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- [Archived] Modelling Human Cognition with Five Attributes
- Deception as Information Appreciation and Focus: why society, organizations, and our minds (and human-made intelligence agents) suffer from self-deception
- AI Hype post: how LLM chatbots helped me get a research paper accepted at a very competitive conference over a couple weekends
- Zomboid Brains: Necromancing a Frankenstein Intelligence
- [Book Chapter] Conclusion
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[Reposted from April 2012 in response a inquiry about how multiresolution modelling could apply to human cognition] This is a condensed summary of modelling applied to brains/intelligent systems, that I wrote after reading a report on MRM. I’ve reposted here as a possible useful summary of intelligence/cognition. The report’s discussion was centered around how to…
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. I recently rewatched the Alan Turing biopic, Imitation Games, which ends with Alan Turing’s team not only cracking the German Enigma code, but hiding their discovery from their own military branches and government. The logic is argued as follows: If the English Royal Navy, Army, or RAF, had full access to every decoded German…
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In this post, I’m going cover how I went from being unaware that a field existed (Mechanistic Interpretability, AI Alignment), to getting a full research paper accepted at a conference with a reported acceptance rate of 17% (AAAI 2026), in only four weekends. Readers may ask: Now keep in mind, I was never that productive…
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Industry defectors are becoming increasingly loud that LLMs are not the path forward to human intelligence. What structure in current AI is missing from a human intelligence point of view? In the last couple weeks, a couple prominent AI researchers have voiced their disbelief that LLMs are not the path forward to human-level AI and…
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The primary objectors of the idea that we have permanent limitations of comprehension of the universe and ourselves include the misinformed or confused who seem to be betting short on humanity. They do this by using a honed skillset to obscure and create wonder (that maybe an unintentionally evolved skillset by them, but one that…
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As discussed previously, our intelligence relies on feature extraction and abstraction. This is also true of our language or any of our systems of representation or understanding. We break down the real world into features and categories. This works within scopes. We do this with language, at the detailed and abstract resolutions. We also do…
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Our intuition is often spoken as the hidden part of the iceberg part of our mind, giving us wordless opinions and flash judgments. The fact is our entire mind is an experiential system – experiences and observations (yours or hearing about someone else’s), expand this system and its bounds and even its scope. Any extractable…
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There is a group of people construing human intelligence as an ethereal phenomena. They will criticize any potential attempts at artificial intelligence by arguing that a ‘ghost in the machine’ will still be missing from the most sophisticated machine intelligences we could ever make. I bring this up not because I’m that interested in artificial…
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I’m not a philosopher. Well at least not by degree. I might have a philosophical nature. Oh, also, I once took a philosophy of physics class and dropped it after being frustrated by it. Great story, right? How to quit against a small amount of odds? Let me paint you a picture before you levy…
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‘How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?’ The smiling-faced spirituals, new almost manic positivity thinking types, as well as the liberal forms of monotheism reinventing themselves now in the way of the eastern traditions place high priority on the goal of eliciting the subjective state of happiness or even…
Omar Claflin 