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by _wire_ 2y ago
#In a Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong franchise on the outskirts of Phoenix, Rat Thing number B-782 comes awake. Fido is waking up because the dogs are barking tonight. There is always barking. Much of the barking is very far away. Fido
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Feynman Messenger lectures: brilliant! Feynman on curiosity: lovely! Feynman on Manhattan project: fascinating! Feynman on cargo cults: funny! Feynman on bongos: cool! Feynman on quantum electro-dynamics: incomprehensible! (to me). Feynman
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> I see measurable productivity gains amongst devs when using CoPilot and other AI completion tools. Great. This capability has nothing to do with "intelligence." You are fact-checking a transformer and you find that the effort
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> Would a superintelligence reach the conclusion that humans are a cancer on earth that must be destroyed? Does that seem intelligent? According to the imitation game?
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> If powerful drives can be encoded in to a sapient organism The article says nothing about this. Is anyone demonstrating sentient synthetic life? This idea has nothing to do with the technology at hand. But my point is definitional rega
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This article could have been written by an AI. It leads with a begged question of God, and goes on to summarize conventional definitions of "intelligence", for which the preferred definition happens to also to be begged with the t
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> The classic story here is that of an AI system whose only—seemingly inoffensive—goal is making paper clips. According to Bostrom, the system would realize quickly that humans are a barrier to this task, because they might switch off th
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The power of science is to find evidence to the best explanations, not to get people to believe something. If the learner does not or cannot connect explanations to his lived world, the method is irrelevant as it is dogma. To copy dogma is
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>> If you throw 1000 dices, is it possible to get all one? Yes. Is it likely? Not at all. > That's literally as likely as any other possible outcome. ??? If you want any outcome, they're equally likely. But the prev post
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> It can be tricky to discuss AGI in any precise way because everyone seems to have their own definition of it and ideas about it. You have just echoed Turing from his seminal paper without adding any further observation. > ...you are
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// COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE By A. M. Turing 1. The Imitation Game I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" a
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This article circumscribes but fails to navigate the imperatives of life which sanity must regard as beyond the purvey of reason. The question writ large but not asked is "What constitutes medicine?" versus all the other ways that
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Ridiculous. The board can't even regulate itself in the immediate moment, so who cares if they're not trying to regulate "long term risk". The article is trafficking in nonsense. "The company’s trajectory has been n
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> I know they mean well, but if you have a filesystem you want to preserve on questionable media... don't interact with (mount) it until you've made your copy. A further clarification of your point... If you are a wearing a for
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> Tools like ddrescue have the option to first read a disk's filesystem metadata to build a map; and then use that map to only bother to read used sectors, skipping the unused ones. I don't know how many versions of "ddres
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by _wire_ 2y ago
> Hey front-end folks, just a quick note. Never ever ever ever ever mess with my browser. It's not yours, it's mine. I'm letting you use it for free to render your bloated sites. This edge is a greatly under-acknowledged a
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by _wire_ 2y ago
That's a very insightful and peculiar observation. To riff from your thought, play is evidence of endogenous programming for exogenous adaptation that expresses (works out) reactions ahead of the need (fitness). Play is behavioral echo
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> There's a obvious problem with solar as a lighting solution: you also need good batteries. Or networks of mirrors. My thinking gets stuck on the observation that before petrol, literacy after dusk was powered by the wax of bees an
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I'm ignorant on the topic, but will observe that ultimately a block is a hardware construct for precisely such reasons as error correction. The way you've formed the question, it sounds like the answer will be no. But maybe there&
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Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I follow your thoughts towards ET, and offer that Spielberg has already realized an epic treatment of the theme: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, in which he develops the idea of corporate society and da
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Also see Richard Rush's movie The Stuntmam (1980) which deals with the themes of PKD entirely within the realm of modern movie construction !
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PKD's novel is misunderstood as a result of the movie. This novel and his work in general were less interested in trying to know ascertain who's a robot, and more interested in why one thinks he's human. The movie was made to
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The history of Adobe RGB was partially a mistake, according to Wikipedia-- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_RGB_color_space or maybe better to say it was an error of convenience. Adobe engineers had plans to harmo
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I find the existence of the "narrator" to be utterly debasing of the thought experiment. Apply Dennett's deconstructions to the author and ask yourself why are you interested in this thesis of indeterminacy of the self when y
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Then you got my gist: That's how I feel about this Dennett tale. Why did he choose this idiom, why does his thesis seem to betray premise? The thesis being there's no me there, the premise being the narrative authority of the tale
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This point inadvertently exposes an aspect of information management which is sorely unaddressed and inadequate to purposes of understanding within a commonwealth: That situations conflict which are already well understood to history are re
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Dennett's life-long MO was the appeal to reason to the exclusion of mystery. In my early mid-life, facing a chaotic world of gross conservative christian religious dogma, his posture felt agreeable to me because it seemed to offer a p
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Bulldozing the mind 101
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If philosophy is the art of forming questions, this article is pure philosophy. I am trying to think like the author. Buy I don't know why virtual memory is separable from memory protection: one necessitates the other. Aren't call

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