The Pat Hayes
@thepathayes.bsky.social
Visual artist. Retired AI researcher, SWeb, Luce Professor of cognitive science, AAAI President, W3C invited expert, philosopher, logician. Interested in time, consciousness, determinism, quantum theory. I used to flip houses, now I read books.
So that he can declare martial law and cancel elections. Think I am exaggerating? Wait and see.
September 28, 2025 at 12:56 AM
So that he can declare martial law and cancel elections. Think I am exaggerating? Wait and see.
He made the unforgivable mistake of letting someone video him.
September 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
He made the unforgivable mistake of letting someone video him.
Sure, you can contact me any time. I'm currently in California. I love that word in this context. I will refer to myself as an AI antecedent from now on.
September 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Sure, you can contact me any time. I'm currently in California. I love that word in this context. I will refer to myself as an AI antecedent from now on.
Congratulations!
September 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Congratulations!
Except this is BS. Sme humans DO use the em dash (option-dash), if they know anything about how to type English text properly. I have been using it for 40 years.
September 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Except this is BS. Sme humans DO use the em dash (option-dash), if they know anything about how to type English text properly. I have been using it for 40 years.
Cats know everything. The cat knows, but it does not care.
February 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Cats know everything. The cat knows, but it does not care.
Tumbling driven by fast-moving water?
January 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Tumbling driven by fast-moving water?
He didn't even get the joke right. It used to be about 'radical feminists', and the reply is: "One, and it's not funny!"
January 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM
He didn't even get the joke right. It used to be about 'radical feminists', and the reply is: "One, and it's not funny!"
If you think this is just cute, try going down an escalator with bare feet.
December 16, 2024 at 11:20 PM
If you think this is just cute, try going down an escalator with bare feet.
... he jumped backwards in shock, sloshing his wine, and said, "Are you THE Pat Hayes??". And I was obliged to say, almost apologetically, that yes, I was.
So you see, I am just using the name I was given.
So you see, I am just using the name I was given.
November 18, 2024 at 1:42 AM
... he jumped backwards in shock, sloshing his wine, and said, "Are you THE Pat Hayes??". And I was obliged to say, almost apologetically, that yes, I was.
So you see, I am just using the name I was given.
So you see, I am just using the name I was given.
...at the time, I was wandering around a social evening at a giant AAAI conference looking for someone I knew, when another lost soul clutching a plastic plate of munchies and a plastic glass of wine saw me, smiled tentatively and leaned in to read my name badge. But when he did, ...
November 18, 2024 at 1:42 AM
...at the time, I was wandering around a social evening at a giant AAAI conference looking for someone I knew, when another lost soul clutching a plastic plate of munchies and a plastic glass of wine saw me, smiled tentatively and leaned in to read my name badge. But when he did, ...
Individual selection can favor altruism, when altruism increases the chances of reproduction.
November 17, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Individual selection can favor altruism, when altruism increases the chances of reproduction.
None of the above. It is the individual who is most likely to cause the reproduction of the gene which is expressed in the trait. We are devices that genes have developed to increase their chances of being replicated in future generations. For more, read Dawkins.
November 17, 2024 at 12:32 AM
None of the above. It is the individual who is most likely to cause the reproduction of the gene which is expressed in the trait. We are devices that genes have developed to increase their chances of being replicated in future generations. For more, read Dawkins.