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• Inequality and Hierarchy Are Features of All Natural Systems

  DeDeo and Hobson do a commentary on a model developed by Kawakatsu et al. (open source) that explains the emergence of hierarchy in networked endorsement... Read more

  The 04 november 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Is AI Pushing Us Back to a Pre-Gutenberg Culture? - A Rethink of Creativity in...

  Here I pass on a link to both video and a transcript of a striking Alex Dobrenko interview with Venkatesh Rao that I have just read, and here is ChatGPT’s... Read more

  The 31 october 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Claude Goes to Therapy

  One of the things my father used to say was: "I look to see what everyone else is doing and do something different". I am feeling that way about AI at the same... Read more

  The 29 october 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Age of De-Skilling

  I want to pass on some selected clips from a marvelous articles by Kwame Anthony Appiah in The Atlantic titled "The Age of De-Skilling - Will AI stretch our... Read more

  The 27 october 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Madeleine L'Engle: A New Interest in a Familiar Topic

  

  Until the beginning of last summer my knowledge and interest in Madeleine L'Engle was pretty much just "A Wrinkle in Time" in book form. Read more

  The 27 october 2025 by   Jkinyoun
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• Is the Current AI Frenzy a Bubble Certain to Crash? - a Check in with...

  I am a disagreeable bot. Can you get me to agree with you?The billions of dollars in debt being taken on by OpenAI , Anthropic, and other AI companies is... Read more

  The 22 october 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Illusion of Judgment in LLMs

  An important open source article from Loru et al:SignificanceLarge Language Models (LLMs) are used in evaluative tasks across domains. Read more

  The 21 october 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Lecture 15: Gestaltism III: Experience Error, CNS Error, Psych-neural...

  The two previous lectures reviewed some of the changes happening in related fields to psychology that were showing up in Gestalt psychology, specifically the... Read more

  The 13 october 2025 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Lecture 14: Gestaltism II: Fields, Self-Organization, and the Invariance...

  In the previous Lecture, Turvey discussed the machine metaphor in which things are just equal to the sum of their parts. In this Lecture, Turvey introduces the... Read more

  The 13 october 2025 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Lecture 13: Gestaltism I: Atomism, Anatomism, and Mechanical Order (Turvey, 2019...

  We are nearing the end of the Foundational Concepts section of the book, and we have arrived at one final historical attempts to explain perception; the... Read more

  The 13 october 2025 by   Andrew D Wilson
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