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Computers Are Probably Not Conscious, But Nobody Knows Why

This post is the text of a lecture that I will give to an audience of non-specialists at the University of Dallas.1

The question of whether a machine might be conscious in the same way that we humans are conscious, even though this controv...

3 months ago
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AI and the Paranoid Classroom

“…you know what you remind me of? That song by Kris Kirstofferson…. ‘He’s a prophet and pusher, partly truth, partly fiction, a walking contradiction,’…. the part about the contradictions. You are that.”

— Betsy speaking to Travis Bickle,...

5 months ago
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Stranger Things in the Heartland of the Real

“Amazingly, the corpses of the two Faces of Terrorism of my generation are nonexistent.”1

That sentence, which is now on my short list of the best mic-drop endings to a book, concludes the main body of Wendy Painting’s magisterial and haun...

6 months ago
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Zoomers Are Nomadic Hunter Gathers and That's Why I Admire Some of Them

I’m a cliche GenXer. My father was a traumatized (though gentle!) Vietnam veteran, and I grew up “latch key” style in small blue collar towns in Wisconsin. Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. album made more than a little sense to me as a kid....

8 months ago
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ChatGPT Is a Repressive Fantasy (audio version)

Francisco de Goya, El Coloso

I am now making audio versions of some of my essays available, beginning with “ChatGPT Is a Repressive Fantasy,” through the Great Dangerous Books Podcast.

I appreciate your interest and support!

9 months ago
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