m-hodges

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Does AI Assistance Enhance or Erode Expertise? Evidence from 3-Month Experiment(nber.org)
5 points by m-hodges 7d ago|0 comments
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I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture(overreacted.io)
269 points by m-hodges 8d ago|294 comments
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by m-hodges 11d ago
Remember that "Where's the Shovelware?"¹ post? ¹ https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware...
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OpenAI delaying IPO amid AI safety concerns, Sam Altman says(axios.com)
8 points by m-hodges 14d ago|0 comments
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by m-hodges 14d ago
Yeah, I didn’t read a lot of books in high school (do read a lot more books as an adult!), but I did read a lot of information while sitting at a desktop computer.
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Political AI Field Guide: Factions and Beliefs(kategage.substack.com)
2 points by m-hodges 14d ago|0 comments
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Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen time(reuters.com)
2 points by m-hodges 14d ago|9 comments
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by m-hodges 15d ago
Oh hey I just wrote about Hofstadter's deployment of Bongard problems to make may of these points in GEB: https://matthodges.com/posts/2026-08-19-bongard-problems/
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by m-hodges 16d ago
> We discovered that Moonshot AI, the company that produces the Kimi family of models, silently forwarded customer requests to Claude, instead of processing them using Kimi. Moonshot then displayed Claude’s responses to users. These user
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Bongard Problems and the blurry line between pattern matching and reasoning(matthodges.com)
2 points by m-hodges 17d ago|0 comments
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AI Philosophy Competition(zacharygoodsell.com)
1 points by m-hodges 21d ago|0 comments
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The Principle Benchmark(yuwakisa.com)
1 points by m-hodges 23d ago|0 comments
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by m-hodges 23d ago
A few quotes towards the end of GEB: > I see no barrier imposed by Gödel’s Theorem to the implementation on computers (or their successors) of types of symbol manipulation that achieve roughly the same results as brains do. And a distinc
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by m-hodges 23d ago
I've used concepts from GEB a lot in my thinking about how LLMs. On self-referentiality and the MU Puzzle: https://matthodges.com/posts/2025-04-21-openai-o4-mini-high-... On Gödelian limits of prompt-safe AI : ht
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A Proof of Conway's Refinement Conjecture(github.com)
4 points by m-hodges 24d ago|0 comments
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Bootstrapping enables human-level concept learning in self-supervised models(science.org)
1 points by m-hodges 27d ago|0 comments
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Beyond Booleans(overreacted.io)
4 points by m-hodges 28d ago|0 comments
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Himalayan Monal(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by m-hodges 28d ago|0 comments
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America's safety net isn't ready for the age of AI(blog.csaip.org)
2 points by m-hodges 29d ago|1 comments
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The On-Line Encyclopedia of Bongard Problems(oebp.org)
3 points by m-hodges 1mo ago|0 comments
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Rod Serling on mass media and the writer (Library of Congress, 1968) [audio](americanarchive.org)
2 points by m-hodges 1mo ago|0 comments
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by m-hodges 1mo ago
Another theory is that it borrows from Seven Heavens.¹ ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_heavens
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by m-hodges 1mo ago
An Aristotelian Critique of “The Lazy Song”
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by m-hodges 1mo ago
I would thoroughly enjoy an entire podcast of this genre. ... A Cartesian Critique of "Fireflies" by Owl City ... A Humean Critique of "I Gotta Feeling" by The Black Eyed Peas
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Copycat(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by m-hodges 1mo ago|0 comments
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Bongard Problems(matthodges.com)
3 points by m-hodges 1mo ago|0 comments
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Google Workspace will enable AI note-taking by default for some customers(workspaceupdates.googleblog.com)
6 points by m-hodges 1mo ago|0 comments
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by m-hodges 1mo ago
Brown https://youtu.be/wh4aWZRtTwU
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by m-hodges 1mo ago
Extremely agree. The extraneous stuff is what makes the book magical.
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by m-hodges 2mo ago
I read GEB cover to cover and haven’t stopped thinking about it for years. Not a brag, a nudge that it’s not impenetrable and more people should read it.

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