Archive - Amateur

I’ve spent the last month or so reading the mind-blowing paper by Scott Aaronson titled “The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine”. It’s pretty huge, and…

Sep 25, 2021

Epistemic status: another highly-speculative piece on a highly-speculative topic. One common way modern people often think about their self awareness is…

Sep 6, 2021

Is intelligence enough?

Aug 25, 2021

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