Tag: Claude

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 20, 2026

Categories
Arts
Ethics
Technology
Tagged
, artificial inteligence, books, chatbots, Claude, community, computers, Counterpoint Press, dependence, ecological health, economic justice, electricity, Energy, energy consumption, family, Harper’s Magazine, land, machines, nature, peace, political honesty, pollution, prosocial intentions, relationships, Tanya Berry, technology, thinking, typewriter, water usage, Wendell Berry, work}

Learning about Technology, and Relationships, from Wendell Berry

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 20, 2026

Arts, Ethics, Technology

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Berry describes the beautiful working relationship he had with his wife, Tanya. She typed his work on a Royal standard typewriter. Read More ›

Girl student freelancer working with laptop at home by the window, education and remote work, programmer, online business

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 12, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Science Education
Tagged
, academic year, adults, artificial intelligence, chatbots, ChatGPT, Chicago Tribune, Claude, Cleveland, creative power, creativity, Energy, Gemini, Grok, guardrails, habits, images, intellect, Kamar Samuels, learning, New York City, parents, relationships, school districts, schools, Sherry Turkle, students, teachers, technology, text, videos}

How Much Should Students Use AI? Preferably Not at All

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 12, 2026

Computational Sciences, Science Education

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New York City recently announced a moratorium on AI use in K-12 classes for the 2026-2027 school year. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 31, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, Amazon, Anthropic, artificial inteligence, Ben Mann, Big Tech, books, booksellers, chatbots, ChatGPT, Claude, copyright, ISBNdb, Kindle, knowledge, large language models, licensing, LLMs, Peter Biles, Project Panama, technicians, techno-utopianism, technological view, technology, wisdom}

It’s Time to Buy Old Books Before AI Destroys Them

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 31, 2026

Computational Sciences, Technology

5}

This scheme is the brain child of technicians, people who lead tech companies and tech labs who are wholly committed to a technological view of the world. Read More ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
July 15, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artifacts, Buddy the Elf, C. S. Lewis, cells, Claude, Claude Delusion, Donald Knuth, evolution, femme bot, intelligence, intelligent causes, intelligent design, large language models, Lego blocks, materialism, Nik Prassas, Richard Dawkins, symbolic artifacts, thinking, tokens, Transformer blocks, Turing test, unintelligent causes}

Why Dawkins’s Argument for AI Is an Argument for God

_{George Montañez
July 15, 2026

Computational Sciences, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

5}

If step-by-step mechanical explanations do not rule out creation by intelligent agents, then I’m not sure we can dismiss the evidence for design in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 10, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artificial inteligence, atheists, biology, chatbots, ChatGPT, Claude, computing, consciousness, intelligence, intelligent design, large language models, living systems, personal identity, philosophy, plagiarists, Richard Dawkins, technology, UnHerd}

On Minds and Machines, Richard Dawkins’s Curious Inconsistency

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 10, 2026

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

5}

If we encounter far more advanced informational technology in living organisms, isn’t the same intuition at least worth considering? Read More ›

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Author
Bethel McGrew

Date
June 10, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Metaphysics
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

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This casual devaluing of consciousness is actually intertwined with the rush to ascribe it to AI. The ultimate conclusion is the same. Read More ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
June 1, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Origin 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 ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
February 25, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Human 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 ›