[FRIAM] Free will—ghost in the machine or just clever wiring?

[steve smith]

On 6/9/25 12:25 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
> Why do you call ChatGPT George? I must have missed it. Or who was George?
>
> We have a bar named George R in Berlin by the way, in the quarter 
> where I live. It is named after George Remus, an American bootlegger 
> during the Prohibition era
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Remus

someone might add an extra R in homage to our own George R.R. (Martin)?

I'm surprised the "George" reference slipped by you, I don't know if it 
was Stephen or Nick who first started making the reference to GPT (any 
version) in that mode, but it was a variant on another personal name I 
think Stephen used for a while with "Gupta" as the surname?   I think it 
was intended to suggest a serious collaborator, but somehow (d)evolved 
to George?  If I weren't so lazy, I'd go dig through the archives... I 
think someone with a higher fidelity memory or implicated in that 
origination will pile on here?

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