- Participants debated whether “fake intelligence” is a contradiction, invoking Daniel Dennett’s view that the brain is a collection of ad-hoc tricks and heuristics rather than a unified, “true” intelligence.  
- pasky offered to run prompts through GPT-3 for the channel and noted that the model was trained on Common Crawl, WebText, and other large web corpora; kanzure requested a private API endpoint, but pasky warned it might violate OpenAI’s terms.  
- Discussion turned to the possibility that most human cognition is “fake” 99.9 % of the time, operating on shallow heuristics except for rare moments of deeper reasoning.  
- fenn highlighted a Twitter user claiming to have extreme ventriculomegaly (missing much of the cerebral cortex) yet normal cognition, linking to a brain scan image; kanzure followed up with two peer-reviewed cases: “Brain of a white-collar worker” (Lancet 2007) and a 2018 Frontiers in Human Neuroscience volumetric MRI study of severe ventriculomegaly.  
- The exchange framed these cases as natural experiments on the minimal cortical volume required for normal intelligence, with interest in recruiting such individuals for further study.