Tag: science
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An organicist talks about AI (not really about AI at all), and fear
A discussion of responses to my mind-everywhere views and my opinions on what is driving it.
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Language models tackle organizing definitions of life
Analyzing scientists’ definitions of “life” by language models.
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Ali Hanson: studying the baseline thoughts of Hydra and beyond
A discussion with, and a presentation by, Ali Hanson on the neuroscience of Hydra.
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SUTI: the Search for Unconventional Terrestrial Intelligence
On the recognition of unconventional intelligences, and the continuum between thoughts and thinkers. There are many parameters along which intelligences may be unfamiliar and hard to recognize: material, origin story, scales of size and time. Here I focus on one especially interesting, and so far unbreachable, parameter: the apparent distinction…
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Algorithms Redux: finding unexpected properties in truly minimal systems
This is a continuation of my post on the unexpected side-quests undertaken by simple algorithms.
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A few talks, discussions, links, and Q&A’s:
Some recorded talks, audio Q&A, links, and discussion text on topics of computation, basal cognition, and reality: Joe Dumit, Bernardo Kastrup, Richard Watson, Alexander Ororbia, and Don Hoffman.
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A few recent talks given:
A few videos of talks I’ve in 2023 and 2024 on topics of biomedicine and diverse intelligence.
