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Multitasking Machines

"Humans can’t multitask like computers do, and yet our bodies just keep on functioning."

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You in their shoes

"Past experience is biasing, so they're not just you in their shoes."

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Quality of Attention

"It’s not that we can’t concentrate, it’s that we won’t."

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Atheism & Faith

"There is plenty of proof for God if you choose to see it that way, it’s the absence of God that relies on faith."

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Fiction's Narrative

"Fake news has one fatal flaw that fiction doesn’t: It promotes itself as news."

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AI as Training Wheels

"As AI reduces the need to learn complex tasks, is our motivation to learn them eroding forever?"

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No Choices in a Vacuum

"Is an action with a million unverifiable causes any less deterministic than an action that has a single, verifiable, one?"

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Seeding Conclusions

“More knowledge means more informed, and yet, we defer to an echo chamber.”

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Free Will's Role

Every good fairy tale gives us some meaning, but is free will one that we can’t live without?

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Imperfect Analogies

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Invisible Foundations

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You are Faulty and Biased

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Victims of Desire

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Ethical Extinctions

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AI's Loose Lips

They’re poised to replace human faculty, while confidently and blindly feeding you misinformation…

Large language models, like ChatGPT and Google Bard, can interpret your sentences and give you intelligently formulated answers.

The problem with large language models is that they hallucinate as well.

Instead of calculation and reduction, these AI models use something more akin to inference and approximation.

They’re not directly accessing data, but rather…

They’ve absorbed it,

reconfigured it,

discarded their sources,

and added the ideas as a bias to their existing understanding.

They’re poised to replace human faculty while confidently and blindly feeding you misinformation.

Humans, however…

only say things they can 100% validate.

Humans only believe things they have or remember their sources for.

And luckily, humans only act confidently when their sources are validated.

The problem, really, with large language models, is that they wax lyrical just as loosely as humans do.

And they just as easily buy into their own bullshit.

The upside is that we don’t.

The upside is that we set them a higher bar.

So far.

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All we know is, we haven’t proved it wrong. This is the problem with empirical evidence…

The real world is infinite, but we can only test theories against limited samples.

We can’t test every permutation. We can’t run experiments for unending amounts of time. And there’s no gamemaster to confirm when we’ve guessed correctly.

When the answer holds, then, it merely means it was accurate enough to predict the outcomes so far. All we actually know is, we haven’t proved it wrong yet.

That’s inherent to empirical evidence, we can’t get to the truth, we can only refine our approximation of it.

Will there ever be a way to get to the definitive truth?

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We seem to be getting off our pedestal, and yet, sub-atomic particles are undefined until we observe them…

We used to be the centre of the universe. And then Physics and Astronomy showed us we were on one planet in one of many galaxies.

Archaeology and Biology show us we’re a subset of animals that simply happened to evolve the most advanced brains. We’re made of molecules and particles, and energy, just like all other things.

We seem to be getting off our pedestal.

Yet Quantum Physics theories today tell us that properties of sub-atomic particles are undefined until we observe them. That nothing is set until our measurements.

What makes us so special? Is Quantum Physics putting us at the centre of the universe again?

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