What prevents dogmatism is smarts *combined* with curiosity. Can't fool yourself so easily when you both spot reasoning errors reliably and enjoy exploration and discovery more than being 'right' or 'virtuous'. This is not the norm, unfortunately, as most people associate surprises with danger.

Another big red false-panic button is water use in data centers. As Andy Masley explains, that's dwarfed even by golf courses, and golf courses rarely enable AI tools that are already saving large amounts of water by leak detection and irrigation optimization. open.substack.com/pub/andymasl...

"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."--Clarke's First Law

Thanks, it's tough to grasp even for the curious. As I take it, representations are spread out across populations of neurons, patterns of activation across multiple layers, on which sparse autoencoders can shed some light. But the mathematical 'language' of these embeddings is still largely obscure.

Explain how AlphaEvolve (essentially an LLM cluster directed by an evolutionary algorithm) could discover improved solutions in computing infrastructure, chip design, and mathematical algorithms if it had no intelligence at all. arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131

Explain how "nonsense" won gold at the international math olympiad or beat every human team at the ICPC world finals. These competitions present original tasks an AI cannot lift from its training data. Acing them in the absence of intelligence would be an ineffable miracle. youtu.be/1XJafbCO8iI

Meaningless patterns cannot win gold at the international math olympiad or beat every human team at the ICPC world finals. These competitions present original tasks an AI cannot lift from its training data. Acing them in the absence of intelligence would be an ineffable miracle. youtu.be/1XJafbCO8iI

Doesn't matter. Biological brains are special only insofar as they can evolve naturally. There is no logical or scientific reason why ability to generate consciousness should be = ability to evolve. The secret sauce is in the patterns. I doubt conscious AI exists right now but it most probably will.

Man muss nicht mal ein Atheist sein, um zu erkennen, dass eine Religion, derzufolge gute und intellektuell aufrichtige Nichtgläubige--Bertrand Russell, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking--auf ewig in der Hölle brennen, für eine auf Geistesfreiheit & Aufklärung gründende Zivilisation ein Klotz am Bein ist.

Noch ein Grund, warum mein Lieblingspolitspruch "wer nicht rechts ist, ist nicht links, sondern bei Verstand" lautet. Ohne Kernenergie wird sich die Deindustrialisierung Deutschlands fortsetzen. Dann ist es mit dem sozialen Frieden vorbei und bald danach mit der liberalen Demokratie.