Pierre-Normand

Yes, that would be an odd thing to say. But I am not saying that. I am stressing a distinction between two levels of description rather akin to distin...

Yes, it is true that the training process, and its underlying algorithm, based on the next-token prediction paradigm, is dumb and unintelligent. And t...

In the following experiment I am probing Claude 3's ability to translate texts written in obscure languages. https://i.imgur.com/GGcAMlQ.jpeg

Well, they can solve problems, and do so intelligently. For instance, models like Claude 3 can read the unannotated code of an application, find out o...

(@"Wayfarer" who may find the topic interesting) Here is an excerpt from an ongoing discussion I am having with Claude 3 Opus about the ontology of qu...

Oh I see! I had indeed missed the broader context. I'll try to pay closer attention to it in the future. Thanks for clarifying!

Don't you mean to say "that everything physical also is psychical"? What I remember from The Conscious Mind is that Chalmers thought that there could ...

Have you also read A Deepness in the Sky? I had greatly enjoyed A Fire Upon the Deep and then I had enjoyed A Deepness in the Sky even more. Now that ...

I just now got a chance to give a try to Gemini 1.5 Pro, using a VPN since I'm in Canada where the access Google AI Studio is restricted. I used the s...

@"jkop" had drawn my attention to Searle's book Seeing Things as They Are: A Theory of Perception, OUP (2015) when we were discussing disjunctivism ea...

You are aware Claude 3, not me, made those suggestions, right? By the way, the idea of objects presenting themselves to the subject in perception rath...

All three models can handle 200k tokens context windows. However, each new question/response cycle implies feeding the whole context anew to the model...

Thanks for catching that! That was indeed Sonnet, who I had regenerate its response three times. This misattribution is now fixed.

This is a sort of epilogue or postscript following the experiment reported in the previous post. In order to rein in the costs of the API calls (espec...

Indeed! Although your detractors may rather feel vindicated in their intuition that you are a bot ;-) My own view is that when considering the low-lev...

@"AmadeusD" Notice also that the comments addressed to you by Claude 3 Opus and then Claude 3 Sonnet were meant as supplementary food for thought. The...

Thank you for pointing that out. I wondered if Claude 3 might have been hallucinating or had misattributed things so I asked for clarification. The qu...

Here is the missing context from my earlier post in the thread Indirect Realism and Direct Realism System Prompt: You are Claude 3, a large language m...

I didn't intentionally steer it in either direction although the lists of philosophers (plus one psychologist) that we proposed in the beginning were ...

I haven't found the time to participate in this thread although the topic is of interest to me. However, I thought it would be a good opportunity to m...

It's not available through the regular subscription service here in Canada either. You can likely request API access, though, and pay as you go. You c...

This was extracted from the answer given by Claude 2.1. This model is generally considered much inferior in raw reasoning ability to GPT-4, although i...

This is the continuation of the previous post about the chess abilities of Claude 3 Opus and its unreflexive/reflexive cognitive abilities. USER: We'v...

In this experiment I am testing the limited chess playing abilities of Claude 3 Opus (tricking it and its opponent GPT-4 into completing a fake PGN ga...

Has she read "The Concept of Mind"? Yes, there may be a ghost inside of that machine. Gilbert Ryle meant to use this phrase disparagingly to dispel th...

I have repeated the experiment that I had performed with Claude 3 Haiku, related in the previous two posts, this time with Claude 3 Opus. The outcome ...

(Continuation from previous post) ASSISTANT: Thank you for sharing these two fascinating images. The first image depicts a serene and lush forest land...

This is my first extended conversation with Claude 3 Haiku, the smallest, fastest and cheapest Anthropic model in the Claude 3 family. The model is cl...

This new discussion with Claude 3 Opus begins with the topic of dreams and of their phenomenology, and how that may relate to LLM (large language mode...

Part 3/3 (see previous two posts) USER: Thank you! Of course, my pragmatist approach in epistemology isn't something I came up on my own. I relied hea...

Part 2/3 (see previous post) USER: Thank you. Here is now the conversation that we had had earlier about Kim's argument and how it bears on the topic ...

Here I am having a discussion about epistemology with Claude 3. The main topic is the postscript in the fourth edition of the book What is this thing ...

Right. Furthermore, it's not the case in general that disjunctists deny that hallucinations and veridical experiences have anything metaphysically in ...

Three Language Models Walk into a Bar and have a Discussion about Artificial Mindedness This is the beginning of a four-way conversation I am having s...

I hadn't read the book by Searle ("Seeing Things as they Are") that Claude 3 mentions but I just downloaded a digital copy and perused it a bit. He se...

In this (still ongoing) conversation I discuss with Claude 3 Opus some of my ideas regarding the problem of free-will determinism and responsibility, ...

Thanks you @"jkop" for sharing this exchange. Yes, GPT 3.5 is very prone to hallucination and generally displays a poor understanding of scientificall...

Discussing disjunctivism with Claude 2.1, Claude 3 Sonnet and Claude 3 Opus My discussion with Claude 2.1 reveals this oder model's limited understand...

Discussing Wittgenstein, Michael Dummett, P. G. Wodehouse and a joke about speaking Spanish with Gemini Ultra: PN: Hi Gemini! As I was driving back ho...

Your formulation is indeed a misstatement of the concept of supervenience, as Sophisticat pointed out. A paradigmatic case of supervenience is the rel...

Here is my very first interaction with Google's new "Gemini Advanced" (or "Ultra") model. It seems fairly decent! PN: Hi Genini!(sic) I'd like chat wi...

That wouldn't work since this has the dimensions of squared meters per seconds and we want something that has the dimensions of seconds. To arrive at ...

In this case, you're using the camera to register the events as they occur relative to the moving reference frame (i.e., the inertial frame in which t...

Your thinking was correct, but since both the forward and the return path are travelled by the light pulse at the same speed c (in any referential fra...

No, since vt is the distance travelled by the mirror during the forward path while vt_2 is the distance travelled by the source during the return path...

Yours is an equally valid way to calculate the time required for the pulse to reach the mirror. Mine is only slightly simpler since we don't first nee...

Yes, you're right that the Lorentz contraction of the path must also be taken into account. The Lorentz factor, gamma, is always greater than 1, so th...

From the standpoint of the external observer ("stationary" reference frame) the emitted light has to catch up with the receding mirror. On the return ...

Are you suggesting that one new clone is always created, but the coin flip determines on which day? Furthermore, are Sleeping Beauty and her clones on...

Thirders wouldn't change their bet in this scenario. Although it's true that in this setup, a bettor aware of P("6") = 6/11 (i.e., the proportion of "...