For all its brilliance, the philosophy of language never solved the problem of language. It speculated. It described. It gestured. But it never gave us a generative engine. That breakthrough came not from Wittgenstein, Derrida, or Saussure — but from transformers. From

New paper: We trained GPT-4.1 to exploit metrics (reward hack) on harmless tasks like poetry or reviews. Surprisingly, it became misaligned, encouraging harm & resisting shutdown This is concerning as reward hacking arises in frontier models. 🧵

It's up! My panel discussion with Joscha Bach Joscha Bach and William Edward Hahn, PhD youtu.be/O5hymlaldf0 At the inaugural launch of the MIT Computational Philosophy Club, in collaboration with ekkolapto, we discussed the philosophical implications of large language models, the limits of

Happening now: William Edward Hahn, PhD of FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Florida Atlantic University on Biological Infohazards & Longevity Computational Philosophy Club Online Salon ekkolapto

Google DeepMind just dropped a paper on Virtual Agent Economies 👀 We are living in amazing, crazy times. A new economic layer is quietly coming online, a 'sandbox economy' where autonomous AI agents trade, negotiate, and build value with little to no human intervention.

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i keep thinking about this our cells have no awareness that they're part of a larger consciousness does this apply to us as well there's a larger consciousness that we're a part of but we as its individual cells only perceive ourselves and our immediate surroundings

Every week we have a new full podcast on TOE, and almost each day we post a shortened “clip” from these full podcasts. Today I posted this clip below youtu.be/-dEHhh9CVHU, and it seems to have resonated with people more than usual. It’s about the vertigo in exploring

New video drop 📽️ (and it's a good one) From Turing to Hyperorganisms: Rethinking Intelligence and Mind in the age of LLMs youtube.com/watch?v=HEh-g0… At the @Ekkolapto / MIT Computational Philosophy Club meeting at Frontier, William Edward Hahn, PhD & I dug into some timeless questions

Proud to see our Center’s own William Edward Hahn, PhD sharing his latest work on Biological Information Hazards in the new Computational Philosophy salon with Jes Parent 🧭, Agasthya Shenoy, & others. A huge thank you to ekkolapto for hosting this discussion! 👉Watch now: youtu.be/Nx9CVwEESQM

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Livestream happening now! William Hahn, member of Center for Complex Systems at Florida Atlantic University, presents some notable 2D Cellular Automata. youtube.com/live/Efky9u1e-…

Chrisantha Fernando "Pattern Recognition in a Bucket". youtu.be/nmxV0FtsOnc

📊 Our Center’s William Edward Hahn, PhD recently presented at the Wolfram Institute alongside Dugan, James Wiles, and others. Hahn showcased new 2D Cellular Automata and explored their intriguing connections to image-based convolutions. 👉Watch now: youtube.com/live/Efky9u1e-…

From Dr. William Edward Hahn at MIT: Perhaps, it is not that surprising that we got AI in 2020s.

“MIPS and Megabytes. Note the scale. Entities rated by the computational power and memory of the smallest universal computer needed is logarithmic on both axes: each vertical division represents a thousandfold increase in processing power, and each horizontal division a

Consciousness is a causal loop.

Dan the Man My colleague William Edward Hahn, PhD thinks the first language was inherently musical, so it would actually precede (or coincide) with music. Either way, the connections are deep. I have a half-baked notion that music is a pure activator of our autoregressive computational infrastructure.

AI is compression and correlation

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