<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Hi all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Apologies for this self-promotion--I hope you are not offended--but I'm posting this to introduce and to invite you to look at my new <a href="https://russabbott.substack.com/archive?sort=new">Substack</a>. For the past three months, I've been writing posts to a personal Substack, i.e., what used to be called a blog. I'm enjoying doing it and have now produced what is probably a representative "body of work."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Like Friam, I write about things I find interesting--which covers a fairly wide range of topics. Most of my posts have been about the election. (I support Harris.) But I try not to write things you can find elsewhere. (A <a href="https://russabbott.substack.com/p/abortion-laws">recent post</a>, including the comments, has discussed some legal/philosophical issues related to abortion laws.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I also write about AI:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><ul><li><a href="https://russabbott.substack.com/p/ai-weather-forecasting">AI weather forecasting</a></li><li><a href="http://I convince an LLM that it is not intelligent">A Socratic dialog in which Clause becomes convinced it is not intelligent</a></li><li><a href="https://russabbott.substack.com/p/stuart-russell-on-safe-ai">Stuart Rusell on Safe AI</a></li><li><a href="https://russabbott.substack.com/p/symbol-processing-vs-subjective-experienceunders">A discussion with Claude about how it is similar to Searle's Chinese room</a></li><li>How <a href="https://russabbott.substack.com/p/wolf-goat-and-cabbage">Claude</a>, <a href="https://russabbott.substack.com/p/wolf-goat-cabbage-with-chatgpt">ChatGPT</a>, and <a href="https://russabbott.substack.com/p/wolf-goat-and-cabbage-with-gemini">Gemini</a> get very confused when asked to solve a variant of the Wolf, Goat, Cabbage problem.</li></ul></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I've also posted on other topics such as </span></span></font></div><div><ul><li><font><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://russabbott.substack.com/p/were-any-of-you-alive-when-oscar">Oscar Levant</a> (are any of you old enough to remember him on the Tonight Show?), </span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://russabbott.substack.com/p/aphantasia-the-inability-to-form">Aphantasia, the inability of some people to form mental images</a></span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://russabbott.substack.com/p/womens-break-dancing">Women's Break Dancing at the Olympics</a> -- because I was amazed that it was an Olympic sport</span><br></span></font></li><li><font><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://russabbott.substack.com/p/todays-post-from-bess-kalb">Bess Kalb, the comedy writer, and why I subscribed to her Substack</a></span></span></font></li><li><font><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://russabbott.substack.com/p/they-all-got-mysterious-brain-diseases">Mysterious Brain Diseases in New Brunswick Canada</a></span><br></span></font></li><li><font><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://russabbott.substack.com/p/desi-lydic">Desi Lydic of the Daily Show</a></span><br></span></font></li><li><font><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://russabbott.substack.com/p/alex-carp">Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir</a></span><br></span></font></li><li><font><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://russabbott.substack.com/p/what-creates-consciousness">A link to a discussion of consciousness with Brian Green, David Chalmers, and Anil Seth</a></span><br></span></font></li></ul></div><div><font><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Unlike most substacks, mine is completely free. I'd be honored for you to check it out.</span><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></span></font></div><div><font><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thanks.</span></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font><u style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"><br></u></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font><u style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:20px"> </u></font><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16.5px;line-height:24.75px"> </span>-- Russ Abbott                                       <br>Professor Emeritus, Computer Science<br>California State University, Los Angeles<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>