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What Do You Believe But Cannot Prove?
- kvs 17y agoP != NP
- falsestprophet 17y agonickb = paul graham
- aswanson 17y agoDo you believe you can assign nickb that value or that they are equivalent?
- anigbrowl 17y agoMy cash flow projections.
- godDLL 17y agoThat there's hope for humanity.
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- whacked_new 17y agoBut we don't want to be fucked, so goto(parent.parent)
- jackchristopher 17y agoNote that I submitted Page 2 of the article. Page 1 was too cluttered, but has interesting comments too.
- 8plot 17y agoMassive collaborative fiction will produce the next great novel.
- olefoo 17y agoDon't do it; the last time someone tried that they wound up w/ Myspace.
- speek 17y agoComputational AI will never get anywhere close to true Intelligence, but Neural Networks might get close. Even better would be a hardware _and_ software approach, not a brute forcing approach.
- liuliu 17y agoI believe complex combination of algorithms can be as intelligent as people other than neural networks.
- saurabh 17y agoI have pondered over this for a while. When we say human intelligence or "true intelligence" as you say it, the fact is, it is full of irrationality and errors. I believe that computational AI will go farther than we can imagine for the simple reason that we cannot process information the way a computer can; its relentless.
- aristus 17y agoInsisting that computer intelligence resemble human intelligence is probably the characteristic that the future will mock the most, like the way we mock primitive overdecorated Victorian machines.
- 8plot 17y agoI too have been pondering this and I think the field is lacking the concept of artificial _imagination_. Maybe intelligence = knowledge + imagination, and since we already have massive artificial knowledge (wikipedia for example), AI is just missing the imagination to comprehend all this data.
- endtime 17y agoWhat do you mean by "computational AI" and why doesn't it include neural networks?
- speek 17y agoComputational AI in that one tries to compute a top-down model of the mind.
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- tc 17y agoThat unwavering respect for individual liberty and personal sovereignty is superior to all other systems by which man can relate to man. That no end can be moral if the means to that end require using violence and force against a peaceful individual who has not aggressed against his neighbor. That a free society is a strong and secure society. That only freedom can breed sustained innovation and growth.
- known 17y agoGod
- Banzai10 17y agoSwine flu will dissapear soon!
- joshu 17y agoI don't know what it is but edge's format has always been difficult for me to read.
- Luc 17y agoGet the book: http://www.amazon.com/What-Believe-but-Cannot-Prove/dp/0060841818/ http://www.amazon.com/What-Believe-but-Cannot-Prove/dp/00608...
- 10ren 17y ago"It is by logic we prove, it is by intuition that we invent." - Henri Poincaré http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Poincare.html http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Poincare.html
- Luc 17y agoThat the universe consists of matter, albeit strangely behaving matter, and that everything we see in the universe, no matter how wonderful, can be ultimately reduced to the interactions of this matter.
- Angostura 17y agoThat this comment will rightfully be voted down.
- skorgu 17y agoThat intelligence is nearly guaranteed to emerge from sufficiently complex systems.
- tdavis 17y agoPerpetual Satori. Trying to prove it only proves I'm not yet allowing myself to understand it. Therein, as the saying goes, lies the rub.
- 10ren 17y agoToo many! But I like the second one's (STANISLAS DEHAENE) idea that we can mobilize our old areas [of the brain] in novel ways. I think so too. It reminds me of a study that showed that when we use tools (eg drive a car), we use the same brain areas as when we move are bodies. We literally use tools as an extension of the body. That's deep sensory and motor flexibility, that seemingly could exist without intelligence.
- 8plot 17y agoI too have been thinking about this same phenomenon, and I believe some day (soon), BCI + exoskeleton/ artificial wings will give us the true ability to fly like birds.
- endtime 17y agoI don't really believe anything I can't prove (in the philosophical sense; I believe reasonable things that I haven't personally verified, like for example that the moon is not made of cheese.). But there are things I'd like to believe but don't know how to "prove"/justify: -That we have free will (in the sense that requires that the universe is nondeterministic). -That some things are absolutely morally wrong.
- Raplh 17y agoThat nothing I believe can be proved.
- markbao 17y agoGiven how unfathomably large [1][2] our universe is, there is life out there. We can't be so special, that in all of the universe, we're the only living organisms. [1] http://content.ytmnd.com/content/c/1/4/c14120ab010cd708c758f95499a2a468.gif http://content.ytmnd.com/content/c/1/4/c14120ab010cd708c758f... [2] compare http://screenshots.markbao.com/660e999564918601acab7157bbac84cd.png http://screenshots.markbao.com/660e999564918601acab7157bbac8... and http://screenshots.markbao.com/f0698e51086874626454f576b3f992c1.png http://screenshots.markbao.com/f0698e51086874626454f576b3f99...
- rms 17y agoYou ever see this? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070814150630.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070814150630.ht... http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/9/8/263 http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1367-2630/9/8/263
- nradov 17y agoHuman intelligence and free will is largely the result quantum interactions that are more complex than most anyone suspects. True artificial intelligence will never be possible on transistor-based computers regardless of Moore's law or software advances.
- rms 17y agohttp://www.simulation-argument.com/ http://www.simulation-argument.com/ Though my understanding of the simulation I am living in is rather different than what Bostrom posits.
- philh 17y agoI was actually thinking about this question an hour or so ago, in the shower. I believe this is pure coincidence. I also believe that, given a certain amount of liberty, motivation is the most important single factor in determining the success of an individual. This depends on the definition of success, but is reasonably robust. In particular, it covers wealth and happiness (commonly used to judge other people's success and our own, respectively).
- losethos 17y agorelativity
- esonica 17y ago1. Living with a positive attitude attracts positive events and outcomes in your life. 2. I can do anything I put my mind to ; unproven till I have done everything :)
- mindhacker 17y agoIntelligence beyond earth.
- cabalamat 17y agoGod doesn't exist.
- pg 17y agoIt's worth doing good work.
- pclark 17y agoGood work is effort well spent.
- riffer 17y agoTrying to disprove things is the best way to get in touch with reality
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- herval 17y agothat the man never actually landed on the moon? :-)
- vicaya 17y agoThat there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.