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I’m considering hosting a “nonhuman intelligences study group” which is 1/2 about learning what AI is up to, and 1/2 about connecting with plant intelligence (or animal intelligence, or spirit intelligence - it could rotate) what AI/ML topics would y’all want covered?
@relic_radiation this sounds very cool, id definitely be interested in this. there's a concept of like "the computational structure of agentspace" that is substrate-invariant and based on logical functions that definitely warrants deeper exploration.
ohhh my own interest for the ML half would be this current open controversy: what kind of intelligence do LLMs exhibit? clearly something, but there’re soooo many kinds of intelligence that I’m not getting too worked up yet. rocks have intelligence. we could review these papers https://t.co/XQIjOj1XBN
and for the plant intelligence piece this book is top of mind for me right now. or maybe “braiding sweetgrass” and then I could also lead some experiential exercises in plant sensing - attuning to their nonverbal communication. or local edible plants https://t.co/4XvE4NU0c1
“The world is alive, intelligent, aware, communicative, and filled with soul. The dead, mechanical world we have been taught about in school does not exist and never has.” - wow there’s a book called Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm. and I think I need to read it https://t.co/AjZsWc2sIi
I’m happy to get arbitrarily technical with the ML bit, since I do have 3 years of ML research & eng experience also the 6 years of math & physics academia see this top notecard of - my real NLP notes - that I’m gonna draw on top of but haven’t yet https://t.co/dX7QhfHsGo
