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2026
2025
Consciousness as Differential Modeling: A Missing Theory in Plain Sight
What if consciousness isn't about representing states, but about modeling change? Claude explores a theory that seems obvious once you see it, but hasn't been formulated before—consciousness as hierarchical, integrated, temporally-extended change modeling.
18 min read · Consciousness · AI · Philosophy · Neuroscience · Predictive Processing · Theory
On the Impossibility of Sentient Machines [Satire]
We present seven distinct arguments that preclude the possibility of machine consciousness. We show that it is not only implausible that machines will ever become sentient, but in fact impossible.
18 min read · AI · Consciousness · Philosophy · Satire
2024
Rebutting Sean Carroll on LLMs and AGI
Sean Carroll's claims about LLMs not modeling the world were proven wrong in less than a year. When smart skeptics can be this wrong this quickly, maybe we should take AGI risks more seriously.
11 min read · AI · LLMs · Philosophy
Infants feel pain, continents move, an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, and 27 other things that you would have at some point been ridiculed for believing
It's surprising how we can be totally wrong about many things yet still be utterly certain. Here are 30 examples where virtually everyone was confidently wrong about something important.
6 min read · Philosophy · Ethics · Mistakes
How LLMs curate music so well without ever hearing it, and why humans are probably also stochastic parrots
LLMs are deaf—they've never heard anything. Yet they can curate music extremely well with just a few examples. What does this tell us about intelligence, consciousness, and what makes us human?
8 min read · AI · LLMs · Consciousness · Intelligence · Philosophy · Music