Gemini 4, because someone has to do it

Go functionalism! Rereading Consciousness Explained in the foothills of the singularity is a blast!

Open but critical. ECREE. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”. As a card carrying functionalist, I’m open to this, at least to machine consciousness as a form of ‘access consciousness’, and the latest j-space evidence is intriguing.

@grok is this true?

Perhaps true for many Brits. Not so sure for large swathes of the rest of the human race.

None worse than Left vs. Right Brain nonsense. People are whole brained, and both hemispheres are active in most tasks. Despite the best efforts of neuroscience, and virtually every university, the myth still subsists in marketing.

Queen Genesis

People and businesses have put their trust in Gemini, Google and you, to offer a SOTA model, and now risk losing clients unless moving away from Gemini. When - roughly - will 3.5 pro launch?

Dangerously close to thought police, especially if you use AI discursively as your ‘system 3’ extended mind to think things through… Not smart.

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Keep up the good work Greg; the world needs you.

The Bell Curve cast a long shadow - not much found today in many undergraduate psych courses/text books on IQ, apart from claims that IQ tests are useless.

Canary in the coalmine. Time to turn on the ‘only people I follow can comment’ setting?

You can discount social desirability bias, but not sure you can avoid it unless the subject/respondent doesn’t know they are being observed. Projective techniques are still performative.

The power of (changing) context. The fundamental attribution error is indeed fundamental. We are all cultural chameleons.

We said the same about paper. Vector of bad ideas, bad habits, antisocial behaviour - people with their nose in books rather than interacting with others.

Student IQ scores in US have been falling for over 50 years (at least in college) - Correlation is not causation.

Not convinced? I’ve found this approach; LLMs as conversational thought partners, not cheating tools, as the only solution works in higher ed - but only for those motivated by cognitive engagement. Those open to cognitive surrender will just cheat themselves out of an education…

DISC is closer to astrology the the Big Five

Interesting, primed to adopt the perspective of a psychologist, Gemini 3 Pro suggests Sylvia Plath’s ‘Mirror’.