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Shannon Got AI This Far. Kolmogorov Shows Where It Stops - Vishal Misra https://medium.com/@vishalmisra/shannon-got-ai-this-far-kolm... This article explains what's missing in terms of two kinds of complexity th
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This article says (Russian) propaganda aims to increase confusion, not foster beliefs. It says that smart people are taken in by propaganda, and the reason we know this is because of vigilant even smarter people. It declares that the Ukrain
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> left hemispheric dominance is the cause of most of the ills of Western civilization Marshall McLuhan was influenced by hemispheric science and Jaynes in his observations about cognition and media. McLuhan never claimed any theories,
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Like Strauss-Howe "generational theory" or astrology, Jaynes ideas are fun to think about. I like the idea of a recent history of human evolution where inner voices were not united as a sense of a common self. I've heard of a
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> “The Turing test started as a way to ask whether machines could rival human intelligence” Turing never proposed this in his paper... He wrote: // If the meaning of the words "machine" and "think" are to
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Ruby and Rails are fine engineering. A language that truly learned from all that came before it, and a web framework built on clear abstractions artfully expressed by the language. It feels good because compared to its contemporaries it&#x2
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This is not a betrayal, it's a tiny study in Hegelian philosophy: the proposition is built from its negation. The ideological aspect at play is that it was known and understood from the start that the temptation was there and a clearly
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Today's obsession with "coding" is remarkable when you observe that compilers/interpreters emit all the code that gets run and this code not only doesn't get reviewed it's effectively impossible to review. If s
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There are so many things an AI can't do... Think of the possibilities! AI whisperer
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It would be far super-weirder-super-odder-super-rarer if these twins had different moms. — Why do we regard a lock that can be opened by any key as a weak lock, but call a key that can open any lock a "master key"?
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Tautologies seem so profound Everything that presents is another form of presence. My immediate favorite Mt. St. Helens exploding volcano. Tmr might be person getting sucked into jet-liner engine, or great white shark at a surf beach.
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>> The permit requires monitoring at the outfall point... The permit is a license to pollute, but go on: >> ...and the company has pointed out that ditch samples can pick up contaminants from sources that have nothing to do w
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You're so right... Had to find a home for my 6 year old kid 18 mos ago when I faced the economic reality I just can't afford him. The situation came to a head when his mom committed suicide after being laid off 3 times. But what a
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Why is the Jensen Effect regarded as paradoxical? Consider the inverse of efficiency, with a most extreme dynamic: infinite resource consumption yielding zero production. Operation is impossible, so adoption is zero, obviously. Otoh, with i
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Bad link; nothing to see here
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Can't AI solve this?
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Can't AI solve this?
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Can't AI solve this? "You're posting too fast" Can't AI solve this? Yes... "You're posting too fast!" Insane... Why do you hate AI Speed the f— up! "You're posting too fast!"
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Can't AI solve this?
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Can't AI solve this?
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Can't AI solve this?
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Can't AI solve this?
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Can't AI solve this?
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-- How happy is the blameless vestal's lot The world forgetting, by the world forgot Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind Each pray'r accepted And each wish resign'd -- Pa-a-a-t-r-i-c-k-k-k!
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What's a real phone number? Any number that can reach a phone? Whitepages listings? Sounds legit.
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> "most people are like children, occupied with aestetics, how idealized/stylised things are. Ethics come next, the actual importance of depicted content, and lastly the spiritual content telling viewers and creators of their
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While hysteresis is expected in cybernetics, I suspect that time in the ordinary vernacular is a construct of the nervous system, and as such it doesn't make much sense to talk about a "brain" being temporally behind because
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tl;dr A case study for the bullshit asymmetry principle in the form of labor polemic.
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Yes the world has always been utterly mysterious. What's cuckoo today is the world is made, and it's not just mysterious it's crazy. The european intellect is looking like a disease, an aberration, like a maladaptation that&#
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I know what it feels like to listen to domain experts with experience far beyond my comprehension, and I can recognize I don't have the baseline to understand what they're discussing. I can nevertheless accept their expertise. But

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