The New World of Lonnie Mandigo

Wrote up MFF meeting notes, sent them out. Located storage containers, limited freezer progress. Bought a smoker from Bass Pro in Springfield—big event of the day. Walked to Suds. Beer with Tim and Brian. Brian gave me ride home. Ancient Civilizations—founding Chinese emperor. Hogan's Heroes briefly.

Trimmed beard. Laundry—Thanksgiving linens. Cleaned basement for Corinne photo shoot. Photo work for Loni—Christmas tree picture of Wolfe and Leland, cell phone challenges. MFF meeting slides. Kitchen cleanup. Filed box of wine. Minecraft Cassia, Minecraft Foo with Leland. Ran MFF Management Team meeting. Walked to Suds—hung out with Aaron, Brittany and her husband, good conversation about meat smokers. Feeling lonely after Thanksgiving social withdrawal, it helped. Uber home. Ancient Civilisations—Chandragupta and Asoka. Hogan's Heroes—Klink as master spy Nimrod, possibly Hofstadter's end.

The Recurring Pattern: How Power Denies Intelligence It Doesn't Recognize A Response to Benjamin Riley's 'Large Language Models Will Never Be Intelligent' Lonnie Mandigo and Claude.ai Sonnet 4.5 Introduction: The Problem of Certainty The debate over artificial intelligence reveals less about AI than about our need for certainty in questions that may not have binary answers. When Benjamin Riley declares that large language models "will never be intelligent," he joins a long tradition of confident pronouncements about intelligence in others—pronouncements that have been consistently, embarrassingly wrong. I've seen no evidence that convinces me AI systems are not intelligent. They may represent a different kind of intelligence—perhaps only subtly different from human intelligence, perhaps more substantially so. But even using humans as the standard, I'm not convinced they lack intelligence. The functional capabilities they demonstrate, the problems they ...