Michel Bitbol: Downward Causation: Concept and Experience
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March 2025
B. Alan Wallace: Three Dimensions of Consciousness: A Buddhist Phenomenology of Mind
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Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake and Ralph Abraham: Education in the New World Order
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Malcolm Ocean: The Parable of the Canoe Sandwich
Two friends in a canoe discover that sharing a sandwich isn’t really about food—it’s about . When people trust a shared “we,” generosity feels natural; when entitlement, guilt, or ego intrude, the sense of togetherness collapses. Healthy cooperation arises when individuals reveal their needs openly and surrender not to each other, but to the possibility of a caring whole.
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GSM8K-Platinum: Revealing Performance Gaps in Frontier LLMs
<!– –> Dataset Code Recently, we introduced Platinum Benchmarks as a step toward quantifying the reliability of large language models (LLMs). In that work, we revised older benchmarks to minimize label noise, such as ambiguous or mislabeled examples, and showed that frontier LLMs still make genuine errors on simple questions. For example, as part of that work we revised a 300-problem subset of GSM8K, a dataset of grade school math word problems, and found that all […]
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Headroom for AI development
(Dylan Foster and Alex Lamb both helped in creating this.) In thinking about what are good research problems, it’s sometimes helpful to switch from what is understood to what is clearly possible. This encourages us to think beyond simply improving the existing system. For example, we have seen instances throughout the history of machine learning where researchers have argued for fixing an architecture and using it for short-term success, ignoring potential for long-term disruption. As an example, the […]
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