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• Tom Dietrich on the Current Evolution of AI

  Posted in a Substack conversation here: An alternative view of what is happening is that we have been passing through three different phases of LLM-based... Read more

  The 11 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• From Shakespeare to Trump @3QD

  My latest post at 3 Quarks Daily: Shakespeare, the Starry Welkin, and Donald Trump. I’m playing around with the idea that, while we (whoever “we” are) regard... Read more

  The 07 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• This Election is Different

  Ezra Klein, There’s Something Very Different About Harris vs. Trump, NYTimes, Nov. 3, 2024. To Democrats, the institutions that govern American life, though... Read more

  The 03 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Life Inside a Japanese Prison

  

  Witness 91.7 K subscribers What's Life Like Inside A Japanese Prison? | Witness | HD Japan Jail Crime Documentary From the YouTube page: We gained... Read more

  The 02 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• A Girardian Note About Spartacus [Media Notes 140]

  

  I saw Spartacus when it came out in 1960. The movie led me to the book, which I read quickly. I believe I stayed up reading it most of a night, but I don’t... Read more

  The 01 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• A.I. in Hollywood, Wait and See

  Devin Gordon, What if A.I. Is Actually Good for Hollywood? NYTimes Magazine, Nov. 1, 2024. From the middle of the article: Over several months of talking to... Read more

  The 01 november 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• China Viewed from China | Robert Wright & Peter Hessler [US More Militaristic...

  

  Timestamps: 0:00 Peter’s new book, Other Rivers: A Chinese Education 3:00 Have Chinese people become less hostile to America? 12:48 What Americans get wrong... Read more

  The 29 october 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Watching Film Increases Empathic Understanding of Formerly Incarcerated People

  Rebecca Keegan, Can Watching Movies Rewire Your Brain? Hollywood Reporter, October 23, 2024. Five years later, people are climbing into an MRI machine in the... Read more

  The 28 october 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Prospects for Using LLMs in Content Moderation for Social Media

  

  From the YouTube page: Wherein I am joined by the estimable Dave Willner, who helped build the content moderation system at Meta, who talks me through how and... Read more

  The 28 october 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Hossenfelder: Wolfram's Research Program Seems Healthy (after All). Perhaps It...

  

  From the webpage: Mathematician and Computer Scientist Stephen Wolfram wants to do no less than revolutionizing physics. He wants to do it with computer code... Read more

  The 26 october 2024 by   Bbenzon
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