Yohan John

Excellent stuff from Ted Chiang, as usual. "Is there a way for A.I. to do something other than sharpen the knife blade of capitalism?"

Found a great piece on him from a 1949 issue of Physics Today, written by a poet.

Very interesting essay! Not entirely sure I understand your position on emergence and reductionism, but I don't think reductionism is just a liberal projection or oversimplification: I encounter reductionist scientists too often for that. :)

Excellent article. I got the same impression from asking GPT to solve cryptic crossword puzzles: it knows not what it says. 😅

Very good article on the wider implications of GPT and other large language models. It traverses the middle ground between slack-jawed amazement and flustered cynicism. Highlights below. 🧵

Very nice essay by Ted Chiang on ChatGPT. He's really a treasure of the contemporary world.

There is a good blog post on modularity versus composionality. (If it were up to me I'd get mathematicians to define all technical terms. :P)

My intuition is that topology will be a key tool for neuroscientists and AI/ML researchers in this century. So I was very happy to come across this excellent paper on the topology of spatial navigation, with natural links to more abstract maps.

Nice piece aimed at a general audience by @jmacshine on our serotonin paper. Some food for thought! :)

Very nice essay on social media by @LMSacasas

Interesting article on metaphors used in AI. "Metaphoric language conveys emergent phenomena that are difficult to describe because they are so new."

Neuroscientists and psychiatrists really should read this.