Archive - entirelyuseless’s Newsletter

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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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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