Gavin Leech
gleech.org/now
Is serial reasoning the product of thousands of heuristics? Is much of the brain irrelevant to problem solving? Is intelligence compression? What lets some of us do hyperpolation?
Location:
New York, New York, U.S.A.
Professional title:
Researcher, mostly AI
What do you do?
I understand how things hang together, wholesale
Why?
I can't help it
What should we read?
"Red Plenty" by Francis Spufford. One of the best living novelists digs into the emotional and technical details of the dead dream of command economies. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2524141468