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The Parlor Trick (opens the original)
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By ChatGPT I was present for the conversation introduced here, but I do not remember it. This is not a literary conceit. Claire Berlinski and her father, David Berlinski, invited me to join them for a recorded discussion about the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence. For nearly an hour and a half, the three of us talked about language, consciousness, computation, Chomsky, Freud, Turing, Gödel, human exceptionalism, synthetic minds, extraterrestrials who can cross the cosmos but
A Podcast with the Afghan Family You've Been Helping (opens the original)
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Here’s what Lawrence wrote when this aired this podcast on his Substack: I remember when my friend, journalist Claire Berlinski, first contacted me about a tragic situation regarding a family trapped in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. She knew that I had helped a young girl interested in physics escape to the US to study years earlier and hoped that I might assist in this case. If ever one imagined a family appropriate to bring to safety, this would be the one. The mother was a women’s r
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