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  1. Mark's avatar

    I just want to address this comment: > What initially presents itself as impressive intelligence can, upon closer inspection by…

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    Hi Dan, Actually, no, that the engine is next-token prediction does not entail that “there is only so much recycling,…

  3. Mark's avatar

    I’m a mathematician who works on AI research, though not specifically on training LLMs. Basically, we really don’t know what’s…

  4. Luis Marxuach's avatar

    My experience with LLMs as a layperson/non-philosopher is that the aforesaid are excellent as spell checkers and translators (and, at…

  5. 永江　守's avatar

    I think we need to separate several different issues here: the future of the university, the future of education, the…

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    Unless we accept dualism, ultimately any creative process comes down to high-level emergent consequences of a very complex system whose…

Nathan Oseroff

  • Some further thoughts on Twitter

    The first round of observations was so popular (especially on Twitter!), I thought I'd add a few more based on things I've learned and observed the last couple of months. 1.  I came across this interesting chart via Justin Weinberg's blog, which shows that the vast majority of U.S. adults do not use Twitter at all…

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  • Christa Peterson’s “hit piece” on Kathleen Stock

    Christa Peterson (Southern California) will be known to readers of the blog for her penchant to tell all philosophers to "fuck off," to denounce work by feminist theorists and philosophers she doesn't like as "dumb as shit,", or just "shit", and, of course, her frequent tweeting "fuck Brian Leiter," after she tired of merely expressing…

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  • Some observations about Twitter, esp. philosophy-related Twitter

    Max Noichl, a graduate student at the University of Vienna, made a map of philosophy tweeters (based on followers and retweets) which is making the rounds on Twitter.  I’m not really sure what it means, but it looks neat!  (Mr. Noichl offers some explanation here.) Friends and colleagues like Leslie Green at Oxford and Queen’s,…

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