Erik P. Hoel
Writer at The Intrinsic Perspective
Scientist and author. Better on Substack than Twitter. https://t.co/CKyLzw5bHK
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2 weeks ago |
theintrinsicperspective.com | Erik P. Hoel
The Desiderata series is a regular roundup of links and thoughts for paid subscribers, and an open thread for the community. Contents:Real dire wolves, or genetic looks-maxxing? Were we always in a semantic apocalypse? Vibe governing: AI and the tariff equations. A new documentary on consciousness. Whoops, neuroimaging experiments don’t generalize!Author buys cute church for $75,000… because he can. Directed panspermia debate: Should we seed life across the galaxy? From the archives.
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2 weeks ago |
theintrinsicperspective.com | Erik P. Hoel
Can you guess on which platform, and by which author, works with these titles appeared? “On the Education of Children.”“How the Young Man Should Study Poetry.”“How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend.”“Which Is More Intelligent: Land or Sea Animals?”If some of these have an archaic ring, it’s because they’re 2,000 years old. The author was Plutarch, the Greek (and Roman) philosopher and historian, and clearly also an essayist well-practiced in clickbait.
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3 weeks ago |
exponentialview.co | Azeem Azhar |Erik P. Hoel
Hello, itâs Azeem. What a week itâs been. OpenAI's servers are âmeltingâ under the weight of their new image model, while Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro raises the bar with a 40-point ELO improvement in the Chatbot Arena. But youâre here to get some distance from the headlines and make sense of whatâs going on â so letâs get into it!Todayâs edition is brought to you by Sana â do real work with AI.
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4 weeks ago |
theintrinsicperspective.com | Erik P. Hoel
An awful personal prophecy is coming true. Way back in 2019, when AI was still a relatively niche topic, and only the primitive GPT-2 had been released, I predicted the technology would usher in a “semantic apocalypse” wherein art and language were drained of meaning. In fact, it was the first essay ever posted here on The Intrinsic Perspective.
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1 month ago |
theintrinsicperspective.com | Erik P. Hoel
The rules of the memory game are simple. You pick a target memory to find, something you know you’ve experienced, but haven’t recalled in a long time. You must, after all, have had a first kiss, or a great-grandmother, or a childhood friend not seen in decades. The easiest difficulty setting is to target a location. Higher difficulty settings are more specific, like that illicit first cigarette and the dampness of the backyard it was smoked in.
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