There is an important distinction between my (and possibly yours as well) conception and standard compatibilist stances. According to standard compati...
When you perform an action for good reasons after having correctly deliberated about it, then your performing this action isn't something that "happen...
I think rational agents have the ability to determine, by means of practical deliberation, which one of several alternative possibilities will be real...
Excellent question! I don't believe microphysical determinism to entail universal determinism. Mental events aren't physical events, on my view, even ...
This issue, spelled out in more details in the short essay that you linked to in you OP, is commonly recognized in the literature on free will, determ...
Hebbian mechanisms contribute to explaining how object recognition skills (and reconstructive episodic memory) can be enabled by associative learning....
As a follow-up to the previous non-philosophical interlude, here is an improved aquarium simulation where, among other changes, you can control the mo...
xAI's new Grok 3 model is advertised to have a one-million-token context window. It is also free to use provided only you have an account on X/Twitter...
I'd like to comment but I'm a bit unclear on the nature of the connection that you wish to make between the two issues that you are raising in your OP...
I asked both GPT 4.5 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet what some clever or humorous replies to this question might be. None of their suggested answers were good e...
Non Philosophical Interlude I had Claude 3.7 Sonnet create this neat little React component displaying fish shoaling and schooling behavior. This is t...
OpenAI's new GPT 4.5 model feels to me like the smartest one I've interacted with so far. I was especially impressed with the way it wrapped up all th...
You're quite right. It also occurred to me after I posted that my broad focus on Harris's core theses in The Moral Landscape didn't do justice to the ...
We are indeed in broad agreement. To what extent "science" has any part in it, though, depends how we conceive of science and of its methods. The prob...
That doesn't make you agree with Harris, though, unless, like him, you believe the example of health and scientific medicine suggests that our knowled...
In The Moral Landscape Harris seeks to rationally vindicate a crude form of utilitarian/consequentialist ethics without bothering to make nary any men...
Ball bouncing in freely rotating hexagon — Part 2 Claude 3.7 Sonnet helped me fix some bugs and issues with the React component I had made it code ear...
Claude 3.7 Sonnet's Struggles and Achievements in Writing a Detective Novel—Part 3 USER: No doubt future AI systems will address the limitations of fe...
Follow-up to the previous post. (Note that in this discussion, I accessed GPT-4.5 through the OpenAI Playground API interface and didn't supply any sy...
I made to GPT-4.5 the very same query I had made to GPT-4 nearly two years ago. USER: Hi GPT4.5, Could you write a poem expressing what it feels like ...
OpenAI's Deep Research ('o3') Used to Generate and Essay on Free Will and Determinism Yesterday, I tried OpenAI's new 'Deep research' feature that is ...
After I had made Claude 3.7 Sonnet create a Mandelbrot set explorer, and before I had it create a visual representation of Braess's paradox, I had it ...
Yesterday, I had Claude 3.7 Sonnet generate an artifact to illustrate Braess's Paradox. (This also motivated a test for OpenAI's GPT-4.5 model that wa...
OpenAI released their new GPT-4.5 model today. I tested its intelligence by making it analyse the paradoxical behavior of a springs & ropes mechanical...
— Non-Philosophical Intermission — USER: Hi Claude, Might you be able to create a well optimized React component that displays the Mandelbrot set, wit...
Claude 3.7 Sonnet's Struggles and Achievements in Writing a Detective Novel—Part 2 USER: I've now finished reading your story. I've found a few incons...
Claude 3.7 Sonnet's Struggles and Achievements in Writing a Detective Novel—Part 1 (In the transcript below, I'll only reproduce Claude's "thinking" e...
In this simple Q&R, GPT-4o helps me unpack, and enriches, an intuition regarding the way in which the functions of attention layers, and other compone...
Nice! You prompted me to peruse the SEP entry on eliminative materialism to remind me why (and in what respects) Dennett is indeed an eliminative mate...
This is just one question about the exegesis of old philosophical texts, and another response by GPT-4o that blew my mind. (Have a look at this @"Wayf...
This is a follow-up to my earlier discussion with ChatGPT o1 regarding our characteristically human rational abilities to free ourselves (to some degr...
ChatGPT vs Dawkins on AI Consciousness — Part 1 A friend of mine drew my attention on a conversation Richard Dawkins has had with ChatGPT on the topic...
I've still not prodded Grok 3's ideological leanings, but I seldom do this with any large language model. I'm generally more interested in investigati...
It's because your ability to track your own beliefs, and to detect inconsistencies between them, is greatly diminished when you are asleep and dreamin...
(Follow-up to previous post) I got access to Grok 3 today on my free X (formerly Twitter) account. Here is my first interaction with the new model. I'...
My view is that you are the same person when asleep or awake, but your mental abilities and cognitive processes are very much different. Have you hear...
I still have an X account dating from the time when Twitter was a somewhat decent platform. There was an announcement that Grok 3 is currently rolling...
Getting started on new AI phenomenology experiments—misspellings and sub-token manipulations USER: Hi GPT-4o, I'd like to perform some experiments in ...
Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget, between Kant and B. F. Skinner (and after Ernst Cassirer!) USER: Hi GPT-4o, Was Jean Piaget acquainted with and/or influ...
Google Gemini now has a new memory feature allowing it to refer back to past conversations. It's unfortunately only available to Google One AI Premium...
Maybe. Geoffrey Hinton reasonably fears the risks of rogue autonomous AI agents in the long term. For the short term, he also reasonably fears the del...
LLMs making use of latent cognitive abilities to perform alphabetical sorting tasks, part 3 (Link to part 1) (Link to part 2) Although this is a new c...
Follow-up to the previous conversation: How are LLMs prevented from "overfitting" the training data during their pre-training phase? USER: Thank you! ...
In this conversation with ChatGPT o1, we explore a teleological perspective on how large language models (LLMs) develop emergent semantic and interpre...
Not much either! I only know a bit about current usage owing to being a native speaker. For more arcane questions about philology, I mostly rely on Wi...
That's true. Interestingly, though, in French the four "suits" can be called "enseignes" but are more commonly called "couleurs". Hence, in the contex...
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