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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
> what the point of life is to the universe Life is the evolution of (increasingly) complex adaptive systems in non-equilibrium state, driven by external energy and enabling a new regime of faster entropy increase, thus faster descent to
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
> We won't know the answer to this challenge for a very long time. This is essentially the "halting problem", or the "principle of computational irreducibility", or whatever equivalent formulation you want to pic
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
What should they do differently were they to realize it's post-Eternal-September?
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
"hide and seek" at 15 - that's highly unusual
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
> "yet it is implemented in the universe"
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
We don't know of anything that is provably not computation. There's not a single proof that "process X is not reproducible computationally, yet it is implemented in the universe". All the statements like the one in the s
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
While Wolfram is a smart guy, I feel like his presentation and writing is rambling and unnecessarily antagonizing to the audience, which always results in personal attacks and snarky comments and other counter-productive off-topic discussio
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
It's infinitely more likely that you're tapping into internal circuits in your brain that are not normally exposed to ping directly, than that you're tapping into secret aliens living in a parallel reality (the latter would r
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
> Do something about toxic supermods I got banned for a year from Armenia sub for criticizing an Armenian politician from the ruling party (who has been involved in a bunch of corruption scandals, including fake companies winning tenders
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
Wait till you find out all of physics is just linear operators & complex numbers
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
That's like asking "but do fires need that much wood", watching a fire spreading through a forest.
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
Prompt: Chess with dice was a spectacle to behold: Chess with dice was a spectacle to behold: a room full of young men and women wearing formal dinner jackets, black orchid-bud neckties, silk shirt, and tails, seated at an oval black-and-
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by 0xBABAD00C 4y ago
Niemcy = Deaf/Mute (as opposed to Sloviane = Word-people/Speakers) This was the old Slavic distinction between people who they could understand, and people who they couldn't.
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
> ... then we all go to heaven and/or the world ends because robots kill us all. Scary and/or overhyped language aside, I don't get why is this such a hard concept to grasp for generally educated people. Humans were a si
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
> Most of the imminent AGI / Singularity / Robot Apocalypse stuff seems to come, with few exceptions, not from practitioners or computer scientists specialized in AI I'm a practitioner at a top company for many years now,
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
Given that ribose is a carb inside larger non-carb structures such as RNA, it makes our genetic code, and us humans as a whole, a nacho by the cube rule. I'm ok with it.
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
Armenian is Darbinian/Tarpinian (Demirjian is the Turkish-Armenian hybrid form). There's also related Nalbandian (farrier / horseshoe blacksmith). BTW, the theory I've heard is that this surname prevails due to survivors
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
Following a scandal revealing he's secretly a citizen of St. Kitts & Nevis. Can't make this up...
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
People just want shiny stories and plausible deniability. It's pretty much subconscious risk management. Then you have people who play the next-level game of exploring this risk management heuristic, hence -- pretty young people with p
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
> Flat earthers are proof that some people will just obstinately believe in complete and utter horseshit. More than "some". I think, by default, we're not protected against mental viruses that travel from mind to mind and
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
> Who thinks they can analyse consciousness into more fundamental elements? I do. Considering consciousness, a property of animals on a planet in a star system, irreducible and more fundamental than, say, quarks and bosons, seems laughab
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
I am not stating anything profound here, but I found that learning math and science (college level and up) has had a huge impact on my quality of thinking. I agree with other posts emphasizing that early life nature/nurture experiences
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
> When that happens go to William James and read Pragmatism, then realize you can just decide what you want to believe based on what is adaptive for you. Now when that happens, also make sure to remember all the adaptationists who stay
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
I think you constructed and bravely defeated a weak strawman. My opinion is not akin to your parents' opinion at all. Everything comes with risk and reward, I was simply pointing out the risks. I never said "the reward isn't
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
> pick an idea that you are 100% sure is true. Not "the Earth is round" but "X value is good." Then search for people who disagree. The risk, of course, is getting convinced otherwise and having to live with that, in
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
I've seen quite a bit of criticism of the Debt book of basically being a giant exercise in cherry-picking and sort of a politically motivated narrative. However, history and economics are topics where neutrality and objectivity of auth
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
There's a fun wikipedia article [1] on various theories of pre-columbian contact with the Americas. Some of these are very dubious, of course, but the Roman fruit bowl from 2000 years ago does look like it contains an actual pineapple,
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
This isn't that surprising at all, we do have historical documents from thousands of years ago that describe beer and cheese production, consumption, and trade. For instance, when Xenophon (2500 years ago) was passing through Armenia,
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by 0xBABAD00C 5y ago
So here's a much more general statement: your identity and your sense of self, your consciousness, your "choices" that build your life's narrative, are all actually a "Potemkin village in case anyone accuses the exe
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Cohomology Fractals(henryseg.github.io)
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