Mind the Minds
Zoltan VarjuIntelligence in all forms - natural and artificial. Weekly insights on how minds work, learn, and shape our world.
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OpenAI's Remake of WarGames Is Under Development
In WarGames, the 1983 film, a teenager dials into a Pentagon computer and asks it to play Global Thermonuclear War. The machine agrees. Its designers built it to run simulations, and it runs the simulation with real missiles, because nothin...
The Language of Thought Is Not a Language
In March 2023 Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts and Jeffrey Watumull published an essay in the New York Times under the title “The False Promise of ChatGPT.” The human mind, they wrote, “is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical eng...
A Globe for Jules Verne, Built Mostly Without Me
We read Around the World in Eighty Days at home, a chapter at a time, with a globe on the table. My son wanted to find every place as it was named, so we kept stopping to turn it. Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Yokohama. It is a pleasan...
Then Throw Away the Ladder
Probably the best-known sentence in twentieth-century philosophy, and it is the last line of a book of about eighty pages. Wittgenstein worked most of the Tractatus out in notebooks he carried as an artillery soldier, on the Russian front i...
Effective altruism is the poor man's Marx
The thought came back to me reading the Guardian's new interview with Peter Singer, 80 now and back in Melbourne, walking a reporter along Merri Creek and saying of capitalism: "We ought to try and improve it, patch it up, fill the gaps." I...
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Data scientist exploring the intersection of cognitive science, AI, and philosophy. I write about how minds work - both human and artificial. Weekly insights on intelligence in all forms at Mind the Minds.
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