There are two differences, it seems, between "sea monsters" and "sea creatures". The first is that sea monsters are named in Greek, where sea creatures are named in Latin. The second is that sea monsters don't exist. - Existential Comics
The comic and commentary is quite interesting as well.
White pyramids, assaulted by floods.
Age 10.
Seems more likely this was a vision...
https://akiane.com/product/the-pyramids/
The backstory of the artist is fascinating as well - https://youtu.be/yYIU0eNZg2U?t=596
近排食得清淡咗
娃娃菜切粒，然後擺埋落電飯煲同啲飯一齊煮 （飯要加少啲水，因為菜會出水），效果唔錯。
可以加少少椰子油、少量鹽吊味。
飯菜煮好之後，可以煎兩隻蛋（太陽蛋），撈埋入啲菜飯度。再加少少豉油調味。
最後成品會同炒飯差唔多 （只要水份控制得好）
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變化
- 娃娃菜可以用椰菜代替。都係要切細 （短幼條）。
- 可以加入啲煮好調好味嘅碎熟肉 （尋日煮咗成隻羊腿變咗肉鬆咁款，效果非常好 - 但如果擺啲生肉入去會麻麻哋）
- 加醃蘿蔔、黑木耳、蕃茄、等等都得 (不過個菜底都係白菜同椰菜之類會比較好）
At this point the connection between compression and intelligence is well known. A New Yorker article even boldly states in its title that "ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web".
But God is not a badly compressed JPEG.
This is why traditional wisdom cautions against "learning" as opposed to experiencing things in the raw.
The "real thing" is the crisp, unpixelated experience. It is the the original image of "reality"; whereas "learning" simply introduces "models" of the world, which gives rise to distortions like JPEG artifacts as a matter of course.
The more we "learn", the more we are able to reproduce imperfect impressions of the world. And we rejoice in that ability, perhaps, in a sense, delighted to realize that we have a mini-god within us.
But God is not a badly compressed JPEG.
If we learned anything about computational irreducibility, we know that there's is no "real" shortcut to truth. The truth is out there, as-is, for all to observe and experience.
If we are to create intelligence qualitatively superior to humans, i.e. not merely faster with more memory, we must ask ourselves what we are actually trying to do. The fact that humans have never been able to define "intelligence" is, in retrospect, a huge red flag. With the transformer language models, we have shown that run-of-the-mill "intelligence" is no more than lossily compressing common human knowledge into less than a terabyte and then telling it (sternly) to behave itself.
But that's obviously not enough. In theory, higher quality training data will help, but that is premised on the fact that we do have those data -- but obviously we don't have superhuman intelligence ourselves, so we can't create that superhuman training data. We don't even know what it might look like.
At some point we must realize that, without interpretation, data is just meaningless bits and bytes, and interpretation is just a preference. There is nothing inherently superior about arrangement of bits in one form over another. The data and interpreter are one, and the "limitations of the interpreter" imposes the same limits on what the data could do.
The only way to superhuman intelligence is to eliminate humans entirely from the loop.
Or.
We accept the world as it is. We see God in its original form, accept that we can only make badly compressed JPEGs of God's image, and be content.
Just a weird thought -
- In physics, event horizons are a barrier beyond which physicists generally claim that things inside don't matter (besides the mass and momentum) because we can't observe them. For some reason, they reject the idea of "god's eye view of objective reality" beyond the event horizon of a black hole, and settling on the idea that since it is impossible even in theory to get information out from the black hole, it's better to just treat it as an opaque thing.
But generally they don't (want to) extend this subjective view to either quantum physics, and they definitely don't posit the subjective notion that if you can't observe something, it might as well not exist until you look at it. It seems that the principle is the same. To me there is no qualitative difference between theoretical impossibility and practical impossibility. The difference is imaginary.
我唔係專家，以下只係講下個人經歷。
十幾年前，喺網上道聽途說，開始靜坐練氣。我用嘅方法好直接，就係靜坐用意念將啲氣喺身體各部位推嚟推去。穴道嘅嘢我唔識，但啲氣可以運走嘅管道，大概就係經脈。下盤聚氣，其實好易就貫通督脈 （脊椎嗰條）直達頭頂。任脈大概就係前面嗰條，由面部去到小腹。啲人話「打通任督二脈」就會有神通，我暫時就唔覺得有咩特別。不過我任脈都唔係好暢順，好多時啲氣聚頭頂散唔到，有幾年我就偶爾會有啲若有若無嘅頭痛。
試過幾次強行將頭頂嘅氣壓落去，然後眼鼻牙就會有啲「神經過敏」積像，眼易累，鼻入面去到喉嚨椗痕癢，好似就嚟想嘔咁。最誇張係門牙痛。我諗咗幾日係蛀牙定係因為氣塞導致嘅「敏感」⋯ 不過都只係痛咗一兩日，所以應該唔係註牙。
所以實驗證明以下係唔通嘅管道：
- 鼻 -> 唇 -> 門牙 -> 下巴
- 鼻 -> 鼻腔 -> 喉嚨
後嚟點樣解決？最後係舌頭頂上顎，配合吞嚥嘅動作，將啲氣由鼻經上顎舌頭導入喉嚨。自此以後啲奇怪「神經過敏」現像就少咗好多。
所以呢，有時見啲人討論坐禪條脷點擺，其實可能你冇呢啲問題就真係唔需要太理會。呢啲術式(?)嘅來源大抵都只有兩種： (1) 反覆實驗之後發現某方法可以解決某某問題 (2) 神仙授予，冇得解但有效。 暫時睇嚟舌頂上顎係 (1) 呢種。
