Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain

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Post by asdftemp » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC

Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain
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Re: Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain

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Post by asdftemp » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC

cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279638, "How art invented humanity"

Re: Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain

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Post by eouw0o83hf » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 7:23 PM UTC

Ah rats, at first I thought maybe Hofstadter wrote a sequel

Re: Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain

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Post by gregschlom » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 8:04 PM UTC

eouw0o83hf wrote: post #3

Ah rats, at first I thought maybe Hofstadter wrote a sequel

It would be interesting to hear Hofstadter's thoughts on the new AI / LLM revolution, actually.

Re: Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain

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Post by forgotmypasswor » Thu, Aug 20, 2026, 8:47 PM UTC

gregschlom wrote: post #4

eouw0o83hf wrote: post #3

Ah rats, at first I thought maybe Hofstadter wrote a sequel

It would be interesting to hear Hofstadter's thoughts on the new AI / LLM revolution, actually.

He wrote an oped about it for The Economist in 2022, but that's feeling like ancient history now:

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/09/02/artificia...

Re: Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain

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Post by millsau » Fri, Aug 21, 2026, 1:51 PM UTC

So.. you could get claude to connect through hermes and just Gauguin itself