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Kai Taraporevala

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My writing is informed by my humanist philosophy and physics studies, and my conviction that normative ideas need to be influenced by and remain connected to the findings of science. Any claims about the world must be open to empirical testing.

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Kai Taraporevala

My writing is informed by my humanist philosophy and physics studies, and my conviction that normative ideas need to be influenced by and remain connected to the findings of science. Any claims about the world must be open to empirical testing.

A Tourist Mathematician’s Apologia: Living in a Human-AGI World

Graham Greene described G. H. Hardy’s 1940 book, A Mathematician’s Apology, as the best account of what it is like to be a creative artist. Hardy had many friends, wide-ranging interests that included the game of cricket, and empathy for the less well-off. But it was his creative work in...

Testing the AI Mind

AI Systems Still Can't Reason Counterfactually In 1950, Alan Turing wrote his seminal article Computing Machinery and Intelligence. He suggested an imitation game as a test of whether a computer could think. Today, LLMs easily pass this test. They dialogue with us and write papers. In fact, we need to...