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by bbenzon 4y ago
A life-long intellectual journey, from an interest in Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" to an interest in large language models.
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From “Kubla Khan” through GPT and beyond(3quarksdaily.com)
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by bbenzon 4y ago
Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" has a very coherent structure. Two movements of the poem are each divided into three sections; in both cases the middle of those three in turn has three subsections and again, the middle of the middle
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by bbenzon 4y ago
This is a review essay of Benny Shanon, The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience (Oxford University Press, 2002), which is a detailed phenomenological account of what happens when one takes ayahuasca
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by bbenzon 4y ago
We can think of the self as the result of interaction between subcortical systems for regulating the global brain state and largely cortical systems for representing the current body state and autobiography. The personal pronoun system is a
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by bbenzon 4y ago
The range of subjects in Disney’s Fantasia is encyclopedic, placing it in a class with such very different works a Dante’s Divine Comedy, Goethe’s Faust, Melville’s Moby Dick, and Joyce’s Ulysses (cf. Mendelson on encyclopedic narrative and
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by bbenzon 4y ago
I examine a set of stories that are organized on three levels: 1) the entire story trajectory, 2) segments within the trajectory, and 3) sentences within individual segments. I conjecture that the probability distribution from which ChatGPT
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Relational Nets over Attractors, a Primer(academia.edu)
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The Evolution of Cognition(academia.edu)
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Discursive Competence in ChatGPT, Part 1: Talking with Dragons(academia.edu)
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ChatGPT Intimates a Tantalizing Future(academia.edu)
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by bbenzon 4y ago
Thanks for the link, guys. Here's another Seinfeld paper: https://www.academia.edu/26282876/Jerry_Seinfeld_and_the_Cra... And here's one on how ChatGPT tells stories: https://www.academia.edu/
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by bbenzon 12y ago
I saw the ad in hardcopy in The New Republic sometime in the 1990s. I replied but got no response. Sometime five or six years ago I applied directly to D. E. Shaw and came up empty. I believe that that these days Shaw himself spends his tim
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by bbenzon 12y ago
"Financiers want to change the world too, namely, turn it into change and put that change in their pockets." Bingo!