Pierre-Normand

You can think of prospective habits as being shaped by past significant encounters with the environment, imbuing them with intrinsic significance. The...

@"Wayfarer" I was continuing the conversation with Claude 4.5 Sonnet that I PM’d you about and that's closely tied to your OP. We wandered into the us...

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That's quite funny! My diagnosis: Claude 3.5 Sonnet was being funny on purpose. But notice the framing: "Some of the other models recognized that bein...

It’s more like saying that giving financial help to homeless addicts might lead them to buy more drugs, and concluding, therefore, that we shouldn’t j...

That’s a bit like saying the reason you can’t put out the fire in your kitchen is that, without fire, you wouldn’t have a stove.

If you really think about it, either from a global or from a U.S.- or Western-centric perspective, the problem that this chart highlights appears to s...

That seems to miss Hayhoe’s excellent point. It’s like saying that, in case our heroic efforts to prevent a global nuclear Armageddon should fail, we ...

You make several good points about the functional role of memory systems in embodied human learners. Most of those features have no equivalent in pre-...

The only information she makes use of about the run she's in is that the fair coin decided it. It's the exact same information that she's also making ...

Meanwhile Bill Gates shifted his position from advocating for climate change mitigation to focusing more on improving human welfare. Katharine Hayhoe,...

@"RogueAI" As an addendum to my previous post, which may be worth posting separately, there may be fruitful intellectual collaboration with a LLM-base...

I agree. It's like asking if there is something it's like being the interaction between you and your romantic partner, say. That doesn't make sense. T...

I was a bit astonished to see your comment pop up just now in this thread just as I was circling back to this topic in a very long conversation with C...

Thanks for the tempered reply, @"JeffJo". I appreciate the reset. Let me try to restate where I think we converge, then where we part… In my view, whe...

Totally agreed. Sir Isaac would have put Dr. Susan Calvin on the case pronto... Though I was currently thinking about the significance of the LLM's ig...

I don't really see any clear evidence of overriding rather than externally induced reframing. I had provided a link to the Anthropic study in my earli...

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I'd wager Hinton has thought about this more than I have, and has likely read more about such concerns in the alignment literature. It's clearly a rea...

I think the first route is the most practical and also the one that is the most likely to be taken, if it is. But while I think we could create somewh...

You're misreading me. I was merely saying (clarifying for apo) that no mysterious emergence process had to be invoked to account for the abilities tha...

I'm with you. Whenever I mention emergent properties of LLMs, it's never part of an argument that the phenomenon is real as contrasted with it being m...

I genuinely don't know and that might be kind of indeterminate due to methodological leeway in setting up controls for a test. (e.g. are testers meant...

In my earliest conversations with GPT-4, I likened its condition to the Leonard Shelby character in Nolan's Memento movie who suffered from anterograd...

I feel you. If you’ll allow me to digress again from our current sub-thread, though not from this thread's OP, I would like to offer a reflection on e...

I don't see any questionable appeal to the principle of indifference being made in the standard Thirder arguments (though JeffJo may be making a redun...

30 years ago! Gee... I was then still a babbling a blubbering 27-year-old physics student enthralled by a scientistic and reductionistic world view. M...

Agreed, which is why I was stressing that it was apparently starting from a blank slate, and that this was a paradox. And indeed Wittgenstein's consid...

That's quite fascinating. One Caribbean student in a philosophy course I took was working on a thesis (and doing some field research) on illiterate an...

So, maybe it's not ritualistic, indeed. But by "socially instituted" I didn't mean that their function was socially mandated (that is, that the painte...

I understand your picture better now, and agree with most of it. I view the irreducible normativity of reason to be freedom-conferring, but my view of...

It seems to me to be a stretch to call cave art and stone monuments writing systems. But even if we grant them the significance of proto-writing syste...

This picture is quite close, differing mainly in emphases, from one I had developed in a paper titled Autonomy, Consequences and Teleology that I wrot...

There was a question about grokking that had bothered me for a long time. ("In machine learning (ML), grokking, or delayed generalization, is a phenom...

These need not be mutually exclusive propositions. The categorical change I'm pointing to occurred between recurrent networks and transformer-based LL...

All right. No worries. Looking back I saw your latest response to me that I had let slipped through. I'll come back to it.

Ah, sorry, I had missed that. Had you made this issue bear on the topic of the present thread? (I don't mind anyone exploring tangents, but I'm just c...

I've made quite a few points that you've never acknowledged, some of them in responses to questions of yours that I responded to more than once. But s...

Exactly. I seem to remember he also argued that if one were truly a relativist, then each community would have their own norms/truths and there would ...

Very true! I remember this discussion. I greatly enjoyed it. If you allow me to make a meta-philosophical remark: Scientific debates that don't end in...

My own concern is primarily to avoid collapsing the norms of rationality into generalized norms of biology, especially the norms of practical rational...

You might find interest in his quarrel with Putnam who was competing with him about the proper way to re-appropriate the American pragmatist tradition...

If only Peterson really strove to re-enchant the world. Most of the times I've heard him he was striving to re-lobster the (young male) human conditio...

This was addressed at Hanover but it applies to me. Guilty as charged. GPT-5 drew the point home when I discussed the issue with it. Reading its respo...

Point well taken about the lack of addition of value. But I meant the value to reside in my own initial statement (which was accommodating of your vie...

The spirit of their enterprises may be at odds while their contributions aren't. Here is how I put it in a query to GPT-5 about your last response to ...

Before you began taking notes, you spent a couple years learning how to read and write, using a writing systems that piggybacks on spoken language. Bo...

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@"apokirisis" Addendum to my previous post, posted separately due to post size limitations. (Rereading GPT-5's initial response quoted in my previous ...

:up: Excellent post that I enjoyed from start to finish. I'll only quote some salient points one at a time (and as needed). My comment, that you just ...