William James

On the language of LLMs: Old paradigms for new (part 2)

This essay covers the problems with using words we use to describe human cognition to talk about LLMs, Alan Turing’s influential solution to the problem…

Jun 7 •

On the language of LLMs

Part One: Semantic confusion: how using the vocabulary of human cognition to describe transformer-based language models obscures our understanding of…

May 31 •

The Radicalism of William James

Essays on Consciousness

Mar 22 •

On Techno-pragmatism (part 2)

An Old Name for Some Useful Ways of Thinking

Jan 7 •

On Techno-pragmatism

An Old Name for Some Useful Ways of Thinking

Jan 2 •

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