PopeLeoXIV Type post Author Bethel McGrew Date June 10, 2026 CategoriesComputational SciencesMetaphysics Tagged , child, Claude, Claudia, consciousness, conversations, design, employee, encyclical, evolutionary logic, humans, Large Language Model, LLMs, machines, men, mice, person, Pope Leo XIV, Richard Dawkins, self-reflection, slave, spiritual communion, Ted Chiang, telos, The Atlantic, The Free Press, Tyler Cowen, UnHerd, wisdom, word-generation machines, writing, zombies Zombie Metaphysics: Dawkins Versus Pope Leo Bethel McGrew June 10, 2026 Computational Sciences, Metaphysics 6 This casual devaluing of consciousness is actually intertwined with the rush to ascribe it to AI. The ultimate conclusion is the same. Read More ›
Clementinumbaroquelibrary2 Type post Author George Montañez Date June 1, 2026 CategoriesIntelligent DesignMathematicsOrigin of Life Tagged , alphabet, books, bookshelves, Claude, fair coin, fiction, Hebrew, hexagons, implausible, implossibility, implossible, impossible, intelligent design, Jorge Luis Borges, letters, library, Monty Python, peer-reviewed literature, probability, punctuation, spaces, The Library of Babel, universe, Vindications, World Cup, zero On Implossibility (No, Spell-Check Didn’t Fail Me) George Montañez June 1, 2026 Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Origin of Life 6 What is the probability of forming a book with at least one hundred words in a row, if we are sampling from the Hebrew alphabet? Read More ›
Smokingpipesitter Type post Author George Montañez Date February 25, 2026 CategoriesComputational SciencesHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , animals, arithmetic, artificial inteligence, attention, bigram model, Claude, Claude Shannon, coherence, comprehension, computer code, conversations, Data Processing Inequality, disinformation, embedding, English, fish, food, functional capability, games, generative AI systems, GPT-5, humans, incompleteness theorem, information theory, Kurt Gödel, large language models, mathematical reasoning, model collapse, music, numbers, pixels, poetry, processing, prompts, reasoning, René Magritte, semantics, statistical patterns, syntax, The Treachery of Images, tokens, vectors, video, William Shakespeare, word approximation, words Why AI Can’t Replace Us Functionally George Montañez February 25, 2026 Computational Sciences, Human Exceptionalism 9 The map is not the territory. The symbol is not the thing. And the model is not the mind. Read More ›
