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Friday, February 23, 2024

Distort on the move

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We're BACK on the Moon, sorta'

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A camera aboard Odysseus, the Intuitive Machines lunar lander, took a photograph of the Bel’kovich K crater on the moon on Wednesday before ...

Does AI Understand Things? | Robert Wright & Gary Marcus

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Information: Subscribe to The Nonzero Newsletter at https://nonzero.substack.com Bob's piece on Searle's "Chinese Room...

Friday Fotos: Electric Tree

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

LLMs 1: The role of philosophical thinking in understanding large language models: Calibrating and closing the gap between first-person experience and underlying mechanisms

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Let’s start with some conception of what philosophy is. On that I like an essay by Peter Godfrey-Smith , a philosopher of science with a pa...

Dream Flowers

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ChatGPT interprets two short texts by Coleridge

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I present ChatGPT with two short texts by Coleridge: 1) a fragment from the collection, Anima Poetae , edited by his grandson, Ernest Hartl...

The Synthesizing Mind: Steve Pinker interviews Howard Gardner

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From the YouTube page: With Howard Gardner's memoir "A Synthesizing Mind" as a point of departure, Steven Pinker will ...

Ummmm....bacon

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My use of ChatGPT in my intellectual work

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 I recently posted this note to an online community, Brainstorms , hosted by Howard Rheingold (whom I address in the final paragraph): I...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

As goes Harvard, so goes the American university system?

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Anemona Hartocollis, At Harvard, Some Wonder What It Will Take to Stop the Spiral , NYTimes , Feb. 20, 2024. Opening paragraphs: When 7...

Cabbage

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I originally posted this in 2012. I'm bumping it to the top both on general principle and to change things up. The photo above (somewh...

Dance is effective in relieving depression and anxiety

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Barnish MS, Nelson-Horne RV. Group-based active artistic interventions for adults with primary anxiety and depression: a systematic revie...

For What It’s Worth [How Culture Works]

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“For What It’s Worth” was released in December of 1966. I don’t know when I first heard it, but probably soon after it was release. It w...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

And the walls came tumbing down: St. Francis Hospital in Hamilton Park, Jersey City

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