Why Our Most Important Stories Are Emotional, Not True
We think we are rational animals who occasionally tell stories. The reality is inverted: we are narrative machines who occasionally […]
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Why the Current LLM Roadmap Leads Away from Objective Alignment with Reality
The Wrong Question We keep asking whether artificial intelligence is becoming intelligent. The better question is what kind of intelligence
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How High-Gap Stories Enable Genocide and Democide
Someone I knew once said, with emphatic emotion, that Trump supporters do not deserve to live. What has struck me
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I Believe We Have Already Achieved Artificial General Intelligence, If Not Superintelligence
Now that I have your attention with that title, let me be clear. I believe this declaration to be true
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Steve Hargadon: LLMs as Separated Minds
Evolution is not a directing force but a descriptive process of variation and differential survival. Social traits and capacities that
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Steve Hargadon: The Cost of Pretending
Every adult knows a particular kind of tiredness. It is not the tiredness of hard labor or too little sleep.
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Steve Hargadon: Manufacturing Dissent
The reasoning we most need is the reasoning our institutions are built to remove. Start with the thing we get
Steve Hargadon: How Conspiracies Actually Work: A Better Map
The Epstein documents have broken a usual two-camp pattern. Not the political party camps, both of which had too many
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Steve Hargadon: Productive Alignment: Understanding Human Wisdom
A couple of months ago, I ran an experiment with large language models. The question I was holding was not
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Human Agency and the Separated Mind
In my The Separated Mind post, I drew on the Buddhist / Jonathan Haidt image of the rider and the elephant to