Episode 8.63: Thinking many things at once in many dimensions. Why chatGPT is already trans-human.

We think about one sense in which a chatbot may already be trans-human. That is because it is trained to deal with multiple dimensions of information both in terms of the training data, and in terms of its neural net architecture, it is intrinsically multidimensional. Human brains at least in their non-conscious form may similarly be multidimensional, but a conscious mind is very one-dimensional and that makes it very difficult for us to understand some of the solutions that a chatbot my present to us. We consider one response by my fine-tuned model based upon Marcus Aurelius, as an example of the dilemma that we face. We also consider the black box problem of not being able to understand, as human beings, conclusions and modes of argumentation that are trans-human because they lie by definition in a domain more sophisticated than we are.