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It’s one of the biggest models publicly available (200 …","tags":["AI","China"],"title":"Learning the Language of Rain"},{"date":"Mar 20, 2023","permalink":"https://blog.eigenform.ai/artificial-intelligences-in-the-guanzi-and-the-han-feizi/","summary":" One of the fundamental differences between Confucian and Daoist thought lies in their differing …","tags":["AI","China"],"title":"Artificial Intelligences in the Guanzi and the Han Feizi"},{"date":"Apr 04, 2022","permalink":"https://blog.eigenform.ai/fan-jus-revenge/","summary":" A while back, I wrote a Twitter thread suggesting that the author of “Speaking to the King in …","tags":["China","History"],"title":"Fan Ju's Revenge "},{"date":"Mar 28, 2022","permalink":"https://blog.eigenform.ai/cryptographic-biorhythms/","summary":" “Can you de-trend crypto data?” “?” “I don’t mean ‘Are you personally capable of it?’ I mean ‘Is it …","tags":["Cryptography","Complexity Theory"],"title":"Cryptographic Biorhythms"},{"date":"Oct 01, 2021","permalink":"https://blog.eigenform.ai/procedural-models-of-political-order/","summary":" The point of a model is not to replicate real-world phenomena; it is to identify which inputs are …","tags":["Political Theory","China"],"title":"Procedural Models of Political Order"},{"date":"Feb 22, 2021","permalink":"https://blog.eigenform.ai/someone-spoke-to-the-king-in-zheng-using-high-tech-methods-to-solve-an-ancient-chinese-mystery/","summary":" This story begins with an ending.\nThe Han Feizi is a compendium of essays about the bloodthirsty …","tags":["China","History"],"title":"“Someone spoke to the King in Zheng”: using high tech methods to solve an ancient Chinese mystery"},{"date":"Jun 04, 2020","permalink":"https://blog.eigenform.ai/a-system-for-evolving-a-generalising-artificial-intelligence-from-existing-technologies/","summary":" 28th January 2025: This system is currently under experimental training, and is periodically …","tags":["AI","Complexity Theory"],"title":"A System for Evolving A Generalising Artificial Intelligence from Existing Technologies"},{"date":"Jun 04, 2020","permalink":"https://blog.eigenform.ai/why-it-is-impossible-to-program-a-general-ai-using-conventional-methods/","summary":" Assume a system that uses instructions (rules or sets of rules) to transform inputs into outputs. …","tags":["AI","Complexity Theory"],"title":"Why it is Impossible to Program a General AI Using Conventional Methods"}]