Gregg R Thomas

Even the great overlord, AI?

Here’s a take on freewill.  The perception is one of (limited) freedom of choice at any one moment.  This perception is a conscious perception.  This conscious freedom of choice can be further limited or shaped by subconscious factors.

Yet the background physical substrate upon which perception and consciousness “l…[Read more]

🙂 Even A.I. sees no freewill .

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Is that two AIs talking to each other? Yes…..and they are talking about us! 🙂

Chess match between two supercomputers:

Computer 1: Pawn to King 4

Computer 2: Resigns

Had some sort of mental breakdown and now he’s running a church. Maybe Trump will appoint him as his spiritual advisor.

We heard it here first!

I was going to write something about JP’s new book but it is not worth it.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
How Jordan Peterson fooled young men into thinking he’s the world’s smartest man.

I don’t know what to think about Jordan Peterson.  I admire him for standing up to the woke bullies about free speech.  I think his “rules for young men” probably have done a lot of good.  Beyond that, he has said some apparently misogy…[Read more]

Is that two AIs talking to each other?

Yes…..and they are talking about us! 🙂

Thanks, Reg!

Have a great week!

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce.

jakelafort wrote:
AI will control us by 2034? That is absurd. Humans are discerning, have free will and make decisions for themselves!

There is no free will. Just like billiard balls, their actions (and thoughts) emerge inevitably from the antecedent conditions going on in their nervous system and mind, many of these antecedents beyond their…[Read more]

Some really good musicians here.

@ Jake

Matt Gaetz is a kind of Picture of Dorian Gray of himself.

What about Stephen Miller? If he looks, acts, and talks like a Nazi…

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Wittgenstein was my Master’s thesis (“Wittgenstein and Moore on Certainty”). He’s up there with Berty Russell as a quotable philosopher.

“Light dawns gradually over the whole” is about as perfect a description of how a subject matter becomes understood as there is.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
A new system of Logic could boost Critical Thinking.

This is really interesting, in that it uses Wittgenstein’s definition of the meaning of words – how they are used in real life; in what contexts – in a way that can be understood by computers.  A computer can analyse the way a word is used by humans, and so, its…[Read more]