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A decade ago, AlphaGo dropped a stone on the board that no human Go master would have played — DeepMind put the odds at one in ten thousand. Lee Sedol, mid-match, took a smoke break just to process it. That single move — since dubbed "Move 37" — has become shorthand for a specific kind of AI event: a system trained by trial-and-error reinforcement learning stumbles into somet...

In his final New York Times column (8/8/2026), Ross Douthat — departing for CBS's 60 Minutes — offers a striking reversal from his usual posture as a confident conse...

[Introductory note: I had MindBlog's Google Blogger account download to my M4 MacMini the entire corpus of Deric's MindBlog from 2006  to the present in to a 27.5 MB feed.atom (~same as feed.XML) which I then uploaded to a ChatGPT project titled "MindBlog Intellectual History.  It took 4 minutes 39 seconds to complete my instruction "Please execute the instructions in the M...

I pass on another interaction with ChatGPT 4o that has amazed me, Below  is my prompt, followed by its response. (Anthropic Claude.ai, Perplexity, and Gemini responses to the same prompt were also impressive, but didn't have the same depth and quality.) 

Addendum to above paragraph: .... But then, I thought to try DeepSeek V3 and obtained a poetic and nuanced resul...

Shalev and Uzefovsky make some interesting distinctions between different forms of empathy. Here is ChatGPT's distillation of their text: 

Empathy is usually discussed as though people simply possess more or less of it. Ido Shalev a...