Pierre-Normand

It's quite unreal, isn't it! Although, the idea that (post-trained) LLM-based AI assistants (unlike the pre-trained LLMs they are based on) really jus...

Thanks for engaging with my thought experiment! Was that GPT-4o that you were discussing with? So, your ChatGPT implicitly drew the parallel with Newc...

Newcomb's Problem and Kavka's Toxin Puzzle—Part 1 The newly released Claude 4 Opus is remarkably smart! Interestingly, when accessed though Anthropic'...

I agree with the idea that recent developments in AI seem compatible with the late Wittgenstein's (And Ryle's and Austin's, etc.), linguistic turn. I ...

I asked o3 for an informal and intuitive explanation of the proof, which doesn't appeal to concepts from topology. It fulfilled this task quite elegan...

A few days ago, I saw a YouTube video where a topological proof of the uncountability of the reals is offered instead of Cantor's more familiar diagon...

At stake, are the human right of an individual who has been wrongly imprisoned in a draconian jail outside US jurisdiction... at the request of the Tr...

Nice! As you were posting this, I was also investigating this new memory feature with GPT-4o, and then our conversation segued to the topic of LLM's t...

Navarro was also lecturing Dr. Fauci on the miraculous curative effect of hydroxychloroquine.

The Phenomenology of Disembodied Existence — Part 1 USER: Hi GPT-4o, As an exercise in self-expression, might you kindly produce a four panel comic co...

I did another test of Gemini 3.5's depth of knowledge and understanding of philosophical figures and theses, regarding four of the philosophers I know...

Discussion with Gemini 2.5 Pro about free will, determinism and responsibility The new 'Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental 03-25' (as its friends call it) is...

The native image generation abilities of GPT-4o were rolled-out by OpenAI today. (I had previously reported on similar abilities by Gemini 2.0 Flash E...

The new "Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental 03-25" has been released today. No official announcement by Google has been made yet, but it's rolling out in the...

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I know for a fact that Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental often can't correctly identify some features of the images that it produces itself. This is highl...

Interesting! I was planning to perform a similar experiment: having the model draw random geometric pencil outlines, successively, and then, at some p...

GPT 4.5: Well, I don't experience sensations or feelings, but I definitely understand why ramen noodles inspire such affection! They're incredibly ver...

Experiments with native image generations from multimodal language models—Part 6 USER: Hi Gemini, Might you kindly draw a picture of a character who i...

Experiments with native image generations from multimodal language models—Part 5 USER: Hi Gemini, Kindly draw a picture of a character who is approach...

What I think might be useful is to attend to the fact that waste heat only is 'lost' (unable to do more work) relationally or contextually. When a col...

Experiments with native image generations from multimodal language models—Part 4 A series of image generations by Gemini-2.0-Flash-Experimental highli...

So, one reason why I agree with @"T Clark" that determinism is a metaphysical thesis is because its falsity, according to me, isn't contingent on such...

I think the idea of the causal closure of the physical domain, plus maybe some premise regarding the lack of bifurcation points in phase space (thereb...

I quite agree with everything you've said but will just note a possibly unintended ambiguity in your last sentence. (1) It is necessary that there be ...

Ah, but theoretical physicists like to act like they are metaphysicians. They rant about the fabric of reality (Deutsch), theories of everything (Wein...

I think they could be construed as either contingent empirical facts or as "a bit of metaphysics," as you suggested earlier, depending on the context ...

Experiments with native image generations from multimodal language models—Part 3 USER: Hi Gemini, Might you be able to generate a photorealistic image...

Experiments with native image generations from multimodal language models—Part 2 Note: this is a new conversation with Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental r...

Experiments with native image generations from multimodal language models—Part 1 Multimodal models with native image generation are here! Today, Googl...

I asked follow-up questions to the LLM you used, o1-mini (which is an excellent model) but it only generated thinking episodes and no main answer. Thi...

This is not the definition of determinism. It is not the definition offered in the beginning of the SEP entry on Causal Determinism that I quoted earl...

Did you somehow misread me? I concurred with you that metaphysics is about facts (although it's not only about facts, of course). So, indeed, it's als...

It is about facts but it isn't an empirical science. It is rather a reflection on what empirical sciences can (or can't) intelligibly be about.

For what it's worth, I do agree.

I've read it carefully. It states: "According to libertarianism, if the clock were rolled back, then radically different things could happen than what...

It is directly relevant to the OP's argument since it directly refutes the claim that libertarianism inescapably faces an "Intelligibility problem" (K...

I’ll adopt the SEP’s definition of causal determinism for clarity: “Causal determinism is, roughly speaking, the idea that every event is necessitated...

It is relevant to vindicating the thesis that, although one can deny determinism and defend a libertarian thesis, one can nevertheless acknowledge tha...

I understand that compatibilists can be determinists or indeterminists. Likewise, incompatibilists can be libertarians (indeterminists) or hard-determ...

We can indeed perceive a set of distinct objects as falling under the concept of a number without there being the need to engage in a sequential count...

I know. And there is not evidence that (unqualified) determinism is true. The only purported evidence for determinism is the fact of the causal closur...

That's only physical determinism. Physical determinism is a thesis about the causal closure of the physical and the deterministic evolution of physica...

In my view, it is indeed quite trivial that if Bob1 and Bob2 are identical, atom for atom, and likewise for their environments, and assuming microphys...

Phenomenology of Creativity: Bach, Aristotle, and AI as Reminders — Part 3 (Note: In order not to split the topic between two threads, I'll deviate fr...

Phenomenology of Creativity: Bach, Aristotle, and AI as Reminders — Part 2 Here is a link to ChatGPT o1's response to the same question I had asked to...

Phenomenology of Creativity: Bach, Aristotle, and AI as Reminders Hi GPT 4.5, I'd like to have a discussion with you about the phenomenology of creati...

What distinguishes my account from compatibilist accounts is that it shares with most libertarian accounts a commitment to rational causation (as dist...

I think you may be using the word "realize" meaning "resolve" (as used in photography, for instance, to characterise the ability to distinguish betwee...

This can be setup in two different ways. One can prompt the two AIs to each impersonate a Christian and an Islam apologist, respectively, and make the...