Pierre-Normand

You just said moments ago that 'here is no general will, and thus no Sovereign. In practice the “general will” always turns out to be the will of some...

He can point to his glistening orange nose as proof that he has been personally granted The Seal of Unlimited Imperial Powers.

It's not Musk's office either. And he doesn't even work there.

Ed Martin, the Trump appointed interim U.S. attorney in Washington, after hearing that some bureaucrats were allegedly resisting Musk and his tools, w...

Yup, it was the wrong thread, and wrong Chrome tab. I saw President Musk's Address to the Nation in the Oval Office today. VP Trump was listening very...

As my attention was drawn to the fascinating paper The Geometry of Categorical and Hierarchical Concepts in Large Language Models, I was a bit surpris...

No, it was actually me. (Just kidding, Bentham was doing this also.)

Some more Investigations into LLM Hallucinations and their Phenomenal Character (I am asking the same questions to ChatGPT o1 (the "thinking" model) a...

You can't give the whole credit for you own beliefs, aims and reasons to your physical circumstances since all three of those things are normative. If...

The two alternative that you are considering, one that seems to leave open alternative opportunities for choice, and the other one that portrays those...

The last part of the conversation posted above ended with GPT-4o asking: "I suspect your next step might be to **explore whether AI conative autonomy ...

Rosenblatt and his Critics ; What they got Right and What they got Wrong—Part 3b USER: Regarding your first suggested next step, my present conception...

Rosenblatt and his Critics ; What they got Right and What they got Wrong—Part 3a Note: In this third part of the conversation, we take a step back to ...

And/or leave the Earth behind altogether. Musk's plan for Mars is eerily similar in its rationale to Hugo Drax's plan in Moonraker. They're also both ...

Rosenblatt and his Critics ; What they got Right and What they got Wrong—Part 2 USER: I had listened to a talk by Hinton, recently, where he was mainl...

Rosenblatt and his Critics ; What they got Right and What they got Wrong—Part 1 Where we discuss perceptrons vs transformers; Rosenblatt vs Minksy&Pap...

Trump also saw the rubble pile 60,000 Palestinian civilians have been burred under. Did he cheer this act of Divine retribution as much as he had chee...

Nice! I never went, but I visited the Hogwarts Library. Similar vibe.

In 2024, Canada made up just 0.2% of U.S. border fentanyl seizures. Trump's second biggest complaint is that Canada is ripping the U.S. off... by sell...

To be fair, the Orange Menace also clarified that big beautiful towns will be built to accommodate the Palestinians, thereby removing any incentive fo...

The Stable Genius argues that the Palestinians are very happy to leave since nobody wants to live in a pile of rubble. Obviously, the Israelis can't p...

He also doesn't have a clue what trade deficits mean. He believes that when Country A buys less stuff from County B than the reverse, this is a clear ...

This is understandable. Wolves who weren't riled up when monkeys were chewing on their ears likely had fewer offspring than those who were.

Awesome conversation! Using models like GPT-4o for philosophical inquiries is like stepping into the old Bodleian Library. You can find that one dusty...

...and to his substance providers.

Do LLM-based AI assistants feel intellectual enjoyment? - Part 2 Pursuing my conversation with Claude, I am now beginning to consolidate some ideas I'...

This seems to me the main worry being expressed by Jeoffrey Hinton and a few of his colleagues also. It is a worry understandably shared by many of th...

Yes, that's quite right. I should have mentioned the gig economy rather than referring to Graeber's bullshit jobs. This was closer to my intention whe...

Do we want AI conversational assistants that are capable of independent thought or not? USER: Hi GPT o1, Moments ago, I was watching a YouTube video c...

And then Trump will honor his promise to deport families together, and deport Kash alongside his undocumented 4th cousin twice removed.

I think that's a very good point! However, even if society can somehow resist the natural (albeit misguided) appeal that consumers and businesses will...

There also exists an opposite bias: anthropocentrism. My attention was drawn to this recent paper when it came out but I haven't read it yet. Here is ...

Reflections on native image generations by multimodal language models—Part 1 USER: Hi ChatGPT o1, I'd like to have a discussion with you about multimo...

I tend to agree. The use of the specific term 'AGI' is fairly recent. Here is a nice overview of the history of the term written by an early adopter. ...

Thanks, but I also feared discussions about this nerdy bloke, Wittgenstein, might bore you :wink:

This is indeed something I wholeheartedly agree with. There is no "raw" empirically given data figuring in the phenomenological experience of humans, ...

That was my thought also. But it also seems likely that some of the jokes ChatGPT (which model?) attributed to Wittgenstein may have been made up. Ope...

This is a follow-up to my conversation with ChatGPT o1 about humor and laughter, that I had posted a link to in my previous post. ChatGPT o1 not only ...

ChatGPT o1 again greatly impresses me, and blew DeepSeek R1 out of the water, in helping me unpack my conjecture about the poor performances LLM-based...

@"Wayfarer" my favorite Wittgenstein produced joke comes from Culture and Value: "When I came home I expected a surprise and there was no surprise for...

This is a follow-up to my previous post regarding AI and humor. Maybe I was too harsh is saying that DeepSeek R1 had been blown out of the water (by C...

ChatGPT o1 again greatly impresses me, and blew DeepSeek R1 out of the water, in helping me unpack my conjecture about the poor performances LLM-based...

This is a follow-up to my discussion reported above about the perceived affordances of animals and humans, and their "ecological scaffolds". I came to...

"Can you make sense of the idea that just occurred to me: that humans' rational abilities enable them to free themselves (to some degree) of the norma...

I don't recall Marcus discussing the special case of non-rational animal cognition and how (non-rational or proto-rational) mental causation might con...

After performing my two previous experiments about 'anhropohylism' and the complex 'Einstein puzzle', testing the new ChatGPT o3-mini and CahtGPT o3-m...

This is the general nature of affordances, for non-rational (or proto-rational) animals or humans. They structure our perceptual worlds but aren't alw...

Marshmallow Mistery (Follow-up to previous post) It's quite interesting that although the system prompt provided by OpenAI likely instructs the model ...

In the early days of this thread, I had tried to get GPT-4 to solve a rather convoluted 'Einstein puzzle'. It was thinking very smartly about it but o...