Manolis Kellis
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And the advantage of that is that it might actually teach us something about humans as well.
Like, you know, we might not have words to describe these types of aspects right now,
But when somebody speaks in a particular way, it might remind us of a friend that we know from here and there and there.
And if we had better language for describing that, these concepts might become more apparent in our own human psyche.
And then we might be able to encode them better in machines themselves.
I like the concept that the human mind is somehow tied to ideology.
And I think that goes back to the promptability of Chachiviti.
The fact that you can kind of say, well, think in this particular way now.
And the fact that humans have invented words for encapsulating these types of behaviors.
And it's hard to know how much of that is innate and how much of that was like passed on from language to language.
But basically, if you look at the evolution of language, you can kind of see how young are these words in the history of language evolution that describe these types of behaviors like, you know, kindness and anger and jealousy, et cetera.
If these words are very similar from language to language, it might suggest that
they're very ancient.
If they're very different, it might suggest that this concept may have emerged independently in each different language and so on and so forth.
So looking at the phylogeny, the history, the evolutionary traces of language at the same time as people moving around that we can now trace thanks to genetics,
is a fascinating way of understanding the human psyche and also understanding how these types of behaviors emerge.
And to go back to your idea about exploring the system unfiltered,
I mean, in a way, the psychiatric hospitals are full of those people.
So basically people whose mind is uncontrollable, who have kind of gone adrift in specific locations of their psyche.
And I do find this fascinating.