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an uplifting short story about the heat death of the universe from the point of view of the universe
User write an uplifting short story about the heat death of the universe from the point of view of the universe ChatGPT For billions of years, I have…
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Henry Cooksley
GPT on the DSM
User: give a philosophical interpretation of the mental disorder categories of the DSM as if you were a specialist in the philosophy concept of "natural…
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GPT-4 reminds us how much AI research owes to physics
Artificial intelligence and large language models like GPT-4 are impressive. But the technology used to create such models only exists due to the prior…
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Henry Cooksley
On "Effective altruism, risk, and human extinction" by Richard Pettigrew
Richard Pettigrew has written a new paper on existential risk: semanticscholar.org | philarchive.org The paper briefly examines the disturbing argument…
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the thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night
each day is a little life every waking and rising a little birth every fresh morning a little youth every going to rest and sleep a little death…
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“I have absolutely no doubt that it's not our universe”: Henry's review of Conversations on Quantum Gravity by Jay Armas
This review also appears on Goodreads. It is by now a well-worn slogan that there is something called the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in…
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A linkpost for Peter Woit's critique of Conversations on Quantum Gravity
Quantum gravity is perhaps the best known ‘unsolved problem’ in physics: the final puzzle piece that serious people believe could give us a physical…
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Geometry, the 1872 Erlangen programme, quantum machine learning (+ life update)
Hello! I’ve had something of a break from writing. It looks like my last post here was in August 2020. My excuse is that I recently started in a new…
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