I am overwhelmingly happy to take a position on free will for Marcus: You don’t have it, I don’t have it. George doesn’t have it. Will is not the sort of thing that can be had. It is a pattern, a relentless stubbornness in doing. Sent from my Dumb Phone
On Jun 9, 2025, at 2:36 PM, steve smith <[email protected]> wrote: 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? <OpenPGP_0xD5BAF94F88AFFA63.asc> .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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