"Analogical reasoning is at the heart of human intelligence and creativity. When confronted with an unfamiliar problem, human reasoners can often identify a reasonable solution through a process of structured comparison to a more familiar situation."
Analogical reasoning is a special gift of humans. This fruit is nowhere as developed in the tree of life.
But what if we extend the view beyond biology and look for this powerful form of learning in non-biological systems, like Large Language Models (LLMs)?
One question is whether LLMs are capable of human-like, zero-shot analogical reasoning. Here "zero shot" means no solution-specific training needed in advance. To test this question, researchers compared humans and LLMS on a variety of analogy types.
The result? LLMs performed remarkably well compared to humans across a variety of analogy types. They even did quite well working with story-based analogies.
That seems very surprising.
The full study is worth reading.
Emergent Analogical Reasoning in Large Language Models
There are many use cases for community.
Over time, solution providers will feel growing economic pressure to deliver services through the medium of community. This socio-economic structure could help rebalance things a bit by rebalancing power dynamics that currently skewed toward plutocracy and monopoly.
Community unity can be a source of great wealth. Imagine community marketplaces structured as economic commons. Community could replace retail and do so in a way that skews toward the benefit of real people, validated as provably human, through living and engaging in community.
Regeneration does not come without a redesign and it's time to get started.
What services do you think will emerge out of this kind of economic structure?
Adding Midjourney to Your Own Discord Server -- Easy
If you use Midjourney and are tired of keeping track of your creations in the constant flow of messages in the various channels on the Midjourney Discord server, there is another option!
You can add the Midjourney bot to your own Discord server. And yeah, creating your own Discord server is pretty easy. Here are instructions for creating your own server and adding the bot: docs.midjourney.com/docs/invite-the-bot
I found the part about inviting the Midjourney bot potentially confusing. What they mean is, click on the Midjourney icon from within the Midjourney Discord server. See pic. Then select, "Add to Server." See other pic.
On my own Discord server, I can now have all my creations organized into various of my own channels, based on various types of art that I want to do, like work stuff, fun stuff, etc. It's made a big difference and I don't know how many people know you can do this.
I'm hoarding this. ;)
Just did my first collections on Lenster. It's nice to have built-in support mechanisms for creatives, especially when they're pushing the edge of new forms of creativity.
Ecosystem goods are good, too. They are really important, regardless of whether they are for protocol, service, or community network.
They're just not necessarily public goods.
Public goods and ecosystem goods exist on a spectrum of openness.
In the days of Midjourney, the job of artist changes a bit.
Might artists generate income by licensing their style as algorithmic filters? (e.g. "in the style of Maxfield Parrish").
At first, I didn't know how to feel about that. But my view is changing.
We're thinking about creative appropriation: "The main problem... is that it was trained off of artists’ work. It’s our creations, our distinct styles that we created, that we did not consent to being used..."
But we could be seeing it as artistic recognition. When I incorporate "Wassily Kandinsky style" into my Midjourney imagine prompt, am I not advocating that view? And stirring interest in the original?
Sounds good in theory, but the underlying economic incentives are misaligned. This sounds like a job for tokenomics and token engineering. The key is tamper-proof attribution, or tamper-proof provenance. The OpenSea experience is sobering here. They tried to promote provenance-based royalties, but the market has degenerated to a lowest-cost, 'number-go-up' model that hurts creativity and originality.
In the long-run, we're only strangling the font of genuine creativity with this approach. If we're not careful, we'll end up in a metallic echo chamber. We don't want machines riffing over and over on a creative human signal that just dropped off starting in the 2020s.
Civilization needs new incentives for creativity. It won't be easy to figure out because mixing economic compensation and artistic expression is always fraught with complexity.
But we have to start someplace, and I think that baking provenance into contract enforcement is critical. It's probably going to need to happen at the chain protocol level to be meaningful.
why is image upload so funky on @Lenster?
is there a good place for me to understand the image storage approach on Lenster?
Maybe it will explain why I might be experiencing this problem of images not showing up in my posts. It's happened 3 times in a row at this point, and I'm wondering if it's something I'm doing.