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Why Criticizing AI Feels Like Criticizing Someone’s Child

I’m not questioning the usefulness of LLMs and AI in general.
What I am questioning is its ability to achieve intelligence.

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From Sophists to Alchemists to AI Coders: The Technique Without Understanding Dr. Marcus Doubtful, former quantum physicist turned philosopher of science. Dr. Andrew Sofist, a computational physicist and AI researcher who has just delivered a triumphant presentation on large la...

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The Code That Could Never Think Dr. William Compute – CTO of a Fortune 100 company Dr. Marcus Doubtful – physicist turned philosopher William: Marcus, with all this talk about Artificial Intelligence, I’ve been rethinking what comp...

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What is life? A debate between two scientists about whether traditional science can truly capture the concept of life.

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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

Do we need to name a new type of bias for this? 👇

"LLMs are okay at coding, but at scale they build jumbled messes. I’ve scaled back my use of AI when coding and gone back to using my brain and pen and paper."

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Understanding the Brain and the limitations of AI. Every year, thousands of bright minds enter neuroscience programs driven by a profound question: How does the brain work? They emerge years later with advanced degrees, sophisticated experimental tech...

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The Alchemist's Equivalence: A Dialogue on AI and the Progress of Knowledge Using AI to Critique AI Here we encounter a delicious irony: I used ChatGPT and Claude to help write a dialogue that questions the very foundations of artificial intelligence. LLMs proved invaluable ...

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Time Flies You check your blog and realize it's been eleven months since your last post—ironically, that post was itself a reassurance that you were still around after a previous silence. Time has a peculiar way...

In that last entry, I mentioned that theoretical Geneosophy was complete and that I had begun developing its first application: the comprehension of a neuron. I was working on a syntax to express impossibilities*—constraints—and building an interpreter in Python ...

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A much needed update The truth is, I've been busy with a significant breakthrough: the first implementation of a Geneosophic expression. Specifically, I've been working on the conceptual expression of a neuron, which can ...

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What is Life? This article suggests that the scientific community is far from reaching a consensus. While I concur with the premise that our current paradigm falls short in answering this question, I part ways wit...

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The temples Science is considered to be at the pinnacle of human achievements, a truth seeking enterprise of rationality and objectivity, based on the scientific method introduced by Galileo. Given the innumerabl...

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Consciousness, the elephant in the room Consciousness is the holy grail of our quest to comprehend who we are. We feel conscious, there is no doubt about it. But understanding consciousness has been outside our reach so far. It is a strange...

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Geneosophy and Bergson's philosophy I find it useful to be able to compare Geneosophy with the thought of other thinkers. It is a bit like being able to discuss with Bergson, at least as close as it gets.

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Manipulation of possibilities I am currently working on Formal Geneosophy, which deals with the practical applications of Theoretical Geneosophy. I was tempted to describe the tools developed within Formal Geneosophy as the Algeb...

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The Curse of Meaning in ChatGPT This is an unusually long post, but also quite interesting in my humble opinion. Given the extraordinary success of large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, how should their capabilities be eva...

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A new conceptual dimension Today, I was having a conversation with one of the individuals I collaborate with on Geneosophy. As is often the case, I asked him if we haven't collectively lost our minds with Geneosophy. This quest...

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