MrDrDr

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by MrDrDr 23d ago
Is the purpose of mathematical research to understand the ‘truth’ of numbers? or be the person who find that truth? I think people who are interested in finding the truth won’t care where it came from.
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by MrDrDr 24d ago
Is the true in America? I’m in the UK, and while social isolation, particularly for men is probably worse than it was, I think many, myself included, have at least one person we can turn to in times of crisis. Or am I in a bubble?
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by MrDrDr 26d ago
There is clearly issues about IP, privacy and accreditation and the motives of powerful companies, but part of me can't help but be excited that whatever the method, the result is the genuine progression of human knowledge - we all win
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by MrDrDr 1mo ago
- upvoting sport, its a real mood stabiliser. I agree with all the others in your list and would add music (I sing) as real mood enhancer.
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by MrDrDr 1mo ago
I find Claude language often hard to process and having to wade through these words can be draining. Embarrassingly, I’ve recently caught myself using them in conversations! Do all models have the their own jargon?
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by MrDrDr 2mo ago
I am currently in talks with a philanthropic organisation about building such a platform. To me the challenge is not technical, it's commercial. How can you build a sustainable business model without adds? I'd be interested in peo
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by MrDrDr 2mo ago
I believe I am conscious and that consciousness is a thing. I just don't believe there is a process where 'unconscious' things become conscious. So Panpsychism is a bit of a cope out. It's not a verifiable in any scienti
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by MrDrDr 2mo ago
yes and no. In my opinion, consciousness is not a process (yes I think Descartes was wrong). The 'thing' that is conscious, whatever it is, is the thing that is capable of experiencing the world. It doesn't need to do anythin
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by MrDrDr 5mo ago
> “incompleteness theorems” established that no formal system of mathematics — no finite set of rules, or axioms, from which everything is supposed to follow — can ever be complete.' There is usually a 'not sufficiently complex
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by MrDrDr 5mo ago
I like this distinction, but it would then seem the only 'invention' would be the axioms of your mathematics. There exists numbers (natural, imaginary...), there exist shapes (a point, a line...). All the work from that point on c
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by MrDrDr 5mo ago
> "Even though I can motivate it in retrospect, ChatGPT’s idea to use h^2-dissociated sets to control relations of order at most h feels quite ingenious. As far as I can tell, this idea is completely original." The question tha
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by MrDrDr 5mo ago
Agreed. I see this debate as an active discussion as to what intelligence is, not how it's currently (poorly) defined This is a philosophical discussion, and there is no correct answer, but IMO some answers will prove more useful than
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by MrDrDr 5mo ago
Please elaborate.
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Should AI First Do No Harm?(joelratnasothy.com)
2 points by MrDrDr 6mo ago|1 comments
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by MrDrDr 6mo ago
N.B. The video is from May 2004 (during the Biden administration)
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by MrDrDr 6mo ago
That this was so predictable, is the hardest thing to process. A friend shared this video by Jiang Xueqin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo&t=2s I find this guys hard to take seriously, his logic is erratic an
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The System Gets the Technology It Deserves(joelratnasothy.com)
1 points by MrDrDr 7mo ago|0 comments
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by MrDrDr 7mo ago
I'm not sure UBI would work. But what's that got to do with communism? Communism failed (IMO), because it was incompatible with human nature. People form social hierarchies and like to own property. Would UBI prevent that?
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by MrDrDr 7mo ago
I remember thinking about this when the semantic web was first being discussed. If you think of it from the perceptive of a child, your first 'foundational' words are learned though direct experience. Then while you continue to le
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by MrDrDr 7mo ago
I think it becomes easier with age - but I went through a period where I found it very hard. This book changed the way I thought about things - you may find it helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Mind,_Beginner%2
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by MrDrDr 8mo ago
The other difficulties with older texts is not just the different spellings or the now arcane words - but that the meaning of some of those recognisable words changed over time. C.S. Lewis wrote an excellent book that describing the changin
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by MrDrDr 8mo ago
I also recognise ‘thinking’ as a valuable and enjoyable activity - and have also obsessed about problems for days (even in my sleep)to reach a deeper understanding. But I think the issue here is the impact of AI on just that - ‘understandin
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by MrDrDr 9mo ago
This does not surprise me - and America is a big place, and I'm sure there are areas where Arthur would be seen in a similar light but I've worked in the US and the UK and this type of things reminds me of the phrase 'separat
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by MrDrDr 9mo ago
Thanks for posting - this is really interesting. An idea perhaps whose time may have come. Out of interest (no criticism implied) but do/have you use this tech? and if so what was your experience?
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by MrDrDr 10mo ago
The origins of virtue by Matt Ridley. A good follow up to the selfish gene. Changed my thinking regarding altruism.
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by MrDrDr 10mo ago
IMO: I think there is a helpful distinction to be made between leadership and management. Leadership provides purpose and inspiration. Management provides, coordination and motivation. I’m not saying one person can’t do both. I do agree tha
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by MrDrDr 10mo ago
Thank you for posting! - I was not aware of this.
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by MrDrDr 10mo ago
I think this would be extremely valuable: “We need to focus far more energy on understanding and explaining the basic mental infrastructure of mathematics—with consequently less energy on the most recent results.” I’ve long thought that mo
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by MrDrDr 1y ago
Was not aware of these - thank you for sharing. But I’d be concerned that such organisations will not stand the test of time, from say a sustained period of governmental (on in this case institutional) incompetence. I’d like to see some mec
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by MrDrDr 1y ago
This highlights one of the big problems with liberal democracies - how do you provide efficient (and even innovative) public services? There is no free market for many public services like water (and where there is I’m all for privatisation

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