HeyJaredUnpredictable Patterns
Learning about things, in an unstructured way. Unpredictable patterns is an exploration of a wide variety of different subjects. What they all have in common is that they have some application on understanding the world in new ways, providing new lenses.
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Notes on machines, consciousness and understanding (opens the original)
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On AI and understandingFour sets of handwritten notes (included as PDFs below as guarantee of human written content), 12–15 September 2026, occasioned by Ariel Goldstein and Gabriel Stanovsky, “Do Zombies Understand? A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Exploration of Machine Cognition” (Findings of ACL 2024). The notes are given as written, lightly punctuated..Part I — Notes on AI and understanding (12 September 2026)1. In “Do Zombies Understand: A Choose Your Own Adventure Exploration of Machine Cognit
Unpredictable Patterns #155: Tulpas, dreams and AI (opens the original)
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Dear reader, Unpredictable Patterns has been quiet for a bit, but my intention is that this will change as I return to writing, and learning, more. I attach a PDF of the handwritten essay to make sure you know this is my writing — seems like the right thing to do, and an interesting way of returning to long hand (which I always preferred). Let me know your thoughts! Pick your imaginary friends carefully1. Tibetan magic may not be the first body of knowledge one would consult in exploring issues
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