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Random ForestRandom Forest Close Menu Site Notice Author Contact Thinking hard and sloppily Menu Random Forest Life & Technology Ethics Politics Technology Oceanics Art Open source Philosophy Educational robotics Sexuality Travel Data Science Psychology Machine Learning Data Visualization AI Teaching Music Large Language Models Trivia Society Short Stories Web development - Sticky -Thinking hard and sloppily The user manual for my blog: why and how I write (and how to read my texts) Selfish genes don’t make humans selfish #77 | Marco Lardelli | Sa 24 Mai 2025 The story of our „super grandma“ Yvette (and why planning a good life cannot possibly work) Vibe coding: AI will always need a competent tech lead too #76 | Marco Lardelli | Di 20 Mai 2025 Software is far more than just functionality The ignored (but most essential) future skill: understanding human learning #75 | Marco Lardelli | Do 15 Mai 2025 Musings about the school of the future from an AI perspective Artificial Superintelligence: Swimming with Whales #74 | Marco Lardelli | Di 13 Mai 2025 Why should an AI want to harm or even kill humans? Tokyo vs Delhi - comparing the incomparable #73 | Marco Lardelli | Mi 19 März 2025 Musings on luxury, self driving cars and kindness Strawberry time, finally #72 | Marco Lardelli | So 09 März 2025 Yes, let‘s talk about menstruation - and feminism The random walk #71 | Marco Lardelli | Sa 08 März 2025 A mathematical explanation for the dire state of society No, humans are not evil #70 | Marco Lardelli | Sa 01 März 2025 Our expulsion from paradise: a reconstruction attempt (Part 4) Let’s create paradise on earth - a first blueprint #69 | Marco Lardelli | Mo 17 Februar 2025 Our expulsion from paradise: a reconstruction attempt (Part 3) The Stanford marshmallow experiment from a machine learning perspective #68 | Marco Lardelli | So 26 Januar 2025 Developing a more realistic paradigm for human like AI (1) A short history of women‘s power (3) #67 | Marco Lardelli | So 12 Januar 2025 And how the insights can be used to save the planet (Part 3: how women regained power) A short history of women‘s power (2) #66 | Marco Lardelli | So 12 Januar 2025 And how the insights can be used to save the planet (Part 2: how women lost power) A short history of women‘s power (1) #65 | Marco Lardelli | So 12 Januar 2025 And how the insights can be used to save the planet (Part 1: the color green, décolletages, dowry) We should not fear ASI #64 | Marco Lardelli | So 22 Dezember 2024 What drugs teach us about the purpose of man and machine AGI would be useless: it’s only a „faster horse“ #63 | Marco Lardelli | Fr 27 September 2024 And LLMs will serve only as human interface to powerful non human-like AIs Your modesty is my misery #62 | Marco Lardelli | Mi 28 August 2024 Musings about evil, luxury and happiness SAILSS: The Scouting AI Library for Social Sciences (3) #61 | Marco Lardelli | Sa 10 August 2024 Part 3: How to use the library. Examples. The forbidden question #60 | Marco Lardelli | Mi 24 Juli 2024 Are there ideas so dangerous that we should never even think about them? Hope, our friend and enemy #59 | Marco Lardelli | Di 23 Juli 2024 How our fears to lose hope have imprisoned us The wedding ring #58 | Marco Lardelli | Fr 19 Juli 2024 It will look beautiful on your hand Dialogue X #57 | Marco Lardelli | Do 18 Juli 2024 You challenged me to tackle the question „what is good sex?“ / „Yes means yes“, part 2 „Yes means yes“ is even dangerous for wankers #56 | Marco Lardelli | Mi 17 Juli 2024 This simply cannot work: a journey deep down the rabbit hole of sexuality SAILSS: The Scouting AI Library for Social Sciences (2) #55 | Marco Lardelli | Mo 15 Juli 2024 Part 2: Theory, examples, challenges and solutions Our expulsion from paradise: a reconstruction attempt (2) #54 | Marco Lardelli | Mi 10 Juli 2024 Part 2: how we lost compassion - a different short history of humankind Our expulsion from paradise: a reconstruction attempt (1) #53 | Marco Lardelli | Mi 10 Juli 2024 Part 1: compassion vs moral SAILSS: The Scouting AI Library for Social Sciences (1) #52 | Marco Lardelli | Mo 08 Juli 2024 An open source python library to speed up theory construction in the social sciences Moral and agency #51 | Marco Lardelli | So 30 Juni 2024 An analysis based on the immigration problem (moral is a symptom and not the solution, part 4) Two visits to Herbertstrasse #50 | Marco Lardelli | Sa 29 Juni 2024 A wild ride (powered by game theory) from prostitution to pedophilia (moral is a symptom and not the solution, part 3) Fear, racism and