And the verse from Job says ואין דבר אליו, not ידם.

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