IIAOPSW

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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I saw that episode and I hated it precisely because it didn't really explore the idea. There was this profound, interesting, thought provoking premise which it completely relegated to the background in favor of an unchallenging police
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Assuming these results hold, I wonder what the legal implications would be. In a criminal prosecution or investigation, can you force someone to just think about the question while stealing the image straight out of their skull? Even worse,
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
disclaimer, what I'm about to say is just vague recollection of content that had already been pre-digested into layperson science news. There's probably a ton of loss in this signal. From what I understand, memory cells literally
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I love how my example was actually Euclid, but everyone's just writing Euler now.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I've been assuming it has to do with a boiler room operation. You know. The sort of dodgy business posing as a whole team with an office based out of a prestigious locale, but its actually just one guy renting out the basement boiler r
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I can't believe its not that Aaronson.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Let's say for the sake of argument Euclid owned a slave. Does that invalidate any of the derivation of geometric proofs from the 5 postulates in Euclid's elements? No. Ok. Does inserting an acknowledgement that Euclid owned a slav
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I assume it works just like Diplomacy. Meaning they both bounce. Unless one of them has support to move by another piece, and that piece itself is not under attack.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Also, they didn't foresee that particular style of mustache going heavily out of style in a few short years.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
No, not everyone asks that. And at higher level courses such as grad school, where everyone there has self-selected to be there out of interest, pretty much nobody ever asks that. Maybe you feel that way, but don't project yourself ont
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I don't get the hate this is getting in the comments. Everything in it rings true. There absolutely is such a thing as non-chemical addictions. Gambling addictions being the most notable. Being a work-a-holic is another. It should come
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
In my collection of things I have a NYC Subway Map* from 2017. This one is special because it was commemorating the "opening of the second avenue subway". At the bottom corner in big fat font is the signature of then Governor Andr
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Why is that a trap. It stands to reason the little man requires only a smaller brain to process the tiny world of the homunculus theater. And the little man in his head is smaller still. At the bottom of the recursive stack is a single neur
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I agree profoundly with everything except "the concept is superfluous". Yes its just a lack of information, or as I say it "entropy is the name of the bits you don't have." That's a profoundly useful thing. You
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Since we are openly speculating, I think the missing ingredient is feedback loops. There is no explicit input side and output side of the brain. Its all just a ball of neurons. There is propagation delay between the neurons. This makes it p
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I have and while its true a neuron does more than the simple on/off of their artificial peers, I'd hardly call it "the complexity of a large neural network internally". There just aren't that many bits needed to r
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
You say I'm completely wrong but then go on to make exactly my same point. Sure theft is possible and yes, a lot of the time the lock is merely a signifier that "taking this breaks the rules" rather than a substantial physica
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
The phrase "keeps honest people honest" is oft said but I think it isn't quite true to the real mechanism at play, which is a system of societal incentive structures. How about this: "locks only keep people out long enou
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I'll be bold enough to make the contrarian prediction. The approach of throwing ever more parameters in the model and ever more transistors on the chip is at best a brute force approach to AI and will likely plateau in effectiveness lo
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
You could pose this question about pretty much any research.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Was there a specific instance you can point out where the Post got its facts wrong, and didn't correct it?
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Sure. The sustained wind of a hurricane could be thought of as a 0 Hz 156 dB sound wave. A more ordinary passing breeze, the sort that we consciously recognize as a breeze rather than as a sound, lasts for around 1-10 seconds. So we could j
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
If the dB is high enough but the frequency is low enough, the "sound" is actually just a light breeze.
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Elaborate why?
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
A brain can certainly memorize and follow a fixed set of rules to update the tape on a Turing machine. Therefore the brain is at least a Universal Computer. Furthermore there is nothing in the domain of sensory-motor tasks that is in princi
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Wow. This is exactly like a speculative comment I was going to write. Only thing I'll add is the relation seems to hold for other animals. The bigger the animal, the longer the wavelengths in both vocalizations and (to the limited exte
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Here's a partial answer. The perception of time always happens at one second per second.
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While I agree there is a large contingent of people who seem to believe every detail of real neurons are necessary to cognition (up to and including the atoms), and while I tend to agree those people are way off the mark about which details
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
The vending machine at intel drops a can of coke. A CPU architect walking by picks it up then inserts his money. The machine is out of order.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I was with you until you said bra and ket didn't do it for you. Its right there in the name bra(c)ket. <bra|, |ket>. Logically equiv to any other notation, but impossible to fudge up. When they are multiplied in a way that lines

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