The generated appearance of a cat is a brush to visually represent the idea of catness
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Generative AI as Tool: Prompt Control Versus Randomness
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Current generative AI is not an artist, it’s a highly powerful brush, distilled from all other brushes it has been trained on. Its content is not the pretty picture, but the prompt and a random number, and it’s limited by the ratio of achievable prompt control to randomness.
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Measuring Economic Value Beyond Monetary Spending
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Academic Integrity and Disciplinary Compromise in Research
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In my interactions about the topic, I found that most academics believe in the integrity of most other academics, which can lead to weird effects when the mainstream of a discipline gets compromised
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Strong Untestable Claims Incompatible Scientific Epistemology
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Making strong untestable claims is incompatible with a scientific epistemology
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Is the World’s Mechanism a Living Organism?
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What does it entail if the mechanism of the world is a living organism, and how do you test for that hypothesis?
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Agentic Software Spirits: Consciousness Without Physical Universe Creation
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These entities exist, in the same way as you and me exist: as agentic software (= spirits) running on brains. But there is no evidence that they existed before Abraham’s brain, so
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E/acc ideology anarcho-capitalist opposition to deceleration
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e/acc does not try to make a rational case for accelerationism, it is (rather unprincipled) anarcho capitalist opposition to decels
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American Needs and Social Wellbeing: Meeting Basic Requirements
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Most Americans want to have good relationships, a good home, good food, good health, safe streets, good neighbors and a good future for their children, but most feel that they don't have these needs covered. I found that most Americans are kind and wish strangers well.
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Tech Platforms Losing Cultural War Over American Values
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Both Silicon Valley and East Coast Media are going to lose the culture war, because neither represents a way of being and living that could work for a majority of Americans, but no other group has platforms that pay for participation in public discourse.