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Re:Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain by eouw0o83hf on Thursday August 20, 2026 @03:23PM (#49378973)
Ah rats, at first I thought maybe Hofstadter wrote a sequel
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Re:Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain by gregschlom on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:04PM (#49379516)
It would be interesting to hear Hofstadter's thoughts on the new AI / LLM revolution, actually.
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Re:Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain by forgotmypasswor on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:47PM (#49380073)
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...

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