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Co si vzít na dovolenou, aby se vám vrátil proměněný svět — a ne jen opálená kůže Existuje jeden houževnatý mýtus, kterému bych rád jednou provždy zakroutil krkem: mýtus o „knize na pláž". Prý má být lehká, zapomenutelná, tak akorát tupá, aby vám nerušila trávení. Jako by dovolená byla čas, který se má nějak přežít, protrpět v přiměřeném poloomámení mezi dvěma koupelemi. Já to vidím přesně opačně. Nejjistější způsob, jak promarnit […] -
David Chalmers explores whether machines can achieve true consciousness. The philosopher discusses the "hard problem" of consciousness and why nothing fundamentally prevents AI from becoming conscious (or even redesigning itself). Surprisingly engaging convo w Chris Hayes. #AI #Philosophy #Consciousness #DavidChalmers #CognitiveScience #LLMs #NeuralNetworks #douglashofstadter https://youtu.be/NgDIG8u1-CA
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Software development always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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So hey, Fediverse. I did a thing that's just the minutest possible first step of a plan I first dreamed up in 1996. It's an implementation of Douglas Hofstadter's parallel terraced scan in preparation for a lot more work in that direction.
https://codeberg.org/Vivtek/AI-TerracedScan
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"Real thinking is very different from glib cocktail-party banter filled with technical terms."
Douglas Hofstadter tries to disabuse a true believer in sentient LLMs:
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/are-llms-starting-to-become-a-sentient#AI #LLM #ChatGPT #DouglasHofstadter #tech #technology #language
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#CurrentlyReading #DouglasHofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Bach", as recommended by #Electro-pioneer #MartynWare. Also reading Martyn Ware's "Electronically Yours", as written by the previously mentioned recommender. God bless our #PublicLibraries! 🎶 🎞️ 📖 👍 😁 #Books #Reading #Literature #Music #SynthWave #Science #PublicLibrary cc: @everylibrary
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To Err is Human; to Study Error-Making is Cognitive Science
https://worrydream.com/refs/Hofstadter_1989_-_To_Err_is_Human.pdf
"However, what began as a hobby for us became a more serious endeavor as we realized, as so many people have, that the study of speech errors and action slips can reveal a great deal about the hidden organization of the minds that produce them. " -- #DouglasHofstadter #DaivdMoser
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Found in the boxes. I first read this in 1982 (this very copy! The Amidala bookmark is more recent) and I'm continually surprised how much of his later research program was explicitly laid out here.
I *last* read it sometime in the 80's, probably, but there's a lot of fraying tape on it, because I read it often enough to start wearing out the cover. So, since I'm retracing his footsteps now, I figured it was probably time to reread it.
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- Ubik by #PhilipKDick
- The Dispossessed by #UrsulaKLeGuin
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by H. Abelson, G.J. Sussman, J. Sussman
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by #DouglasHofstadter
- Nineteen Eighty-Four by #GeorgeOrwell
- Deschooling Society by #IvanIllich
- V for Vendetta by #AlanMoore