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Neil Gorman

Neil Gorman

Neil Gorman is an assistant professor at the Aurora University School of Social Work, and a practicing Lacanian analyst, and a maker of podcasts, newsletters, & other sundry things.

📍 Near Chicago http://neilgorman.com

AI & Abduction

Earlier, I posted about this earlier today, but here are some more really interesting observations from Peter Coy's essay on AI in the (paywalled) New York Times opinion section on how AI uses a process called abduction when it produces responses to what we ask it/prompt it

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Nick Cave & The Red Hand Files Referenced in this episode: * The Read Hand Files post I read out loud. * Nick Cave (Wikipedia) * The Botman's Call (Apple Music, Spotify) * The Murder Ballads (Apple Music, Spotify) * Faith, Hope, & Carnage (Amazon)

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Carin & The Arc of a Life Referenced: In this episode, I read two short text sections from the book Carin by Kathleen Jamie. Contact: You can now email me your thoughts, reactions, questions, criticisms, concerns, etc. Just email from78 at surplusjouissance.com

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The house of tomorrow In this episode, I discuss the process of aging and retroactively recognize that you've moved from dwelling in the house of tomorrow. Referenced: The Prophet, On Children, by Kahlil Gibran

AI & Kids

This paragraph from Peter Coy's essay in the (paywalled) New York Times opinion section is just great. Computer scientists are continually surprised by the creativity displayed by new generations of A.I. Consider that lying is a sign of intellectual development: Children learn to lie around age 3,

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Massive Talk Training In this episode, I talk about ways a person could (if they wanted to try it) engage in massive talk with other people.

Conversation

In The Conversation section of the New York Times (alas, paywall), Bret Stephens reflects on "the efforts on college campuses to revive the dying art of conversation, as a remedy against angry campus politics." He says: conversation for the purpose of learning rather than scoring points isn’t

◎ Arbitrage | 2 Things

It has been some time since the last time one of these got posted/sent out, but I have found two things I want to share. |1| READING (blog)—The Red Hand Files is an epistolary blog of the musician/artist Nick Cave. The posts are Cave's response

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Why do a podcast about this? I continued to explore questions that came up during the last episode. Why am I making a podcast about the subjective experience of time? * Why focus on the subjective experience of time? * Why do so in the form of a podcast?

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We know that time is limited... In this episode, I talk about what it feels like to know that time is finite.