JoshCole

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by JoshCole 4y ago
We know regions associated with consciousness in the brain. A recent paper took that knowledge and did something kind of clever - they looked in species where that region was under development. Out of it came a lot of conjecture related to
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Yeah, that is pretty close to what I'm talking about. Coming at it from a different perspective - learning theory - but it seems to be the same overarching idea. I'm extending it a little though to something similar to anachronist
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by JoshCole 4y ago
The type of learning problem where I agree with your point is in something like learning how to classify hand written digits. My point about the continuous nature being unsearchable in practice is about recursive forms - if I choose this po
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by JoshCole 4y ago
- Anthropic bias The algorithms have this tendency. They use counterfactual reasoning to determine that assuming a nash player alike to them is their opponent when making their decisions. Sometimes they don't have a nash opponent, but
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by JoshCole 4y ago
If you apply the cognitive biases model to algorithms which have superhuman performance in various games - like AlphaZero, DeepBlue, Pluribus, and so on - the natural result is to conclude that these models are predictably irrational. The r
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by JoshCole 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by JoshCole 4y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html is contextually relevant to the point you don't understand the meaning of. They are operating in an abstracted representation of the situation related to what Paul Graham talks about
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by JoshCole 4y ago
What are the shared caveats you are thinking of? The caveats that stood out to me were that he mentions: lidar usage inflating costs, targeting ride sharing as path to profitability, and using VC money to fund non-mission goals prior to pro
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Depending on which particular subject you are interested in: - The plugin: https://wielder.victor.earth/Welcome shows the sort of things you can build with Wielder. The github repository for the library is here https:&#x2F
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Amazing work and thank you so much for making something so cool. With regard to feedback. - Some features I'm interested in are being able to install libraries or a recommended path for getting access to libraries via RPC to a less lim
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Seconding this; I switched to Obsidian from Notion and I've been liking it. I also use a plugin called Wielder for it that lets me write codeblocks in my notes and turns my note taking system into a literate programming environment. So
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by JoshCole 4y ago
I consulted Wikipedia and other sources and placed the term they used to categorize these languages beside the language name; it wasn't my bar - I use the collection of symbols I use in the positions I use because others chose to do so
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I'm wary too. Stand upon a language and look down. You get to raw physics as you go down. All the abstractions are a useful reconception, not the reality. Stand upon the language and look up. You see all the unrealized programs that ca
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Yes, I can guess what the code does. But can you guess what this code will do? 1 + "1" Contrast Python (a strongly typed language): >>> 1 + "1" Traceback (most recent call last): File "<
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by JoshCole 4y ago
I'm not so certain. One of his examples of the importance of not focusing on success is actually a success story; he just conflates the path to success with the content along that path. That might sound confusing, so consider two ants
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by JoshCole 4y ago
It isn't "just" propaganda. A success story is fundamentally a communication that relates to positive expected value. Picking examples might make it seem like success stories are just propaganda, but you can trick yourself wi
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Apologies; I didn't mean to imply you thought he was crazy. I was trying to refer to the easy to reach perception of someone who makes a lot of low probability bets as being crazy, but was sloppy in my word choice.
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Belief is a probability. Utility is an outcome propagated backward subject to your value function. Belief times utility minus opportunity cost can lead to low probability events having high utility such that their expected value even after
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by JoshCole 4y ago
You can't cite his example as evidence that the news is required - his example contradicts the thesis. He was informed without needing to pay attention to the news via a friend prior to the event happening. I get what you're tryin
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by JoshCole 4y ago
It? That? The? What are you talking about? It seems hypocritical to imply that meanings ought to be understood divorced from context while your own post doesn't meet the standard.
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Ironically, crossing roads is an example of a time where people tend to feel checking the news is stupid and reckless. The reason being that it calls into stark attention how a lack of awareness of your actual surroundings impacts your sa
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by JoshCole 4y ago
> If he lies He lies; that is very core to my point and it isn't an if. Just fact check him. He lies. I'll save you some time: Here is a link to an article he screenshots: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019&#x2F
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by JoshCole 4y ago
I agree that there are real logistical issues. that is why I really would love to hear someone more honest dig into the details. I think there are real logistical issues here. My problem is that I know that CSS just starts with a narrative
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Well, he names himself Common Self Skeptic, but he has only videos about Elon Musk rather than videos about skepticism. And he just blatantly lies about facts - for example, speed test numbers, service prices, and so on. The thing that make
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by JoshCole 4y ago
Would be really great to hear someone who isn't trying to build a brand around Elon Musk hatred dig into the details. For myself, I've grown very tired of CSS. It is clear he does a lot of research - which makes his tendency to li
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by JoshCole 4y ago
> Could be bad intuition. This actually does seem to be bad intuition to me, because your intuitive explanation isn't being expressed in terms of strategies. You wouldn't want to "attack this frontline unit" but would
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by JoshCole 4y ago
If I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that the rules of Stratego let you apply an abstraction rule which drastically simplifies the game. I agree you can do this. I think this point is remarkably similar to the techniq
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Just to give a sense of hardness, Stratego's game tree is infinitely larger than Go's game tree, because in imperfect information you select a continuous strategy vector over action space whereas in Go you select a discrete action
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by JoshCole 4y ago
You seem to think he doesn't know the facts, but I suspect that he does. He just doesn't care about facts or truth. He is the sort of person who likes to win debates and get hits on people he dislikes. So trying to correct him on
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by JoshCole 4y ago
plq is a messaging geek, a bike mechanic, and a human. They aren't an idiot and after my message they did not defend their source.

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