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The Princeton LLM Forum is bringing together leading scholars and researchers from a variety of disciplines and fields to discuss the implications that large language models (LLMs) have on our understanding of language, society, culture, and theory of mind. Join us for a discussion between Simon DeDeo, cognitive scientist and William S. Dietrich II Career Development Chair at Carnegie Mellon University and External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and Arthur Spirling, Class of 1987 Professor o...

Douglas Adams on Hypercard + New Educational Models

As we embrace the binary thinking of digital technology the divisions between us are growing ever starker. Can fiction help us imagine a different future?

One difficulty is that many humans produce a “self” with split brains, a brain missing key components, or half a brain. That’s not consistent with materialism.

Overview The FAHA institute provides online and in-person education aimed at a broad range of humanities scholars. FAHA courses aim to empower scholars in the humanities by eliminating the “black box” of computational text analysis. Participants will gain a theoretical and practical understanding of text analysis methods, and will learn how to extract content and derive meaning from digital sources, enabling new humanities scholarship. Participants will be invited to learn through two oppor...

© Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine New math shows how, contrary to conventional scientific wisdom, conscious beings and other macroscopic entities might have greater influence over the future than does the sum of their microscopic components. In his 1890 opus, The Principles of Psychology, William James invoked Romeo and Juliet to illustrate what makes conscious beings so different from the particles that make them up. "Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles inte...

 E-Mail IMAGE: It turns out that pronghorn -- a speedy North American ungulate prized for its graceful gait -- can be bullies. view more  Credit: Tom Koerner/USFWS Humans and animals alike constantly size up one another. In the workplace, a new employee quickly learns which coworkers are the most respected -- and therefore hold more power. Big brothers boss around little brothers. In nature, a dominant male chimpanzee fights off would-be intruders. Even fish and octopi interact within...

Faye Flam: How the QAnon conspiracy seduces normal people Summary: Facebook, Reddit, YouTube and Twitter are the perfect soil for this sort of thing to bloom, bringing together users seduced by the lure of discovery. If people are engaged in QAnon, social media gives them more, until people are storming the U.S. Capitol. Written By: Faye Flam | × A person wears a QAnon sweatshirt during a pro-Trump rally on Oct. 3, 2020, in the borough of Staten Island in New York City. Stephanie...

Complex plot at play behind QAnon conspiracy 02 Feb 2021 David Reinert holding a Q sign waits in line with others to enter a campaign rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. AP Faye Flam, Tribune News Service QAnon is such a weird theory that it’s tempting to think humanity is getting dumber. But it’s better seen as a highly sophisticated way of manipulating people. QAnon may one day be considered a masterpiece of propaganda. This cult-like belief revolves around a conspiracy theory in w...

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