Three Pound Brain

So as my Wikipedia page gets redacted and whittled away, redacted and whittled away, I’m regularly emailed by Wikipedia editors willing to provide protection for a fee.

So WordPress prompted me to change my password, and I just spent weeks trying to get back online.

The single biggest knowledge deficit in those convinced of AI experience, without a doubt, has to be neuropathology.

I think the most politically significant fact we’ve been working here the past years is the dependency of Enlightenment socialization on ‘adapt-to’ analogue technologies, and how digital technologies are more ‘adapt to us’ machines, automatically targeting

Now that they are finally realizing that flash intelligence algorithmically bound to its training data will likely require a Dyson Sphere to produce godlike intelligence, some researchers are either bailing on LLMs, or reimagining what LLMs could be.

Back in 1947, Edward Sapir famously called nonverbal communication “an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.”

Well, folks, this is it.

[I think I wrote this 2017; I had a computer disaster around then and I don’t think it saw the light of day.

I think it’s fair to say it’s beginning in earnest now.

Once again, in midst of all the ad hominem nonsense coming from the Trump-Newscorp-Combine, we find another theorist, this time neuroscientist (and creationist) Michael Egnor, embracing an ad hominem dismissal of eliminativism on the Mind Matters podcast,…

What are the odds that I would finish writing a near-future viral thriller (The Lollipop Factory) just as 2019-nCoV was becoming entrenched in Wuhan?