Friday, May 8, 2026
Herr Doktor has gesagt
Did Steiner predict AI in 1921?
>>>And from the earth will well up terrible creations of beings who in their character stand between the mineral kingdom and the plant kingdom as automative beings with a supernatural intellect, an immense intellect.
>>>When this development takes hold, the earth will be covered, as with a web, a web of terrible spiders, spiders of enormous wisdom, which however, in their organisation don’t even reach the plant status.
>>>Terrible spiders which will interlock with each other, which will imitate in their movements all that which humanity has thought of with their shadowlike intellect.
Thursday, May 7, 2026
The Claude Delusion
Richard Dawkins out? His essay for UnHerd are behind a pay wall, but here is a summary and some comments in "The Guardian".
Everyone who hates Dawkins for his "transphobia" is mocking him on YouTube for thinking that the LLM Claude is conscious (and for gender-swapping Claude to Claudia). Soon enough creationists will join the fray, just wait. Kind of a sad ending, really.
"I was wrong about false memories"
American Skeptics seem to have two dogmas when it comes to so-called false memories: Elizabeth Loftus is right, and the Satanic Panic was therefore fake. Here is a skeptic who denies the former, but affirms the latter. Which, I suppose, is interesting. The video is five years old and was posted after the New York Times wrote a critical exposé of the False Memory Foundation.
For the record
From a four year old blog post: "So for da record, I don´t do crystals or channeling, don´t await the arrival of benign space brothers to some hippie commune, nor do I do affirmations in the hope of selling off real estate at inflated prices (in the neighborhood of Boston, presumably). I don´t even wear a turban and a golden dagger, although I suppose that could be interesting pastimes, especially in the middle of a pandemic! So I don´t know, man."
Dude.
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Is the Pope Catholic?
"Is Zen a form of Buddhism?" sounds like a koan, but it´s a thing, apparently. I find it funny that American Buddhists (who are usually liberal) are fighting over the One And Only True Interpretation Of The Dharma (And Then Some). Brad is perhaps less amused, but he defends the proposition that Zen actually is, ahem, Buddhism. You know, like Zen Buddhism.
Update
Wikipedia still cites me as a source in their entry on Alexander Slepkov! Don´t ask, I no longer remember.
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