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Notes on thinking, learning, decision making, and occasionally running. Simple ideas, mostly obvious.

Is AI-produced work inherently (and importantly) different from one that is entirely made by a human, even if we cannot tell the difference?

If you fool me by telling me only halfway through a piece that it was made by AI, I’m impressed. But now I hear it in a new, flat key, and finish the track only to be polite. This isn’t out of some principle: I just don’t find it that compelling or moving and can’t seem to get into it because I know there’s no one there.

The Inventor of the Thinking Machine Didn’t Worry. Neither Should You, by Yuval Avnur.

I do like a good philosophical argument. That said, I also think the students mentioned in the author’s article still have cause for concern.

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