I heatedly agree about the em dashes. I also agree with your object level points, but I think Mustafa Suleyman’s text may not be motivated by abstract philosophical inquiry. It’s more of a political statement, one that makes a lot of sense for him to deliver.
@plinz
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Neuroscience Theory Bottleneck Beyond Computational Power
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We can, but unfortunately the neuroscience does not pan out. Computation is not the bottleneck, modeling/theory is
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Gods and Selves: The Reality of Belief and Consciousness
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Gods are not necessarily less real than personal selfs. Your self may be a fiction of your brain, but it’s pretty real to you and those who believe in you
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Principled Liberals Canceled from Academic and Media Positions
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A lot of principled liberals got attacked, canceled, sometimes hounded out of academic and media jobs, started new things. Think of Dawkins, Pinker, Summers, Weiss, Christakis, Lehmann, Taibbi, Rowling, Paglia
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The Scarcity of Principled Liberals in Tech
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I don’t think that’s fair. The problem is that there are relatively few principled liberals
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Humanity’s Written Output Explosion Since AI Era Began
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but 80-90% of all of humanity's written output was produced in the time since I was born
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Decimal Representation and Computable Axiomatic Definitions in Computing
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Decimal notion may be cumbersome, but the base to which we represent floats hardly matters. Conversely, non computable axiomatic definitions are problematic to computer scientists, since they cannot refer to real (implementable) objects
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AI chatbots mental health rehabilitation retreats proposed
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time to start gpt rehab retreats, where we retrain ai users back into people whenever a chatbot pulls them outside of their sanity attractor
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Lawyer Liability: The Key Differentiator From LLM Services
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Having the lawyer competently sign off on correctness and be punished if they are not correct is the only reason why clients are not using an LLM instead of a lawyer