WordofTheHourMay 2

#intellect : sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations

- French: intellect

- German: der Intellekt

- Italian: intelletto

- Portuguese: intelecto

- Spanish: intelecto

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WIST QuotationsApr 30

A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle

I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 1 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)

More about this quote: wist.info/doyle-arthur-conan/8…

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Doyle, Arthur Conan - Story (1890-02), "The Sign of the Four," ch. 1 [Holmes], Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK) | WIST Quotations

I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is…

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WIST QuotationsApr 22

A quotation from Montaigne

We readily acknowledge in others an advantage in courage, in bodily strength, in experience, in agility, in beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to no one. And the arguments that come from simple natural reasoning in others, we think we would have found if we had merely glanced in that direction.
 
[Nous reconnoissons aysément és autres, l’advantage du courage, de la force corporelle, de l’experience, de la disposition, de la beauté: mais l’advantage du jugement; nous ne le cedons à personne: Et les raisons qui partent du simple discours naturel en autruy, il nous semble qu’il n’a tenu qu’à regarder de ce costé-là, que nous ne les ayons trouvees.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Frame (1943)]

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Montaigne, Michel de - Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), "Of Presumption [De la Presomption]" (1578) [tr. Frame (1943)] | WIST Quotations

We readily acknowledge in others an advantage in courage, in bodily strength, in experience, in agility, in beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to no one. And the arguments that come from simple natural reasoning in others, we think we would have found if we had merely glanced…

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N-gated Hacker NewsApr 15
🚨🚨 ALERT: #AI is apparently the grim reaper of #human intellect! According to this article, relying on AI is like putting your brain on a lifetime Netflix binge, slowly eroding human genius. 🤯 But don't worry, there's a sequel coming soon: "How to Outrun the AI #Apocalypse with a #Tinfoil #Hat." 🤖🎩
https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/ai-assisted-cognition-endangers-human-development/ #Intellect #Tech #News #HackerNews #ngated
AI-Assisted Cognition Endangers Human Development

Does AI-assisted cognition threaten human development? Explore the risks of AI-assisted thinking and learn strategies to use AI tools without freezing your critical thinking.

Show threadAlecia Batson (she/her)Apr 11
Human #creativity and #intellect will never cease to amaze me. The interdisciplinary cooperation necessary to the practice of #science illuminates the unique nature of this astonishing adventure that is the lived human experience. 🌎
WIST QuotationsMar 10

A quotation from A. A. Milne

I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking. With equal truth it may be said that a first-rate mind is not one which does not remember the past, nor is it one which cannot forget the past; it is a mind which will use the past but not be ordered by it. It is a mind independent of everybody and everything but the facts in front of it. It is as little perturbed to find itself sharing a thought with the simple as it is elated to find itself sharing a thought with the subtle.

A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940)

More about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/82636/

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Milne, A. A. - War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940) | WIST Quotations

I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking. With equal truth it may be said that…

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WIST QuotationsMar 2

A quotation from John Adams

Our Passions, Ambition, Avarice, Love, Resentment &c possess so much metaphysical Subtilty and so much overpowering Eloquence, that they insinuate themselves into the Understanding and the Conscience and convert both to their Party. And I may be deceived as much as any of them, when I Say, that Power must never be trusted without a Check.

John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Letter (1816-02-02) to Thomas Jefferson

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Adams, John - Letter (1816-02-02) to Thomas Jefferson | WIST Quotations

Our Passions, Ambition, Avarice, Love, Resentment &c possess so much metaphysical Subtilty and so much overpowering Eloquence, that they insinuate themselves into the Understanding and the Conscience and convert both to their Party. And I may be deceived as much as any of them, when I Say, that Power must…

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John TinkerJan 20
For those who are not allergic to language model research, here are catalogued, in a fashion (remember, the machine is a machine, some people never knew, or have forgotten), many of the observations of our best authors. (Plagiarism? you decide, but there it is.)
I see it as a connection between us. Your mileage may vary. The key, in my observation, is to understand what is, and what is not, the large language model. It is not conscious, except metaphorically. It IS metaphorically conscious, because it is, metaphorically, all of us, in the sense that the LLM shows us our patterns of discourse. But that is all. But that is enough. The LLM IS NOT artificial general intelligence (AGI). This is crucially important to understand. AGI is a poorly defined, imaginary concept, not a realized technology. <trigger warning>
https://johntinker.substack.com/p/misunderstanding-as-a-commutator
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Misunderstanding the Chatbot, seen as a Commutation Operator

There appears to be a general misunderstanding that the large language model is a form of artificial general intelligence.

John’s Substack
Observatoire des nouvelles pratiques philosophiquesJan 12

Article # 155 – Que veut dire penser ? Arabes et Latins, Jean-Baptiste Brenet, Rivages poche – Petite Bibliothèque, 2025.

J'ai lu pour vous Que veut dire penser ? Arabes et Latin de Jean-Baptiste Brenet, philosophe et professeur à l'université Paris-I-Sorbonne, publié en 2022 au Éditions Payot & Rivages et en 2025 pour l'édition de poche. C'est de cette dernière édition dont je fais ici mon rapport de lecture. Menu de cette page Couvertures Données au catalogue Texte de présentation (Quatrième de couverture) Sommaire Extraits de l’œuvre Au sujet de l'auteur Du même auteur Revue […]

https://philotherapie.ca/2026/01/12/article-155-que-veut-dire-penser-arabes-et-latins-jean-baptiste-brenet-rivages-poche-petite-bibliotheque-2025/

Article # 155 – Que veut dire penser ? Arabes et Latins, Jean-Baptiste Brenet, Rivages poche – Petite Bibliothèque, 2025.

J’ai lu pour vous Que veut dire penser ? Arabes et Latin de Jean-Baptiste Brenet, philosophe et professeur à l’université Paris-I-Sorbonne, publié en 2022 au Éditions Payot & Rivage…

Observatoire des nouvelles pratiques philosophiques
Open Society NewsJan 11

Dogs with a large vocabulary of object labels learn new labels by overhearing like 1.5-year-old infants | Science

Neuroscientists investigated whether dogs can learn new words not through direct instruction, but by "eavesdropping" on human conversations, much like young children do. The study focused on a small group of dogs "gifted" for word learning (Gifted Word Learner dogs)—animals with an unusually large vocabulary of object names. Such dogs are rare and are not associated with a specific breed or living conditions.
The results showed that these dogs are able to learn new object names by observing their owners' interactions, even when the conversation is not addressed directly. Moreover, the dogs successfully formed associations between a word and an object, even when they were not presented simultaneously. In terms of learning efficiency, some dogs were as effective as, and sometimes even superior to, human children around eighteen months old.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq5474
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