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• Responding to NDE Skeptics

  

  Introduction The term Near Death Experience (NDE) was first proposed by Dr. Raymond Moody in Life After Life. It relates to an event occurring in three... Read more

  The 01 October 2023 by   Stuart_gray
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• Responding to Jehovah’s Witness Anti-Trinitarian Theology

  

  by Stuart Gray Introducing the Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW) Former evangelical Charles Taze Russell founded the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society in 1880, and his... Read more

  The 06 October 2023 by   Stuart_gray
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• Review: The Exorcist: Believer

  

  by Stuart Gray (Some spoilers) I am wondering whether David Gordon Green and Peter Sattler understood the subject matter before sitting down to write “The... Read more

  The 07 October 2023 by   Stuart_gray
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• ChatGPT Tells 20 Versions of Its Prototypical Story, with a Short Note on Method

  

  New working paper. Title above, links, abstract, and introduction below. Academia.edu:... Read more

  The 14 October 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• GPT-3 Has Rendered Alan Turing 1950 Obsolete. We Need to Enter a World He Could...

  

  And by that I do not mean that GPT-3 has made the so-called Turing Test – which Turing called the Imitation Game (Computing Machinery and Intelligence, 1950) –... Read more

  The 14 October 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• Mapping ChatGPT’s Ontological Landscape, Gradients and Choices [interpretability]

  

  By ontological landscape I mean the repertoire of different things it knows about. The parlor game, Twenty questions, was invented in the United States in the... Read more

  The 15 October 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• ChatGPT Plays 20 Questions [sometimes Needs Help]

  

  One of the questions that keeps coming up about LLMs, and certainly about ChatGPT, is: Can they reason? Well, it depends on what you mean by reason, no? Read more

  The 17 October 2023 by   Bbenzon
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• What’s Going On? Antisemitism is Breaking out All Over. Why?

  

  The ostensible reason is Israel’s retaliation for Hamas’ Oct. 4 assault. I wonder, though. I suspect something more complex is going on. This is from today’s... Read more

  The 29 October 2023 by   Bbenzon
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