Will Wilkinson
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Will Wilkinson
@wlknsn.xyz
Tech policy and government affairs guy. Ex-Block, Niskanen, NYT, Economist, Cato. Los Angeles / Iowa City
My understanding is that he was quite bright! lol
December 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Ooh! Thanks for sharing.
December 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
LLMs are a specific kind of ML
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Fun update: it worked!
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
They are not nonetheless very useful.
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It’s that cognition isn’t just something that happens in the brain but with our whole bodies in constant interaction with the external world. A statistical model running on a server isn’t doing that.
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I wouldn’t say that they have bodies. They’re physical systems, like everything.
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The most basic is that Cartesianism, broadly speaking, is false. The mind is embodied and embedded in the physical world. Meaning is not in the head. Reference, truth, and rational belief require the right kind of causal relationships to the world.
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Liberal socialism is both the most common and most successful form of socialism.
November 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Music has a formal, non-representational combinatorial structure and genres are patterned subsets of that structure?
November 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM