our brains are ultimately models that attempt to understand the universe they exist in
to train the most powerful model * get widest distribution of data possible * seek highest quality data * build self-consistent tree of knowledge w/ a high info rejection & compression rate
intelligence paths * bottoms up - machines read photons + physical interaction -> create an intermediate idea representation -> accumulate * top down - machines learn an intermediate idea representation -> use that to peer into the physical world + interact with it -> grow
the # of times i have an idea and decide to cache it because the latency to write to phone is too long or effort too high only to then find that the brain's cache is randomly non-persistent/ often corrupted and that i left no index to find it
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell
