Tag: AI
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(from my May 3rd, 2026 notes) Unfortunately, Richard Dawkins put out a book called The Claude Delusion and it’s being panned. The argument Dawkins makes in the book: “So my own position is: ‘If these machines are not conscious, what more could it possibly take to convince you that they are?’” His version of Claude…
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“Bygones are forever bygones,” William Stanley Jevons once wrote. But human minds are not blank ledgers wiped clean at each decision. We’re accumulators — of sensations, biases, and half-baked rules of thumb — and we act on them whether or not they’re still relevant. In 1996, Louis Lévy-Garboua and Claude Montmarquette published a paper titled…