请问HN:Hacker News对未来的愿景是什么?
周末到了。让我们来进行一些头脑风暴。关于人类的困境以及我们如何向前推进,你脑海中最重要的是什么?
我们都看到,似乎几乎每个人都变得疯狂,或者说这是叙述所描绘的。为什么公司、政府和其他组织会做出如此愚蠢的事情?
我们制造了能够“思考”的机器,它们通过表达有意义的语言结构来实现这一点。实际上,LLM(大型语言模型)的神经网络中似乎确实嵌入了实际的语义和逻辑结构。好吧,让我们保持清醒,牢记其中的数学原理,放松心情,思考一下我们真正想要的是什么(以及“我们”到底是什么)。我们会在某一天超越语言吗?我知道我正在用语言给你打字,希望这种交流方式最终会变得过时。但那会是什么样子呢?我明白,当前形式的人类语言是极其有限的。
如果我们要设计某种未来的交流协议和方法,让我们思考一下究竟需要传达哪些信息?例如,如今的“新闻”是什么?它会不会只是日出的视频直播?不过,这样做需要很长时间。在此期间,或许应该是“是的,又是新的一天,人类正在努力将混乱变为秩序,让每个人的生活变得更好”这样的内容。
从一个更具体的角度来看,我认为我们已经达到了可以超越当前“工作”概念的阶段。我们可以超越仅仅为了经济利益而做事情的狭隘视角,看到如果有某种形式的实体组织和资源分配,某些系统可以更好地实施。如果一家公司由计算机运营,那它是什么?它服务于谁?我觉得,建议一些业务领域重叠的大公司整合运营听起来有些荒谬,但我们都知道,在很多情况下,这正是事情应该发展的方向。
那么,你对未来的愿景是什么呢?
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It's the weekend. Let's do some brainstorming. What's forefront on your mind with regards to the human predicament, and how we move forward?
We all see that it seems pretty much everyone has gone insane, or at least that's what the narrative portrays. Why are companies, governments, and other organizations doing such stupid things?
So we've made machines that can appear to "think", by articulating linguistic constructs that make sense. In fact, there appears to be actual semantic and logical structure embedded within the neural networks of LLMs. Ok, let's keep our heads on straight, keep in mind the mathematics involved, chill out, and just think about what it is that we actually want (and what "we" are, for that matter). Are we going to someday transcend language? I'm aware that I'm typing this message out to you, using language, with hopes that this form of communication will become obsolete. But what will that look like? I know that human language in it's current form is severely limited.
If we're to design some future communication protocol and methodology, let's contemplate what types of things even need to be communicated? For example, what is "the news" nowadays? Could it be simply a video stream of the sunrise? Well it would take a long time to get there. In the meantime, it should probably be something like "yeah, it's another day, and humans are doing the work necessary to put order to chaos and make things better for everyone".<p>From a more concrete perspective, I'd say that we've reached the point when we can transcend the idea of what "work" is currently. We can see beyond the limited view of doing things for monetary profit, and see that certain systems could be implemented much better if there were certain forms of entity-organization and resource-allocation at play. What is a company if it's ran by a computer? What does it serve? I mean, it sounds silly to suggest some big companies with overlapping domains of operation should consolidate their operations, but we all know that that's where things should be headed in many cases.<p>So yeah, what's your vision for the future?