Agnes Callard

Philosopher, UChicago

New book:

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@robinhanson chatgpt's predictions re: what the new equilibrium would look like if this became a norm

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@ConvergeToTruth I'm giving a talk in Milwaukee on 11/7, that's a bit closer...?

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@ConvergeToTruth oops thanks will repost, I got today's day wrong!

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@robinhanson "everyone has profound equal dignity but some of us are more profoundly dignified than others"

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@robinhanson I asked ChatGPT, it gave multiple answers, but I selected this one as best: "A human retrieves one salient answer and discards the rest; an LLM activates many partially relevant associations at once and tends to express several of them."

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@mikerosenwald Lovely obituary, it captures a lot about him, thank you for writing it

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@HenryEOliver you’d love the book I just finished

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@DavidPinsof Intelligence, arrogance(this problem can’t defeat me!), inquisitiveness (really wanting to know answers)?

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@DavidPinsof plausible to me that those traits are correlated with avoiding a small set of specific kinds of bad ideas, but not much more than that--that is, they seem very far from anything like necessary or sufficient for good ideas

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@default_friend Ok! I came SO CLOSE to raising my hand during @Aella_Girl 'a final rebuttal to ask whether there were any identical twin studies on fetishes, had to tell myself, "BEHAVE!"--was sorry to have to run off at the end but had to be home for kids' bedtime

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@RizomaSchool yup, they are open to the public, our 1st two for the upcoming academic year are 9/29, Bladerunner at Doc films 6pm, & 8pm 10/30 @LedermanHarvey on ChatGPT & the meaning of life--I'll announce the events here on twitter

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@DavidPinsof whatever was the good thinkers' incentive for producing good ideas, don't the good writers have that?

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@mean_field_zane @megantheevalium Exactly

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@mean_field_zane @megantheevalium I will be there

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@winnie4prez This was great, thanks! Let me know if you’d be up for a zoom convo to discuss your objections!

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@olivertraldi Isn’t that a sign you’re doing it RIGHT?

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@robinhanson ah, that was not clear from your post!
I thought you were just making the descriptive point, and I suspect many other readers thought the same.

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@robinhanson true of many, prob most gifts, eg complex jigsaw puzzle, season tickets, even a gift certificate to a restaurant...