Thoughts#
----Beijing has just welcomed the warm spring. At this moment, I am in the computer room on the 17th floor of the Renmin University of China, looking at the tall buildings outside and the distant Xishan Mountain, which resembles an ink painting. Perhaps the ancient people were right when they said that Beijing has the aura of a dragon. It is truly like a sleeping dragon, connected to the vast land without any sense of abruptness. Layer upon layer, with clouds and mist lingering, it seems like looking at a stack of cards. Of course, the above is all nonsense. The real reason is that the teacher was complaining during class that all the students went out to enjoy the flowers and talk about love on Saturdays. I sat in the back row, staring out of the window, lost in thought, wondering why I had to sit here and listen. Looking back now, it was probably because he invited a senior from the 2002 class to come (although it was online), and there were too few people present, so he didn't want to lose face (due to mkbk's strange sympathy). When I came back to my senses, that teacher kept calling someone named Lin Zong. It was really hard to explain. When someone asked him how many people were attending offline, he looked around for a moment and said embarrassedly, "About ten." I counted carefully, including myself as an auditor, and there were only eight people at that time. This teacher, who had a somewhat creepy smile, was right. Spring had indeed arrived in Beijing, as evidenced by the empty 120-person classroom.
----I didn't pay attention in class, and I felt restless. It's really annoying. I always have an inexplicable desire for exploration and a high level of superficiality. Mkbk, do you want to write your first xlog as a self-reflection? Hurry up and change it! Anyway, I don't like being surrounded by too many new things. Mkbk's English is not good, but I still want to learn English in the process of exploring new knowledge. When was the last time? It was last Sunday. I stared at the articles in the sidebar and finally chose one to read casually. Looking up new words and recording a small advertisement took me ten minutes, and of course, the advertisement was quite long. Is it because mkbk has a perfectionist mentality? I inexplicably remembered when I was in the first year of high school, thinking about being so awesome that the teacher couldn't understand my English composition. Of course, I didn't finish memorizing it in the end, but I did memorize a part of it, maybe one-fifth? The black stains on the Oxford dictionary in my dormitory can confirm this. But who would care about that? Heh. In the end, it wasn't that I couldn't memorize it anymore, but I found that I couldn't use the words I memorized in the exam. It was like Yu Dianyu had absorbed so much internal strength but couldn't use it. Multiple internal forces were mixed in my body, and in order to avoid bursting and dying in the end, I cleverly retreated early.
----But what was I going to say in the second paragraph if I didn't get caught up in memories? Mkbk, it's a matter of choice. Now let me list what I have been doing recently: vscode, pycharm, sublime, github (I got interested in it, but it took mkbk a whole night just to figure out the student discount, and in the end, I didn't even use Azure) (otherwise Azure wouldn't be in parentheses), anaconda (I have a deep impression of this. I encountered it when I was in high school doing a project, but unfortunately, I didn't know how to use a VPN at that time) (and I was too lazy to bother) (sigh, mkbk should reflect on this and apologize to my mother. She provided me with many choices that are now very useful, but unfortunately, I didn't do any of them). Mkbk really wants to learn, but often encounters difficulties in the second paragraph of the natural division, and can't understand anything, which is a bit annoying.
----------------------Wuwu, Maca Baka spins in circles~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
----Okay, actually, as long as I can accomplish any small task, it's fine. Mkbk's functionality is still very powerful.
----Maca Baka needs to do serious work now.
Response to a Friend#
Regarding resources
ymgg, I need resources!!!!!
----Hahaha, it mainly depends on each person's specific living environment. Economist Hayek talked about the division of knowledge. I'm borrowing this term here. No one can master all knowledge. Knowledge is deeply embedded in each person's environment. If AI is independently integrated into each person's specific position in the future, what will happen? Mkbk is thinking about it.
----Regarding digital avatars, I have actually read about this before. Some people want to train a "self" using their own chat corpus. But to what extent can what you write represent yourself?
I remember you also asked a question about tools and humans, the relationship between the suicide rate of the British and gas transformation. In terms of the previous question, when people face different tools, their attitudes and the degree to which they invoke themselves vary greatly.
----Also, if you were to analogize yourself to a specific thing, in how many dimensions do you think you exist? Three dimensions? Four dimensions? Or higher dimensions? In theory, as long as there is sufficient data, creating a digital avatar of yourself is feasible. It depends on the requirements of your own digital avatar. Humans are multidimensional, and the parameters that trigger their actions may be much more than I imagine, although AI also has many parameters.
----Most importantly, do humans really know themselves? I embrace this concept:
"The 'self' is invisible. It is only through colliding with other things and rebounding back that we come to understand 'ourselves'. Therefore, when encountering strong, terrifying, or high-level things, we then know what 'ourselves' are. This is self-discovery."
- Yoji Yamamoto
----Oh dear, I've said a lot, but overall, I haven't made any judgments about digital avatars. Whether positive or negative, just give it a try if you can create a digital avatar. It won't cost you anything. Thinking about many problems now is not beneficial. The combination of specific environments, technology, and tools will lead to a series of things that I can't imagine, just like ancient physicists couldn't imagine elevators. Maybe it's not that they couldn't imagine it, but thinking about it is one thing, and its general applicability is another. Costs, materials...
hhhh, some people say that the world is too unpredictable, but one explanation is that the world is too rational and too complex, surpassing the limits that humans can reach.
About mkbk's blog#
I'm too hungry, so I won't write anymore. I'll be back later. (I'll add it later.)