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Bad Metaphors and Artifical Intelligence(dmreedy.com)
1 points by dmreedy 7y ago|0 comments
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by dmreedy 7y ago
A real bummer. For me, the PH-1 was the only truly beautiful current-generation phone out there, since Windows Phone shut down. I can live with a not-so-great camera, especially if it means I don't need a camera wart. With an OLED scre
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by dmreedy 7y ago
I agree that there has been some impressive progress on NLP lately; am curious what you think the corresponding improvements in white collar jobs have been, though? Genuinely asking! Or do you think they are mostly yet to come?
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by dmreedy 7y ago
I don't, except by the weak negative; I feel that lack of strict regulation creates a predatory, cruel, socially violent mess, which feels less desirable to me. Not to imply that the banal evil of a bureaucratic mess is not a bad thi
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by dmreedy 7y ago
Just for the record, I didn't mean to sound like I was happy about that point :). A more generalized system of recourse is an interesting idea, but I'm having a hard time imagining (and likely the fault of my own imagination) so
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by dmreedy 7y ago
Indeed so; and not just government, any bureaucracy of sufficient size. To take a bit of a pop-sci angle, then as soon as you pass Dunbar's Number. A video essayist I follow on youtube had a bit of a discussion about this, about bein
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by dmreedy 7y ago
I don't mean to imply AlphaZero is not impressive; it surely is. Nor do I mean to imply that any of these advances aren't impressive. I do mean to imply that "closed-world games with well-defined rules" is a relatively s
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by dmreedy 7y ago
> On the high level, there is no "chess AI", "go AI", "image classification AI" and "dexterous manipulation AI". These are all sides of the same coin, that gets significantly better every year. On
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by dmreedy 7y ago
For what it’s worth, back in the day, when they were actual tools, Rolexes and Breitlings didn’t quite cost what they do now.
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by dmreedy 7y ago
I agree that there's always going to be bias. I'd go one step further, even, with your comment about most important works being too difficult. Instead, I'd posit that most important works have a bias in and of themselves. An
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by dmreedy 7y ago
I'm always reminded of David Macaulay's Motel of Mysteries . The great white porcelain sarcophagus, heart of the sacred inner chamber.
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by dmreedy 7y ago
I wonder how much that has to do with those incidents being (relatively) small, isolated shocks to an otherwise mostly stable, mostly "peaceful" system. Some combination of the government not being "used" to dealing with
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by dmreedy 7y ago
Yeah, I've switched over almost entirely, to Aleppo soap or olive oil soaps from Greece (which seem to not have the laurel oil present in Aleppo soap), and am very happy. Skin feels a lot less taut and dry than it used to, to give an u
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by dmreedy 7y ago
I'm not sure what makes you think that? It's a short story that circulates on this site from time to time, about the very process you describe, how a technology goes from unimagined to perceived as necessary
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by dmreedy 7y ago
This comment really put me in mind of Gentle Seduction https://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
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Itinerarium(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by dmreedy 7y ago|0 comments
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by dmreedy 7y ago
Philosophy absolutely has lots to say about intelligence, much of which is mutually contradicting. There are a lot of different models out there, based off of varying levels of cleavage to various priors, that all seem to have very little r
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by dmreedy 7y ago
Absolutely, but that's not the interesting part. The problem boils down to the fact that any kind of formal proof system is only "truth-preserving machinery"; that is, you can't get out something "truer" than w
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by dmreedy 7y ago
There is indeed. It's called Formal Logic, and the broad class of philosophers who have attempted that program you describe are usually referred to as "Analytic Philosophers". They haven't made a ton of progress (I mean
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Bad Metaphors(dmreedy.com)
1 points by dmreedy 7y ago|0 comments
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by dmreedy 7y ago
This would be a very good paper if it were titled, "What makes general AI hard", and it didn't try to make any claims about uncomputability. Beyond the somewhat useful collection of some of the prickly points of whatever it i
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by dmreedy 7y ago
I had a professor who gave me another favorite quote of mine: "It's worth being pedantic at least twice in your life" I think the ideas are related.
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by dmreedy 8y ago
I'm not sure that argument is a complete route of the strong (or at least, stronger) hypothesis. The conscious creation of new words is often done using fusions or appropriations of existing words, per Lakoff's Metaphors . Over t
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by dmreedy 8y ago
Indeed not, hence why I named them separately. I'm alluding specifically to the combination here, where the mind is a purely mechanical thing that is a function of its inputs. Which makes a concept like "self-control", as a m
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by dmreedy 8y ago
I'd go one step further. There are two models vying against each other here; Free Will and Materialist Determinism. We often try to believe in both at the same time, and it causes all sorts of dissonance in comprehension and expression
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by dmreedy 8y ago
The criteria certainly are impossible to judge currently. Which makes your assertion that the field is 'progressing' strange. I think there's a lot of merit to remembering the last time we got this excited about a given model
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by dmreedy 8y ago
If there's one lesson to take away from our history of studying the brain, the phenomenon of human intelligence, and the halting 'progress' of AI, it's that it always seems as easy as you propose. At first.
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by dmreedy 8y ago
Perhaps something operational like, "We will marry robots" is measurable. But "outpace human intelligence"? We're arguably incapable of measuring human intelligence right now, much less artificial intelligence, much
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by dmreedy 8y ago
I disagree. I think his rhetoric feeds the 'we already understand it' mythology around the nature of AI technologies, and worse the state of our own understanding of the system they claim to model, and directly contributes to the
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by dmreedy 8y ago
Agreed. My pet theory is that it boils down to how superficially accessible AI is. A conversation about AI is kind of like Bikeshedding, except no one realizes it's actually a conversation about the Nuclear Power Plant. Everyone&#x

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