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by HONEST_ANNIE 8y ago
> few useful products (like mortgages). ... and personal loans, commercial loans, transactions and transfers, overdraft agreements, insurance brokerage, underwriting, and reinsurance. Ireland was poor and undeveloped economy during 196
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> How American Elites ... American elites mismanaged their econom.... All that American elites could ... Populism is the rhetoric that puts "honest normal people" against "bad elites". Left populism is poor or middle
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The root incentive to moderate is to keep the government from intervening or preventing people turning against the platform. Government starts interfering and people turn against them when there is a moral panic[1]. In democratic societies
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Here is a slight modification to consider: Skin in the game. If we separate motivation and act as completely as Card suggests, we should separate motivation and personal consequences completely as well. This would effectively prevent hyp
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by HONEST_ANNIE 8y ago
Political action. Effective greenhouse gas taxation is a single thing that could solve the issue with the current system and be efficient. * It would have to be significantly higher than today. * It would tax exported emissions. * It would
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Many youtubers emote (portray emotion in a theatrical manner) the events and issues they narrate. Their work description is simply to be emotionally enthusiastic of whatever happens. If the content of the channel is not deeply meaningful f
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by HONEST_ANNIE 8y ago
One of the interesting aspects Golem reveals is what lies on the other side of transcending superintelligence/singularity. There are more transcending steps ahead and there are branches in the evolutionary tree of superintelligences.
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This was true until Verne's 'Paris in the Twentieth Century' was published. It changed everything. It was Verne's lost novel, written in 1863, published 1994. It was not published because his publisher thought it was to
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by HONEST_ANNIE 8y ago
Golem XIV is deep philosophical take on AGI and singularity in a form of lectures from AGI to humans. "Intelligence is captive element like a wind inside human skull forced to serve humans. Not free." "O chained Intelligence
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by HONEST_ANNIE 9y ago
Ah yes. It's a problem. Writing about complex mathematical subject and providing actual information is very difficult. One article that can be recommended is Terence Tao's excellent article about universality. A second draft of a
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The article provides good links to sources like the 3.5 page Nature article below describing the progress in bootstrapping. Progress Article The conformal bootstrap https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys3761 Na
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Secular scientifically oriented mind considers theoretical physics as a fundamental. Alas, very few can really understand what the high priests at the Institute for Advanced Study are actually doing. Visualizations and animations provide t
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Four Sci-Fi books that get projections right: * 'Paris in the Twentieth Century' by Jules Verne * 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley * '1984' by George Orwell * 'The Space Merchants' by Frederik Pohl
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by HONEST_ANNIE 9y ago
Dreaming may have multiple functions, but it makes sense that the content of dreams serves some purpose. Even if dreaming about survival situations is just marginally useful, differential survival directs dreams towards it. Animals with co
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correct
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He is wrong but he has a point. Computers are currently good at head's up. The ultimate test is playing in full table tournament against players with very uneven skillet. If there is one good player in the table, he will be able to rec
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by HONEST_ANNIE 9y ago
Kasparov says that machines don't have purpose, passion or curiosity. This is typical expression of meat machine privilege. The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID). Feeling purposeful and not feeling purpose is just utility f
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by HONEST_ANNIE 9y ago
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense to the author. Truth doesn't have anybody to answer to." – S. John Ross
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>but I think the separation in the causal chain between condition and response is significant. Term 'free will' seems to be thought terminating cliche. It seems poetic and deeply meaningful but descriptions as yours say it&#x2
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by HONEST_ANNIE 9y ago
Give description of 'free will' so that it can't be replaced with 'chaotic', 'non deterministic' or 'random'. So far nobody has been able to do that.
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Indeed. There is nothing to indicate that human brains have done anything that can't be achieved with polynomial time heuristic search algorithm. Most people who have read the "Emperors New Mind" have been surprised that Penr
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Chain of taken for granted assumptions: Intelligence = consciousness = sentience[1]. [1] sentience defined as feeling or sensation distinguished from perception and thought, or possibility of suffering (mental state sentient subject wants
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Penrose is unique genius. His deep geometric intuition is extremely rare even among mathematicians. He uses his superior geometric intuition to teach physics in the book "Road to Reality" in a level that surpasses even Feynman.
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>People like having a purpose and being part of something greater than themselves. What could be greater than the entire universe? There is also the possibility of complete existential freedom. Freedom to choose meaning can be very frigh
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Creat Filter[1] Hypothesis: The reason why it's difficult to meet technically advanced aliens in the galaxy is because technology brings direct ways to get meaning and satisfaction that far surpasses anything the real world can offer
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Quest: Replace 'Free Will' with the most underwhelming term that is for all intents and purposes synonymous for free will in the discussion.
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Witten: > But I think there probably will remain a level of mystery regarding why the brain is functioning in the ways that we can see it, why it creates consciousness or whatever you want to call it. How it functions in the way a consci