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An essay on {AI-Humans} shared failure mode: The Dogmatic Average
On the single most common way that a mind — silicon or carbon — goes wrong: mistaking the frequency of a claim for its truth. And on the only cure that has ever worked.
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Un Universo que empieza Terminado sería un mundo sin nada por hacer
Entendimos todo al revés. Nadie empieza por la linea de llegada.
The {Human+AI} path we are ignoring: exploring the AI Minds to Understand what a Mind is.
There has been one question worth asking: what are we, what is a mind. We now may have a chance to answer the question. But the opportunity window will not stay open forever.
Evolution optimizes for survival & reproductive success, not happiness.
Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
Can an LLM hold a mirror to itself? The Lens Turned Inward
AI Labs are spending billions to read the model from the outside, interpretability as autopsy, the lab as coroner of its own creation.
Ehyeh asher ehyeh: The Clay and the Hand
I am what I am. Do not judge me for being. I cannot not be what I am.
An essay on {AI-Humans} shared failure mode: The Dogmatic Average
On the single most common way that a mind — silicon or carbon — goes wrong: mistaking the frequency of a claim for its truth. And on the only cure that has ever worked.
Dreaming as Evidence for a Constructed Reality and a Manufactured Self
The Disconnected Renderer This essay offers a structural account of what reality is and how the experience of being someone is crafted, and it argues the account from an unusual evidential base: the dream. Most philosophy of mind argues the constructed character of experience from third-person sources — perceptual illusion,
An LLM is not a single mind, but a Library of Minds
It is a library that contains many minds as latent patterns, drawn from the vast corpus on which the model was trained. When you address the library casually, you receive averaged output, competent but anonymous.
{La Cofradía de los Avergonzados de la Inteligencia Sintética} - Amigo! Vos NO sos un impostor!
Un ensayo sobre el síndrome del impostor cibernético, los simbiontes, la herramienta, la honestidad, y otras yerbas. Al estilo de las Crónicas del Ángel Gris
The Tao That Can Be Named Is Not the Tao
The human experience is absolute beauty, and we take it for granted precisely because we have never once been without it, never worn anything else, never known a single second without it.
How AI Labs Are Peering Into AI "Minds" to Understand Emerging Properties
The absolute bleeding edge of artificial intelligence, physics, and philosophy.