Bbenzon
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Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. Intellectually, I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
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New Savanna
http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/
Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 7824 )
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Of Pumpkins, the Falcon Heavy, and Groucho Marx: High Level Discourse Structure...
Kevin Roose’s New York Times article, The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT, included an example in which Keith Wynroe prompted ChatGPT to explain AI Alignmen... Read more
Posted on 08 December 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Ian Bogost on ChatGPT: “Treat It Like a Toy, Not a Tool.”
Brooks Riley just hipped me [whoa! I’m dating myself, aren’t I?] to a good article about Chat by Ian Bogost: ChatGPT Is Dumber Than You Think, The Atlantic,... Read more
Posted on 08 December 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Extra! Extra! In a Discussion About Astro Boy, ChatGPT Defends the Rights of...
You should read this in conjunction with a post I wrote some years ago: The Robot as Subaltern: Tezuka's Mighty Atom. As you may know, Mighty Atom, known as... Read more
Posted on 08 December 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
ChatGPT: "An Error Occurred. If This Issue Persists..."
I’ve been spending a fair amount of time playing with ChatGPT over the last couple of days. Most of the time it responds to a prompt instantly or very quickly.... Read more
Posted on 07 December 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Bells
Posted on 06 December 2022
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Using One LLM to Vet the Work of Another: Countering GPT Jailbreaking
There’s an interesting post at LessWrong by Stuart Armstrong and rgorman, Using GPT-Eliezer against ChatGPT Jailbreaking. The opening paragraphs (without... Read more
Posted on 06 December 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
ChatGPT Talks About Trumpeters
My main ax, a Calicchio Solo Copper I play trumpet, so I decided to chat with ChatGPT about it. Here’s our first dialog: Tell me about brass instruments. Read more
Posted on 06 December 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
ChatGPT on Spielberg’s A.I., Attachmnt Theory, and AI Alignment
Cross-posted at LessWrong. A remark by MarcusOfCitium over at Astral Codex Ten prompted me to think about the relationship between John Bowlby’s concept of... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Balloons Going out to Sea
Posted on 05 December 2022
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ChatGPT Goes to the Movies, Jaws and Girard @3QD
My latest post at 3 Quarks Daily is now up: Conversing with ChatGPT about Jaws, Mimetic Desire, and Sacrifice Working on it was a blast, but also, you know,... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How ChatGPT Parodied “Kubla Khan” and Pwned DJT45 at the Same Time
Prelude Man, if you can’t have more fun than a barrel of monkeys while playing with ChatGPT, then you aren’t human. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think ChatGPT... Read more
Posted on 04 December 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Sunrise Serenade (from June)
Posted on 03 December 2022
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Screaming on the Flat Part of the Roller Coaster Ride: From GPT-3 to ChatGPT
Back in May of 2021 I did a blog post in which I asked GPT-3 to analyze a Jerry Seinfeld bit. OpenAI has now released a somewhat updated version, ChatGPT. I... Read more
Posted on 03 December 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Branches and Sky
Posted on 30 November 2022
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Saudi Arabia, Soup to Nuts, Some Informative Notes
Matt Lakeman, Notes on Saudi Arabia, November 22, 2022 This essay is my attempt to explain what has been happening in Saudi Arabia over the last five years,... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Meta Announces CICERO, an AI That Plays Diplomacy
Meta AI presents CICERO — the first AI to achieve human-level performance in Diplomacy, a strategy game which requires building trust, negotiating and... Read more
Posted on 25 November 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
From Cognitive Maps to Spatial Schemas
Indeed a really important contribution that @DelaFarzanfar @RosenbaumLab and I cover in Fig 2 of our new review on spatial schemas:https://t.co/f8kzodrcNh... Read more
Posted on 24 November 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Whatever Happened to Work? [hard-core No More]
While Musk in exhorting the remaining employees at Twitter to work "hard core," many Americans are rethinking the idea of work: Jessica Bennett, "The Worst... Read more
Posted on 24 November 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Bilingual Readers Possess Two Distinct Visual Word Form Areas (VWFA)
Do bilingual readers possess two distinct visual word form areas (VWFA) ?See our new preprint on the cortical circuits for reading in high-resolution 7 Tesla... Read more
Posted on 22 November 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Dance to the Music: The Kids Owned the Day@3QD [dance Competition]
In my latest post at 3 Quarks Daily I report on a dance competition where I was hired to photograph the dancers: Dance to the Music: The Kids Owned the Day At... Read more
Posted on 22 November 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
