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Curt Jaimungal
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The Last Generation of Mathematicians
Fields Medal winner Jacob Tsimerman is leaving academia for OpenAI's AI safety team, arguing that mathematics is one of the first fields being radically reshaped by AI and raising questions about whether proofs count if no human can understand them.
newsGodfrey-Smith: rhythm, not computation, makes a mind
Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith argues large-scale rhythmic electrical activity — not point-to-point neural firing — is essential to consciousness, and gives computers a very low probability of being conscious.
blogAI Socratic July-Sep 2025 Part 1 — The Genie3 Is Out of The Box 🍌
This time around we’ll have 2 events, one in New York, and one for the first time in San Francisco at the Frontier Tower. We’ll discuss the top news and updates from this blog post using the Socratic
newsTheory Of Everything: The Theory That Your Thoughts Were Never Your Own
A University of Toronto discussion explores whether language is an autonomous entity that colonizes human brains, and whether consciousness itself operates like a large language model rather than generating original thought.
blogAI Socratic Apr 2025
All the AI updates from mar 15 to apr 20. Including GPT o3, o4-mini, 4.1 to Gemini 2.5, the controversial AI-2027 blog post, A2A and more.
newsJoscha Bach: Only a simulation can be conscious
Cognitive scientist Joscha Bach argues that consciousness can only exist within simulations, not in physical systems, because the brain itself creates a virtual reality model where consciousness emerges as a simulated property.
blogAI Socratic March 2025
All the most important AI news and updates from last month (Feb 20 - Mar 15).
newsMatt Segall — Is The Universe Conscious?
Philosopher Matthew Segall argues that current materialist models of reality are as limited as Ptolemy's astronomy, and that consciousness may be fundamental to the universe.