Tag: Ludwig van Beethoven
Life’s History and the “Ode to Joy”
The history of life can perhaps be likened to a collection of different musical themes. In Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the four beginning notes are the theme.
Arguing About Taste with Large Language Models
When Large Language Models aspire to the literary genius of James Joyce, what could go wrong?
ChatGPT Is Becoming Increasingly Impressive
Yet I continue to maintain that human intelligence is qualitatively different from artificial intelligence.
Shaw, Scientism, and Darwinism
George Bernard Shaw’s positive criterion by which to measure and ridicule folly and vice was fatally ambiguous, eclectic, and inconstant.
Determinism: A “Bizarre Position” Held by Scientists “with Great Confidence”
If it’s true, then all one says or thinks — right or wrong, true or false — was determined some 13.8 billion years ago.