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by calepayson 2y ago
> popular deep artificial neural networks (lstms, llms, etc.) are highly recurrent, in which they are simulating not deep networks, but shallow networks that process information in loops many times. Thanks for the info. Is there anything
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by calepayson 2y ago
Great summary. Thanks for the links. These are awesome.
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by calepayson 2y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I’ll change it when I’m at my computer.
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by calepayson 2y ago
Awesome post, thanks. I ordered society of mind. Reminds me of when I took "The Philosophy of Cognitive Science" in college. The entire class was on AI. When I asked the professor why, she explained: "You don't understan
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by calepayson 2y ago
Man, this has me grinning like an idiot. Thanks.
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by calepayson 2y ago
> Fantastic speculation here, explains a lot, and has testable hypotheses. Calvin is the man. > For example, there should be a relationship between rate of learning and the physical subcolumns - we should be able to identify when a si
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by calepayson 2y ago
I ordered the book and I'm checking out the website rn. Looks awesome. Thanks a ton for sharing!
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by calepayson 2y ago
Honestly, no idea. I could imagine a Darwin Machine being a "pure brain", as you put it. While we have emotions because our brains built a pure brain atop an existing and messy infrastructure. Or, emotions could just be the subjec
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Darwin Machines(vedgie.net)
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by calepayson 2y ago
I'm obsessed with the idea of Darwin Machines (and I think you should be too). I've been tinkering with the idea in python but I just don't have enough ML experience. If you, or anyone you know, is interested in Darwin Machin
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by calepayson 2y ago
Harari’s book is awesome but I think he gets stuck too far up the hierarchy. Trying to describe culture with stories feels like trying to describe biology with proteins. It gets us most of the way there but also adds a whole ton of complexi
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by calepayson 2y ago
Fire is rad but I don’t see how it explains modern civilization. If most animals are operating on a calorie deficit and fixing this can lead to larger brains then why haven’t domesticated animals evolved towards our level of intelligence?
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by calepayson 2y ago
There’s a professor at St. Andrew’s, Kevin Lalland I think, who has done a lot of work on imitation. His theory is that that imitation is generally useful but without high enough copying fidelity culture won’t develop. For example monkeys h
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by calepayson 2y ago
It all starts with imitation of some sufficient fidelity and generality that seeds a runaway evolutionary process. Language evolved to improve the fidelity of imitation much like how genes evolved pathways to minimize random mutations durin
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by calepayson 3y ago
Humans are unique because we can imitate behavior well enough that a Darwinian process began. Just like the gene, human behavior seeks out niches in the environment, eventually becoming the environment. Unlike the gene behavior evolves much
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by calepayson 3y ago
I’m studying neuroscience but very interested in how ai works. I’ve read up on the old school but phrases like memory graph and energy minimization are new to me. What modern papers/articles would you recommend for folks who want to le
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by calepayson 3y ago
> Go to space Laika does not approve of this message :)
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by calepayson 3y ago
I believe the one truly unique thing humans can do is imitate complex actions with high fidelity. When we evolved this ability it lead to an explosion of behavioral complexity simply because imitated behavior satisfies all the criteria for
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by calepayson 3y ago
I think we put too much weight on intelligence as the factor differentiating innovators from the rest. If we were to clone some great scientists from the past I believe would be underwhelmed. Not because these aren’t brilliant people but be
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by calepayson 3y ago
I'm not sure if this is one of the consensus primary causes but the most compelling explanation I've heard is capillary damage. Red blood cells and capillaries have roughly the same diameter leading to constant friction. Your body