nationalism: the role of the media #49 | Marco Lardelli | Sa 11 Mai 2024 Fake content is maybe not a problem but the solution The tale of the semi-smart rats and their bitter fate #48 | Marco Lardelli | Di 07 Mai 2024 To their great misfortune they did not know themselves well enough Young people: please please leave politics to the morons! #47 | Marco Lardelli | Mi 24 April 2024 And start using your own mind now! - A rant in four acts. Boulevard of broken dreams #46 | Marco Lardelli | Di 16 April 2024 Memories of my mother and a short manual for growing dreams Winning the iterated prisoner‘s dilemma with neural networks and the wisdom of Sun Tzu (2) #45 | Marco Lardelli | Mo 15 April 2024 Python code walkthrough Winning the iterated prisoner‘s dilemma with neural networks and the wisdom of Sun Tzu (1) #44 | Marco Lardelli | Mo 01 April 2024 Computer experiments about human cooperation and trust My first encounter with AI #43 | Marco Lardelli | Di 26 März 2024 (and the power of feminine charm) Once helping meant bliss #42 | Marco Lardelli | Di 26 März 2024 The lost pleasure of helping strangers My dream of diving #41 | Marco Lardelli | Fr 22 März 2024 Exploration of the depths Moral: the reason why humankind makes no progress #40 | Marco Lardelli | Fr 23 Februar 2024 Moral is a symptom and not the solution, part 2 My quest for pleasure: unraveling the secrets of heavenly joy - Part 2 #39 | Marco Lardelli | Di 13 Februar 2024 A mathematical discussion of the pleasure formulas My quest for pleasure: unraveling the secrets of heavenly joy - Part 1 #38 | Marco Lardelli | Fr 09 Februar 2024 My hobbyist experiments in „computational quantitative psychology“ Horrible but cute #37 | Marco Lardelli | Do 08 Februar 2024 Moral is a symptom and not the solution Django, unchained: how to create a web application in 5 minutes #36 | Marco Lardelli | Do 08 Februar 2024 Just write your model classes, the Django web framwork will do all the rest for you Women and men think differently #35 | Marco Lardelli | So 10 Dezember 2023 An opportunity, and not a problem! Some common misconceptions about intelligence #34 | Marco Lardelli | Do 23 November 2023 „Old people think slower than young people“ and other fairy stories Performance rankings of large language models without strong LLM reference or human judgments / gold references (3) #33 | Marco Lardelli | Fr 03 November 2023 Part 3: Comparison to human generated rankings How to succeed as an artist #32 | Marco Lardelli | So 22 Oktober 2023 10 (insufficient) rules Letter to Y #31 | Marco Lardelli | Mi 11 Oktober 2023 What I want you to know about drugs Our schools produce nerds, followers and believers (ergo are doing more damage than good). #30 | Marco Lardelli | Sa 30 September 2023 Knowledge without ten times the meta-knowledge is useless and dangerous Musings on my fear of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) #29 | Marco Lardelli | Fr 29 September 2023 Maybe it is better if we lose control over AI soon Performance rankings of large language models without strong LLM reference or human judgments / gold references (2) #28 | Marco Lardelli | Sa 23 September 2023 Part 2: Implementation details and first results Performance rankings of large language models without strong LLM reference or human judgments / gold references (1) #27 | Marco Lardelli | Sa 16 September 2023 Part 1: Problem, current solutions, description of method and its properties Stop fighting enemies and start solving the big puzzle instead! #26 | Marco Lardelli | Mo 15 Mai 2023 Why we should (mostly) ignore politics. The problem of human evil is even more pressing than the problem of evil AI #25 | Marco Lardelli | Di 09 Mai 2023 Why we must use AI to study human nature right now. Teuvo Kohonen’s furry dream #24 | Marco Lardelli | So 09 April 2023 Why every data scientist (and every psychologist) should visit a large dog show. ELLE - A Robot Utopia #23 | Marco Lardelli | So 05 März 2023 A Sci-Fi story about our future with Artificial Intelligence. The only thing humans have, which artificial intelligence will never have #22 | Marco Lardelli | Fr 29 Juli 2022 Can machines make art? The (not so obvious) benefits of artificial superintelligence #21 | Marco Lardelli | Fr 29 Juli 2022 We don’t need to be afraid of A.I. if we are ready for radical change. How technology and competition will enable our enslavement. A warning and an idea for a solution. #20 | Marco Lardelli | Mi 27 Juli 2022 Why we are heading in this direction today and what can we do to avoid such dire fate? Sentient, self aware, conscious, general intelligence, human-like: