Turns out, even LLMs need to "think" for some minutes when you give it the transparent newcomb's problem.

Happy New Year! As 2024 ends, I decided to look back at Permutation City (1994) and see what bits of science fiction has become fact, which bits are still fiction, and which bits we're still unsure about. Because advanced tech always seems to be ~30years from the prediction date, for some reason?

Hello Bluesky! Wondering if there are any people on here interested in understanding brains, both of the artificial and biological human kind?

I have a substack dedicated to thinking about how to compare them fairly.