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Articles like these arguing that LLMs can’t be conscious simply because they are “mere formulas” are just a version of Searle’s (debatable!) “Chinese Room” argument. (I don’t think they’re conscious either, but that’s not why.)
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net/microblog/2026/05/1299/","date_published":"2026-05-25T21:55:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-25 21:55","date_timestamp":1779746145,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@jaffe/116637449369014492","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kelshlfgazqhkccvbnd5lb6y/post/3mmphvbdt2n2w","https://www.threads.com/@defjaf/post/DYxwzSUDxyU"]}},{"id":"90888531","content_html":"Well, my Pints of Knowledge talk next month in Brixton on 16 June, is sold out! — so they’ve added an earlier (5:45pm) show. Please come if you want to hear — or ask — about The Random Universe, how we know what we know, and the state of Big Bang as a model for the cosmos.
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net/microblog/2026/05/1293/","date_published":"2026-05-22T14:06:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-22 14:06","date_timestamp":1779458814,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@jaffe/116618710090494317","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kelshlfgazqhkccvbnd5lb6y/post/3mmh5lllmtg2z","https://www.threads.com/@defjaf/post/DYpPaU5FqUN"]}},{"id":"90471737","content_html":"@siracusa@mastodon.social @atpfm@mastodon.social For me, terminal session restore works — it keeps scrollback & restores directories. Sometimes the tab/window title stops tracking. And there’s a (longstanding, unfixed, race condition) bug in the interaction between the shell and the terminal.
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\n
Claude is helping me run some code, preparing inputs, monitoring outputs, &c. It kept making badly wrong predictions about how long the run would take, and told me that it was “doing it in my head”, by which it meant it “was computing the estimate inline as part of generating text”.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jaffe/90234087","date_published":"2026-05-15T14:59:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-15 14:59","date_timestamp":1778857143,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90233482","content_html":"@tedbunn.bsky.social Politically, Kingston is a Borough of London — e.g., we vote for the mayor. It also geographically in the county of Surrey, just to make things complicated. And it doesn’t have a compass-direction postcode.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/jaffe/90233482","date_published":"2026-05-15T14:48:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-15 14:48","date_timestamp":1778856480,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90207899","content_html":"Thanks to some local heroes, the only officially designated river bathing spot in London is a short walk away. Let’s hope Thames Water can keep it clean enough to actually use.
\nRiver Thames in London gets first official bathing spot — The Guardian
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\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net/microblog/2026/05/1278/","date_published":"2026-05-14T10:12:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-14 10:12","date_timestamp":1778753542,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@jaffe/116572405173861112","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kelshlfgazqhkccvbnd5lb6y/post/3mlslkj4env2p","https://www.threads.com/@defjaf/post/DYULw9jFGTl"]}},{"id":"90092909","content_html":"\n The book works. It takes you from the reliability of London buses to the Big Bang in a circuitous but continuous path, leaving you with an accomplished feeling of having slotted parts of the Universe and parts of our understanding into their logical places.\n
Home state in London.
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fandrewjaffe.net%2Fmicroblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F05%2Fimage-1-scaled.jpg\")
@defjaf.bsky.social Much better than “proctor”.
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\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fandrewjaffe.net%2Fmicroblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F05%2Fimage-scaled.jpg\")
Canvas Down! A hacker group has taken down the Canvas “Virtual Learning Environment” across many higher-ed institutions. Great: Imperial will be using Canvas starting next year…
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net/microblog/2026/05/1266/","date_published":"2026-05-07T07:46:14+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-07 07:46","date_timestamp":1778139974,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@jaffe/116532229978027160","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kelshlfgazqhkccvbnd5lb6y/post/3mlaqmwjssv2e","https://www.threads.com/@defjaf/post/DYB6gSTlEza"]}},{"id":"89518951","content_html":"Follow-up to my scientific colleagues: I did this project with Claude code under a Claude Pro subscription, but should I prefer (or try) purchasing API access instead (or in addition)?
\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net/microblog/2026/05/1264/","date_published":"2026-05-03T17:40:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-03 17:40","date_timestamp":1777830022,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@jaffe/116511931892622822","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kelshlfgazqhkccvbnd5lb6y/post/3mkxq6ghem52p","https://www.threads.com/@defjaf/post/DX4rwKtlgqV"]}},{"id":"89504432","content_html":"First proper vibe-coding science/data project with Claude. Hardly looked at the code at all. A lot of plumbing between pre-existing codebases, but also helped me actually understand what was going on. (References to come!)
\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net/microblog/2026/05/1262/","date_published":"2026-05-03T12:51:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-03 12:51","date_timestamp":1777812718,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@jaffe/116510753804540448","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kelshlfgazqhkccvbnd5lb6y/post/3mkx7gp6vtu2n","https://www.threads.com/@defjaf/post/DX4Jd0BFIFM"]}},{"id":"89372676","content_html":"“Workers of the world &c!…”
\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net/microblog/2026/05/1260/","date_published":"2026-05-01T09:13:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Andrew Jaffe","url":"https://andrewjaffe.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F6a2a454191fa75d4114ed05836a0b924%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"jaffe"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-01 09:13","date_timestamp":1777626788,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://Mastodon.social/@jaffe/116498653917694825","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kelshlfgazqhkccvbnd5lb6y/post/3mkrtichhwo2e","https://www.threads.com/@defjaf/post/DXypT-nFCaJ"]}},{"id":"89098787","content_html":"If you’ve read my book The Random Universe—about how scientists use models and probability to make sense of the cosmos—a short Goodreads review really increases the probability that other readers will find it. Even a sentence or two makes a difference.
\nhttps://andrewjaffe.net/the-random-universe
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\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fandrewjaffe.net%2Fmicroblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F04%2Fimage-4-scaled.jpg\")
Still time to come see me talk about The Random Universe in Oxford tomorrow night, Tuesday, 21 April! Epistemology! Probability! Physics! Cosmic tensions!
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\n(Tasted ok, but a bit dense.)
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fandrewjaffe.net%2Fmicroblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F04%2Fimage-3-scaled.jpg\")
There will be a “70 Up”, completing Michael Apted’s magnificent series of 7 Up documentaries! Watch them ASAP, if you haven’t already. (From The Guardian: Asif Kapadia to direct 70 Up, last chapter of influential ITV documentary series)
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As someone who owes his passion for science, and his career, to early glimpses of the Apollo launches, I hope that Artemis II is just as inspiring today.
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@help ok, that’s weird. It is in my version of the jsonfeed (and rss). Any (wordpress? Hosting?) settings that could somehow affect this?
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