disentangling A.I. terminology #19 | Marco Lardelli | Mo 25 Juli 2022 What do these terms really mean and how are they related? A short overview. Brief an X #18 | Marco Lardelli | Di 05 Juli 2022 Mein Weg aus der Depression How we won the war against trust #17 | Marco Lardelli | Fr 11 Februar 2022 Why the world is not getting safer if technology makes trusting humans obsolete. We must teach our kids AI now! The why, the what and the how #16 | Marco Lardelli | Di 28 Dezember 2021 AI technology is currently developing at unprecedented speed. This will soon bring enormous economic, social and cultural challenges for society. The „Matrix“ revisited: on the simulation hypothesis #15 | Marco Lardelli | Mi 22 Dezember 2021 According to the simulation hypothesis we might live in a „Matrix“. In this blog post we discuss several variants of implementation. Why ethical AI is nonsense #14 | Marco Lardelli | Di 02 März 2021 We should not try to create gods so that we can remain fools. We should strive instead to improve ourselves. Social media and democracy: Can we learn from machine learning? #13 | Marco Lardelli | Di 17 September 2019 Why is democracy historically so successful? CPU Role Play for Children (teaching computer hardware in primary schools) #12 | Marco Lardelli | Mi 22 Mai 2019 In the last years, a large number of educational toys to teach kids programming and robotics have appeared on the market. While many are great tools to introduce children to computer science, none of them seems to be helpful in explaining the... We should teach children how a smartphone works #11 | Marco Lardelli | Do 11 April 2019 Our smartphones and tablets are ultra complex technical systems, and yet they are very easy to use. Most children get their first smartphone already in primary school. A simple electromechanical robot to teach robotics in primary schools #10 | Marco Lardelli | Di 19 Februar 2019 We have developed a very simple robot which can be used to teach the basic concepts of robotics to kids in primary schools (age 9–11). Data Science Is Not a Black Box, Managers Must Understand It Too #9 | Marco Lardelli | Mo 18 Februar 2019 We are successfully using extremely complex technology every day without understanding it. This approach is successful whenever we are allowed to treat technology as a black box. A small puzzle with three pieces #8 | Marco Lardelli | Mo 31 Dezember 2018 Something to think about... Hurricane Taxation: A blueprint for a better society? #7 | Marco Lardelli | Sa 29 Dezember 2018 Many years ago I spent a few months sailing from island to island in the south pacific. I will never forget what happened on an island of Tarawa when we came back shopping large amounts of food for the next few weeks on sea. „Of Good and Evil“: A Visualizing Game Experience #6 | Marco Lardelli | Di 20 Februar 2018 A little game project (great for a family afternoon on a rainy Sunday) The story of LI54, the ultraintelligent machine who was given the will to live #5 | Marco Lardelli | So 18 Februar 2018 LI54, the first ultraintelligent machine, had just finished a bunch of highly complicated quantum chemical calculations for a new cancer medicine, when she received a new assignment on the input stream: „Make sure you exist forever, whatever it takes“. The teachings of my dog Lister: How technology makes us unhappy #4 | Marco Lardelli | Fr 16 Februar 2018 It happened on a warm summer day somewhere near Zurich Why the creation of human-like A.I. might require godlike powers #3 | Marco Lardelli | Mi 14 Februar 2018 How far away is the creation of human-like A.I.? With “human-like A.I.” I mean artificial intelligence which does not only possess human level intelligence, but also shows human like behavior in a wide range of situations. Beyond Chernoff faces: Multivariate visualization with metaphoric 3D glyphs #2 | Marco Lardelli | Di 25 Juli 2017 Our dream is to understand our high dimensional data from a single image. And this without significant loss, need for hyperparameters and in an intuitive and easy to interpret way. Schizophrenia, Autoencoders and Why You Might Live in a Matrix #1 | Marco Lardelli | Mi 29 März 2017 Some ideas about how psychotic experiences could be explained intuitively using a simple model based on machine learning. „Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in your own way is better than to go right in someone else's.“ - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment © 2017-2024 Marco Lardelli, home page image: ShutterStock / Four Vectorenen1771740721https://lardel.li

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