AI chatbots remind me of HAL, the computer in A Space Odyssey 2001. HAL seemed sentient, so he looked human. But what if chatbots start 2 seem like gods 2 our increasingly credulous population? And competing gods arise? We’ll have a 21st-century pantheon with horrific potential.

Der einflussreiche deutsche Philosoph Jürgen Habermas ist tot. Der Begründer der «Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns» starb am Samstag im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg. brnw.ch/21x0JNb

This whole website is just people pretending to not understand things.

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Imagine an entire eon of history drowning in the residues of Platonism. Lmao I could never.

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Stefan Banach was born exactly 134 years ago today 🎉 A self-taught prodigy, he was "discovered" by a professor who overheard him discussing Lebesgue integrals in a Kraków park. Here’s a cool instance of the Banach fixed-point theorem.

It’s not rare at all

I’m too German and too autistic for this test

Grok is this true?

Unfortunately most doctors are reluctant to prescribe liquids to keep costs down. Without including the costs of people disabled by withdrawal or worse this is a false economy. Needs a formal change of policy - such as signalled in NICE guidelines recommending liquids 4 tapering

False theories of mind are now deadly.

Paul Dirac, Nobel Prize winning physicist btw

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I don’t know if they are decent philosophers in other areas but machine consciousness is not a reasonable belief

No reasonable philosopher thinks a sequence of numbers can be alive.

Functionalism is just way of making consciousness explicable from the standpoint of evolution

We know that consciousness is not a cloud or a balloon or a hot dog