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  • Blaise Agüera y Arcas
    • maximum entropy, active inference hypothesis, both suggest that intelligence is in fact text token prediction
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    • JEHS is "a dear friend". Some digs at Gary Marcus. Back to McCulloch-Pitts
    • ref An error limit for the evolution of language, Nowak, Krakauer et al
    • Embodiment: he seems skeptical
    • Ref: Looped Transformers as Programmable Computers, Giannou et al
    • He thinks people are "pretty much sequence models" but acknowledges that's a rare opinion.
    • Talk about agency image.png
    • Social dynamics means theory of mind therefore modeling self (yes this is obvious but rarely said) Robin Dunbar on higher-order therories of mind. image.png
from Emotion and the Dynamics of Representation Use
  • Blaise Agüera y Arcas has talked of similar things in an AI context eg in Do Large Language Models Understand Us? | Daedalus | MIT Press
    • The idea of having a social relationship with oneself might seem counterintuitive, or just superfluous. Why would we need to construct models of ourselves if we already are ourselves? One reason is that we are no more aware of most of what actually happens in our own brains than we are of anyone else's.

Blaise Agüera y Arcas

20 Mar 2026 - 27 Mar 2026
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