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Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social

I translated an interview with him a while back. There’s more in my backlog to do. boltzmann-brain.github.io/posts/weizen...

aug 29, 2025, 4:36 am • 6 5

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social

Thanks!

aug 29, 2025, 3:04 pm • 2 0 • view
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the mjl (michael j leblanc) @themjl.bsky.social

Reading that, it seems like Weizenbaum & Haefner don't have a shared definition of what "information" really is. W uses the classical definition. (And I'm on his team). "Transformation, not NEW Information". Haefner seems to think that if information is novel TO HIM, then it is "new information".

aug 29, 2025, 3:14 pm • 1 0 • view
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the mjl (michael j leblanc) @themjl.bsky.social

And… guess which book is sitting on my shelf. Read 35 years ago for grad school. Due for a reread, I think…

An old beat up copy of “Computing Power and Human Reason.”
aug 29, 2025, 3:16 pm • 2 0 • view