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Turing's Test Has Not Been Passed
Not as described, not the spirit of it, not even "almost"
Mar 26, 2023
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September 2022
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
James Chastek claims somewhere (I was not able to find the specific citation just now) that no one would die for a truth of mathematics; martyrdom, he…
Sep 4, 2022
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August 2022
Intelligence or Death
Suicide (…what does this have to do with intelligence?)
Aug 14, 2022
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Sense of Meaning
In the last post, I noted that giving an abstract response to a general question about the meaning of life is different from giving someone a personal…
Aug 6, 2022
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July 2022
Two Meanings of Life
A first meaning
Jul 31, 2022
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Life, the Universe, and Everything
In Chapter 25 of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams makes fun of questions about the meaning of life:
Jul 30, 2022
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A New Beginning
Migrating my blog to Substack
Jul 28, 2022
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June 2021
How to Build an Artificial Human
I was going to use "Artificial Intelligence" in the title here but realized after thinking about it that the idea is really more specific than that.
Jun 19, 2021
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Prayer and Probability
The reader might wonder about the relation between the previous post and my discussion of Arman Razaali. If I could say it is more likely that he was…
Jun 15, 2021
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Might People on the Internet Sometimes Tell the Truth?
Lies and Scott Alexander
Jun 9, 2021
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The Debunkers
Why are they all blurry?
Jun 9, 2021
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A Correction Regarding Laplace
A few years ago, I quoted Stanley Jaki on an episode supposedly involved Laplace:
Jun 6, 2021
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