imo current sota models are already smarter than most humans, because they are highly teachable (trainable) while many humans are actually not.

in my dream last night, I wasn’t a robot anymore, but i was a mushroom. A real mushroom.

RT @historyinmemes: This is one of the oldest songs ever discovered. Over 3,000 years old - found on a clay tablet in ancient Syria https:/….

when I just started marching, I wanted to go back after the first 2km and it seemed so far from the end of the 5km. then I figured that it’s basically the same freaking distance to finish it. then it repeated several times, and 5km got easier and easier and was not enough soon.

young people are ridiculous and they do ridiculous things, but some of those ridiculous things might evolve to have significant impact, like genetic mutations.

PhD == permanent head damage. remember that.

when my guitar teacher then just grabbed a random beginner guitar and tuned it a little bit and then played recording artist level track effortlessly, you know difference is not from the instrument itself.

when you see too many “because of evolution” blablabla, it starts to feel like looking at “yeah yeah yeah, out of a little luck, it became what it is now. not a big deal. just pure luck.”.

why is an animal or a plant a being confined in a limited and shapable space? why isn’t the world just a hot pot of everything? or, is it?.

though the common perception is that athletes have only strong muscles, I think their experiences and mindset of pushing to and beyond the limit and extreme physically are underestimated. not many people have that experiences in their entire life physically or intellectually.

I not only like uncertainty, I love uncertainty, very much. the process of figuring things out is very interesting and exciting. when they are figured out, it gets very boring very soon.

cold drinks are cool. but have you tried them with a broken straw that you have no idea which part is broken and you are already far from the place that made it?. it’s not just learned helplessness, it’s the real helplessness.

I think the search engine an AI chat box connects to affects which chat box I use. When I want to know things within china, I use a Chinese chat box; for international stuff, I use an international chat box.

ultimate optimistic: I now understand this better than my last life.

optimistic: I now understand this better than yesterday. very optimistic: I now understand this better than last month. super ultra extreme pro golden plus optimistic: I now understand this better than the moment I was born.

sometimes you think: oh this problem is not solved yet, oh that problem has no solution yet, oh I have no idea what this is. then you wait for some days doing other things, then one day you look at those problems again and they all seem solvable suddenly.

or AIs.

people say “oh I did this and I did that.”. then you ask them “what did you achieve? or what results did you get?”. they have nothing to say. what they really mean is: they wasted time on this and that.

operating*.

I’ve been keeping a journal for more than 15 years. Sometimes (e.g. now) I don’t want to and my handwriting is not good, but I think the me this time next month would wonder what I’m thinking now, then I reluctantly start writing random stuff and it makes more sense gradually.

and it thinks my age is most likely between 45 and 70.