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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

We don't know Haruki Murakami yet.

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  We don't know Haruki Murakami yet. I recently reread Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood in an excellent English translation by the J...
Wednesday, January 08, 2025

Collapse of generative AIs?

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Some people are starting to predict a collapse of generative AIs, but I am perhaps more skeptical of the AI skeptics than of AI itself. Th...
Tuesday, January 07, 2025

Why Elon Musk is so powerful.

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Mr Musk has been a marvel for obvious reasons, but in the last few weeks his influence has gown out of proportions. The bromance with Mr D...
Monday, January 06, 2025

We don't understand what the language game is.

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In board games such as chess, go, and shogi, the AIs have beaten human champions. Indeed, today, nobody is in the doubt as to whether AIs ...
Sunday, January 05, 2025

How to measure the intelligence of AGI and/or ASI/

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As we go on the road to AGI and/or ASI, there is a genuine problem of how to measure intelligence. IQ is based on the assumption of a Gauss...
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Saturday, January 04, 2025

Formalization of numbers.

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I always felt that there was something strange about the way the concept of numbers are formalized by set theory or category theory. Altho...

An entertainment of one's own. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl by Nick Park, released from Aardman @aardman

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It is so wonderful when grownups do their best to entertain children and the inner children in our hearts. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance M...
Friday, January 03, 2025

Queen of Hearts. Diane Morgan in Cunk on Life.

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Cunk on Life, starring Diane Morgan as the cleverly irrelevant interviewer and interrogator Philomena Cunk, is a delightful repeat of this...
Thursday, January 02, 2025

Ken Mogi bio, contact, and profile photos.

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  Ken Mogi is a neuroscientist, writer, and broadcaster based in Tokyo. Ken Mogi is a senior researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratorie...
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Wednesday, January 01, 2025

The self and the diversity of qualia.

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The individualities of qualia are defined in the framework of the self, so in that sense, the uniqueness of qualia and the uniqueness of the...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

I LIKE MOVIES, written and directed by Chandler Levack.

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I LIKE MOVIES (2022), written and directed by Chandler Levack, is a wonderfully realistic depiction of the growing pains of a young person....
Sunday, December 29, 2024

AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor

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AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor was a very interesting read. The authors make a salient point that compared to generati...
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Ken Mogi
Ken Mogi, Ph.D. Neuroscientist, writer, and broadcaster. Author of The little book of ikigai (Awakening your ikigai in the U.S.), and The Way of Nagomi (April 2022) Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ken.mogi.31 Research: The Collective Intelligence Research Laboratory (CIRL) at The University of Tokyo: https://sites.google.com/view/collectiveintelligenceutokyo/home Twitter: @kenmogi My mission is to solve the so-called mind-brain problem. I would like to understand how our consciousness full of qualia arise from the billions of firing neurons in the brain. I research in Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Tokyo. I also teach at several universities. I write critical essays on the arts and literature. I was the conceptor for the Qualia Movement of Sony Corporation. I stayed in Cambridge, U.K. for two years to do postdoc. I have published ~ 100 books in Japanese, and The Little Book of Ikigai in English, which is to be translated into ~30 languages in 35 countries. I sometimes appear on Japanese television. My given name is Kenichiro (meaning "healthy first son"). So I am formally known as "Kenichiro Mogi". "Ken" is an abbreviation.
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