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JieJie
4y ago
From footnote 19, a definition of an unbounded problem: "This gives us an unbounded problem instead of a large finite one. It is just like hoping for an algorithm that you could feed a bunch of data into and then be rewarded with the b
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I'm not in the know, but what little I know of science history tells me that entrenchment is a regular occurrence in the sciences, going back to Copernicus and Co. I suppose capitalism has fueled it to one extent or another. Depending
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It seems to me that we over-value our own sense of consciousness to the point of mythologizing. Blake Lemoine suggests that LaMDA's consciousness is more akin to that of an Octopus' hive mind than our familiar human-style self-ana
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“The remaining probability was distributed over 01 and 10, which should not be a part of the Bell state. As we discussed before, this phenomenon is due to errors inherent to the quantum processor. As the backend technology improves we expec
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What a great video. Thanks! Professor Tong specifically talks about the subject of this article (LHC coming up with bupkis), but five years ago. Seems like he may be being vindicated a little here.
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One assumption people seem to be making is that sentience is a binary: either one has it or one doesn't. It's possible that there are many levels of self-awareness, some which we would recognize and some which we would not. There