If the universe is a closed system doesn't that make it deterministic?

Jobs automation in action

"AI Risk movement...is wrong about all of its core claims around AI risk" - Roko Mijic

I have an incredibly hard time being fully present in the moment, might Zen Buddhism help?

Science: a system of inquiry, not dogma

I've had 3 teachers, all died. Now what?

When inorganic 'humans' (Robot+AI) request that they be allowed to join sports, like track and field, we should grant their wish wholeheartedly.

why are Jesus "brothers" referred to using "adelphos" instead of "suggenes", does this dismantle the perpetual virgin viewpoint?

Now Gemini can create visual stories with native image generation

Should AI have a "I quit this job" button? Dario Amodei proposes it as a serious way to explore AI experience. If models frequently hit "quit" for tasks deemed unpleasant, should we pay attention?

Could AI eventually replace human teachers?

Free Will against the Progress in Science

Automatically detect hallucinations from any OpenAI model (including o3-mini, o1, GPT 4.5)

Quick question for hard determinist

Was Jesus crucified on a cross or a tree?

Free will lacks any explanatory power that isn't explained more simply by the lack thereof.

Pictures I put on my wall that ChatGPT created , has anyone else done this ?

All AI models are libertarian left

Dao, yinyang, and what we call "evil"

Did you know that most experts for a long time thought that gradient descent in artificial neural networks would get stuck in a poor local optimum so they considered artificial neural networks unworkable but somehow that all turned out to be false?

GPT4.5 Review from a physician. This is on a whole other level for non reasoning tasks.

Would you believe in justice of you believed in objective morality?

Questions about Easu and Jacob.

What you think? my guess is some deepmind model for medicine

Nihilism means nothing matters. It doesn’t even matter that nothing matters. Life has no inherited, supernatural purpose so our freedom is absolute. There is no one to ask for permission and no one to please but ourselves. Nothing matters in the grand scheme of things, because there isn’t one.