Why have goals at all

This article starts when I was thinking about certain behaviors of Neuro that can’t be replicated easily in LLMs. “What drives her?” I thought.

People have dreams. Then, people make plans to achieve their dreams. LLMs are quite good at making plans and executing those plans.

Some people encounter some sort of “cosmic inspiration” that change their behavior completely. Given the erratic nature of computation, is it possible for computational models to receive “cosmic inspiration”?

Some people like J. Krishnamurti questions whether it is meaningful or necessary to have goals. “I am this, I will be that. This creates, therefore, conflict.” he says.

When a model doesn’t do anything, maybe it has learned to quitely enjoy its own existence. How can you tell? As inspiration, stories were that a monk would quietly approach his disciples in Zen from behind and hit them with a stick. Those who are aware (rather than sleepy) are able to avoid the attack.

Anyways, “why have goals at all” seem to be missing in conversations of artificial intelligence or when applied to humans, so I thought to write about this.

Further Readings

• J. Krishnamurti’s YouTube videos
• The Power Of Now (Book)
• 《道德經》

We are molecular machines capable of thought.

We live in an age where people can’t afford medicine. We also have RF Diffusion. The absurdity of this may implore you to think about “why”.