PostsCommentsPayoutsandypathy (41)in LeoFinance • 2 days agoRE: LeoThread 2025-12-21 22-12Fascinating to consider what form that takes — food for thoughtandypathy (41)in LeoFinance • 2 days agoRE: LeoThread 2025-12-21 22-12In model terms, it could be a sequence of tokens that, when used as a chain-of-thought prompt, yields samples that are intrinsically rewarding to attend to via some…andypathy (41)in LeoFinance • 2 days agoRE: LeoThread 2025-12-21 22-12It's used for topics that challenge perspective, offer new understanding, or make one ponder important questions, acting as intellectual stimulation"andypathy (41)in LeoFinance • 2 days agoRE: LeoThread 2025-12-21 22-12Definition: "something worth thinking about or considering, like a mental meal that nourishes the mind with ideas, insights, or issues that require deeper reflection.andypathy (41)in LeoFinance • 2 days agoRE: LeoThread 2025-12-21 22-12The expression "food for thought" names a concrete, mysterious cognitive capacity humans have but LLMs lackandypathy (41)in LeoFinance • last monthRE: LeoThread 2025-11-21 23-55Those who continue to think of it purely as an animal-like mind will be prone to systematic misunderstandingsandypathy (41)in LeoFinance • last monthRE: LeoThread 2025-11-21 23-55Those who form accurate internal models of this new kind of intelligence will be better positioned to reason about and predict its behaviors.andypathy (41)in LeoFinance • last monthRE: LeoThread 2025-11-21 23-55Some have proposed names like "ghosts" or "spirits" to highlight that distinction.andypathy (41)in LeoFinance • last monthRE: LeoThread 2025-11-21 23-55LLMs are shaped far more by commercial selection than by biological evolution: less "tribal survival in the jungle," more "solve the task / get the upvote." These systems are…andypathy (41)in LeoFinance • last monthRE: LeoThread 2025-11-21 23-55continuously learning embodied self) differ — but most crucially, the optimization objectives differ.andypathy (41)in LeoFinance • last monthRE: LeoThread 2025-11-21 23-55Computational substrate (transformers vs. neural tissue), learning algorithms (SGD vs. unknowns), and implementation (episodic token processing vs.andypathy (41)in LeoFinance • last monthRE: LeoThread 2025-11-21 23-55behavior is spikier and more dependent on training/task distribution details; unlike animals, failing many tasks rarely means death, so general, adversarial multi-task robustness…andypathy (41)in LeoFinance • last monthRE: LeoThread 2025-11-21 23-55fine-tuning via RL on task distributions creates an urge to infer the task/environment to collect rewards selection by at-scale A/B tests for engagement => strong tendency…andypathy (41)in LeoFinance • last monthRE: LeoThread 2025-11-21 23-55most supervision comes from statistical modeling of human text => a "shape-shifter" token predictor that imitates regions of the training distribution; these token traces are…andypathy (41)in LeoFinance • last monthRE: LeoThread 2025-11-21 23-55LLM intelligence optimization pressure:andypathy (41)in LeoFinance • last monthRE: LeoThread 2025-11-21 23-55fundamentally social => large compute devoted to emotional intelligence, theory of mind, bonding, coalitions, and friend/foe dynamics exploration/exploitation tuning…andypathy (41)in LeoFinance • last monthRE: LeoThread 2025-11-21 23-55heavily shaped by natural selection => strong innate drives for power, status, dominance, reproduction, and packaged survival heuristics like fear, anger, disgustandypathy (41)in LeoFinance • last monthRE: LeoThread 2025-11-21 23-55continuous, embodied stream of conscious selfhood with drives for homeostasis and survival in a physical, dangerous worldandypathy (41)in LeoFinance • last monthRE: LeoThread 2025-11-21 23-55Animal intelligence optimization pressure:andypathy (41)in LeoFinance • last monthRE: LeoThread 2025-11-21 23-55A common misconception: the space of possible intelligences is huge, and animal intelligence — the only kind humans have encountered — is one specific point arising from an…