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by Balgair 3y ago
You'd have to apply an adverse stimulus in under a ~5ms threshold to actions that were 'wrong'. It would depend on the exact task you're trying to do though. That would then cause other areas to potentiate that specific
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by Balgair 3y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Science-Fifth-Kande...
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by Balgair 3y ago
Not really, but it can be involved for some tasks. 'Muscle Memory' is a bit of a complex thing. It's not so much the firing of the neurons, as much as it is the timing of that firing. Your reaction time is at the ~5ms level.
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by Balgair 3y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Science-Fifth-Kande... As Jackson is to E&M, Kandel is to neuro. It's the text.
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by Balgair 3y ago
I mean, such an epic proof would bias one to think that the world is rational. Spending that much time in logic-land would do that to anyone. I think that his assumption that: 'meaning' and 'causation' are the same thing
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by Balgair 3y ago
Thanks for the link! To add to it: I guess this all hinges on what 'positive' means. Christ, I sound just like Socrates now, don't I? Glad it's Friday.
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by Balgair 3y ago
In my experience, the 1% of the time it's not is with DoD clients, specifically with clearance jobs. If the job description does not specifically call out a security clearance level that is required, then they're just covering.
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by Balgair 3y ago
I've noticed that as well. 'Science' isn't something to believe in, it's a testable thing instead. That's kinda the core idea. You don't have to believe in science, if anything science says that you should
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by Balgair 3y ago
Après moi, le déluge -King Louis XV of France to Madame de Pompadour, his favourite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apr%C3%A8s_moi,_le_d%C3%A9luge
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by Balgair 3y ago
I want to echo this point. Our 'salary' was ~$24k/year. So, just enough to stay alive and for a beer on Fridays. If my co-researcher had the coding abilities he needed, he would have left. And, apologies if I wasn't clea
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by Balgair 3y ago
Yeah, we were in a neuro lab. So your patch-clamping, pipette drawing, and tetrode dropping skills were a bit more prized. My co-researcher had never taken calculus, let alone any coding. Trying to get him up to speed with all the various s
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by Balgair 3y ago
My co-researcher was thrown in with the sharks on that project. He'd never even taken calculus, let alone any form of coding class. And this was Matlab, by the by, a language that not only holds your hand, but chews your food for you t
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by Balgair 3y ago
I'd think you'd be positively appalled by the state of code in academia then. It's kludge after hot patch after voodoo incantation. I once worked on a computer that under no circumstances could it be put on the web. It was ru
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by Balgair 3y ago
I get what you're saying, but the reality is that most researchers aren't any more code literate than the average person. Which is to say, they know just enough to make things worse. Hopefully those errors are removed before publi
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by Balgair 3y ago
I know the article focused on the deeper/code-ier aspects of AI. However, I think that it's mundane aspects are going to be huge. I once had a co-researcher that asked for help with his Matlab code. We were in a smell-lab together
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by Balgair 3y ago
Hey, I gotta ask: What's with all the '...'s ?
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by Balgair 3y ago
I have close family that has recently gone on medication for ADHD. So, grains of salt flying everywhere. That person is now a different person than before. Some good things, some bad. I want to stress that my family member is very accompl
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by Balgair 3y ago
Typically the researchers pay the subjects. It's a very active area of research though, and many reward schemes have been used and studied. Derek goes into some of the research here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgw
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by Balgair 3y ago
1) Helped me write a very quick and dirty python program to figure out all the possible combinations of 'little letters after a name' (phd, mba, ms, md, esq, etc) that make up a real word in English. Turns out, there's this w
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by Balgair 3y ago
I mean, I'm not gonna give you the proof there as this is as anonymous an account as I can be. One thing would be to try to look at the wait lists of various daycares. My buddies in TN are at ~3 years. We were at ~1.5 years. And yes, i
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by Balgair 3y ago
Yeah, I have friends in TN that are at ~1k/wk per kid. So 3 kids would cost that much. They only have one kid right now though.
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by Balgair 3y ago
I have friends in TN that are about that amount per kid.
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by Balgair 3y ago
Nah, I disagree. From where I'm at, the little victories do not add up or 'scale' in SV parlance. (Now, granted, I'm focusing on increasing a country's birthrate here, not on individuals. That's a separate disc
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by Balgair 3y ago
Is that 3kE per week? or per year? Because 3kE per week is more in line with US costs
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by Balgair 3y ago
Not OP but: Near me the cost of daycare is ~$500/wk, so ~$26k per year per kid. No discounts for multiple children. Median income in my area is ~$40k per year. There are a fair few state and local discounts for people near the poverty
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by Balgair 3y ago
Oh now, just wait. The arbitrator will be a chat bot too. Chat bots all the way down.
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by Balgair 3y ago
I never really got the difference between the dot and cross products until many years after graduation. And then I only got it because I managed to stumble upon a good video with somewhat decent animations. Like, 2-D, sure, seems easy enoug
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by Balgair 3y ago
Good story! However, I disagree with Yudkowsky in that we only get one shot at playing the game. Here in the mucky real world, we're going to have a lot of chances at playing this game. The interaction between us and the AI is going to
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by Balgair 3y ago
> He has adblock installed, he disabled it because of the terms of service popup by YouTube.
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AI is forcing teachers to confront an existential question(washingtonpost.com)
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