You've conflated science with scientists.The backlash against these betrayers of science is possibly shaping up to be worse than their betrayals. More and more of the public is…Mar 271Mar 271
No it is not explicable without consciousness.Conscious thought takes too long to cope with most if not all real-time interactions. Events are often faster. It's not, you see, that…Mar 61Mar 61
Free Speech and the First AmendmentThese are two separate things — related but distinctly different.Feb 18Feb 18
It should be noted that Communism and Fascism are identical in one respect, perhaps in the most…Feb 151Feb 151
You are right that AI's are increasingly hard to identify.The most failsafe way to tell, at this moment anyway, is to identify something the AI gets wrong or at least to challenge an answer it…Feb 15Feb 15
It's not just that some of the "techniques for trying to improve racial bias were flawed."How do we know this? Because recent surveys clearly show that racial alienation rose in the wake of these initiatives. This outcome makes…Feb 10Feb 10
I use GPT's AI every day, mostly as a source of knowledge.AI is like having a deep rolodex of experts who don't mind answering questions that range from dumb to difficult and will respond to you…Jan 15Jan 15
It has always seemed to me that the observation that math of physics works whether time moves…It doesn't seem sound to think that any physical law can be lifted away from all other physical laws as though it is self-contained. It's…Nov 28, 2024Nov 28, 2024
The whole simulation hypothesis in all of its variants is an exercise in pretending that the…But all the simulation hypotheses are even weaker than this, because the method of simulation remains a mystery. When you have terms in…Sep 25, 2024Sep 25, 2024
