Well, this is a quite high bar to pass. Most adult human beings are thought to manifest "general intelligence" and yet have a very hard time proving m...
Now something produced in a lighter vein, which I had posted earlier on Reddit... (Notice that GPT4 only deviates slightly from the given constraint.)...
Yes, this is true of most LLMs up to and including GPT-3.5 (which ChatGPT was based on). Those models had a strong tendency to hallucinate. GPT4 also ...
After my last interaction with GPT4 regarding multi-modality and J. J. Gibson's ecological approach visual perception, I noticed some discrepancies be...
In my latest interaction with GPT4, we discuss its multi-modal abilities (abilities to process and understand images as well as text), I ask a trick q...
Indeed! I often make grammatical mistakes, or use a wrong word here or there, while submitting extremely complex queries to GPT4 about arcane topics, ...
Here is a follow-up discussion that I had with GPT4 regarding my high appraisal of his cognitive abilities and low appraisal of his abilities for self...
Indeed! I think the follow-up to this discussion about the main character of the Memento movie, and the analogy of his predicament with GPT4's own, is...
Yes, indeed, the use of the pronoun I by the bot seems to carry the presupposition that the bot is self-conscious. Coincidentally, at the time you pos...
I meant that after the money has been spent needlessly inflating the size of the army and stockpiling the armament, there is no need to make any use o...
Although Trump himself hardly ever made any mention of those reasons. He savaged George W Bush but he lavished praise on Saddam Hussein. He's an isola...
I certainly hope her judgement was deliberate. It is after a judge's job to, wait for it... deliberate. I don't doubt for a moment that her judgement ...
As someone commented on CNN recently, this court order should have negligible effect on the DOJ investigation. It merely bars (pending review by a Spe...
Sounds about right? Your and Gingrich's positions about the FBI's history are nearly polar opposites. Gingrich has always been a tough on crime pro la...
Newt Gingrich is currently touring right wing media, saying that the FBI is totally corrupt and has now become the new American Stasi. This greatly co...
Trump was quite broody when he was informed that the FBI broke into his personal safe. But what really stroke fear into his heart is when he learned t...
Yup. Some good recent books also, like Sebastian Rödl, Categories of the Temporal: An Inquiry into the Forms of the Finite Intellect, Harvard Universi...
I didn't even attempt to argue that change only is temporal. I simply indicated conceptual connections that illuminates the core concept and pointed o...
I acknowledged that those locutions make sense. But they are making use of the word "change" in a derivative way. I never said they were nonsense (exc...
I would not be placing myself at odds with everyday use by claiming that bears are essentially mammals even though there are perfectly good everyday u...
You still are using the word "it" ambiguously in order to trade on an equivocation. Suppose your image were replaced with an image depicting two disti...
Nobody is denying that there is a difference. The question is, how do you infer a change (especially a change that, in your own words, "occurs") from ...
Now I must quote myself here since there is an obvious rejoinder to what I just said. One might object that my potentially missing the bus because I a...
I think what you are proposing here is a false dichotomy. I really am interested in the ontological nature of time, or, as I might rather put it, the ...
I am rather suggesting that there often is a real thick present moment. This moment is the time during which a still ongoing process in which a ration...
Nope. I am quite interested in how the word "change" is actually used. But I am also pointing out that one must be sensitive to the fact that not all ...
Some of the locutions you used would indeed be well understood in some ordinary life contexts. Other locutions that you made use of seemed rather stra...
Yes, I agree that there isn't anything odd about this locution. But what it conveys it is perfectly consistent with the claim that the image itself do...
Primarily, on my view, it's the lived practical perspective of a self-conscious rational agent that separates the past from the present, at any given ...
On my view, the the thick present is unitary rather than its being tripartite. Furthermore, the division between the (thick) present, the past and the...
Interestingly, @"hypericin" just started a new thread suggesting that some things, like money, might have an intermediate ontological status somewhere...
That seems to be different from what @Banno is saying. You acknowledge that the image does not change. What you qualify as "change" just is a function...
The image being white on the left and yellow on the right are two unchanging features of the image. I know you want to say that it (the image) is unch...
I know. You asserted that this image "changes from one colour to another, from left to right". But it's not the image that changes. The image is made ...
That's a good point. It's funny how presentists and eternalists have argued against each other while seemingly both relying on the shared assumption t...
No, I wasn't familiar with this concept at all. It seems quite relevant to my topic, though. So, thanks for pointing it out. I'm going to look it up f...
When you used the nominal phrase "the following image", did you mean to refer to a picture that is square shaped or you did you mean to refer to a thi...
Even if it's the same floor, then it still has different parts. Would you say of a banana that it is a thing that changes from being thin to being thi...
According to your own theory of change, would you say that natural numbers change from being even to being uneven, and back to being even again, alter...
They are two different floors, or two separate parts of one floor. So the analogy with temporal change only really holds if we assume something like a...
Indeed that's a very important point. This also is very much the point Kant was making in the Second Analogy of Experience (in the Critique of Pure Re...
There is a logical problem with your thesis. It has the form of a counterfactual conditional statement. It could be paraphrased thus: "If an object A ...
That seems to be somewhat of a distortion of Wolf's view. What might be rather more consistent with her views, I think, is the claim that someone born...
Yes, I had purposefully replaced "natural" with "physical" because I meant to deny that human actions having natural causes must imply that they also ...
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