Intermittent Conjecture

[Ed. note: The original version of this post referred to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley as Mary Wollstonecraft and said that she "won...

When I last looked in on computer chess , it hadn't been too long since  AlphaZero  had made waves by beating Stockfish after spending ...

This started out as "one more point before I go" in the previous post , but it grew enough while I was getting that one ready to p...

I a previous post entitled Experiences, mechanisms, behaviors and LLMs , I discussed a couple of strawman objections to the idea that an LLM...

In a previous post on Entropy , I offered a garbled notion of "statistical symmetry." I'm currently reading Carlo Rovelli'...

I actually cut two  chunks out of What would superhuman intelligence even mean? .  I think the one that turned into  this post  is the more ...

While putting together  What would superhuman intelligence even mean?  I took out a few paragraphs that seemed redundant at the time.  While...

This is another post that sat in the attic for a few years.  It overlaps a bit with some later posts, but I thought it was still worth dusti...

Most of the time when I write a post, I finish it up before going on to the next one.  Sometimes I'll keep a draft around if something e...