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691.
by drdeca 4y ago
My thought of what "emergent behavior" is, isn't that it is necessarily "unintended", but rather that it isn't really present in the small scale stuff, and isn't an obvious consequence of the small scale s
692.
by drdeca 4y ago
Is your objection to the use of the word "try"?
693.
by drdeca 4y ago
"disneyland without children"
694.
by drdeca 4y ago
?
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by drdeca 4y ago
What do you mean by “actually reason”? And, presumably you wouldn’t have the model generate the graph directly, but instead have it generate code which generates the graph. I’m not sure what they had in mind for the “unusual traffic” bit.
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by drdeca 4y ago
I do think I have a soul, and I don’t think that AGI is impossible. So, I really don’t get why people think AGI is impossible. I mean, I have hope that it won’t ever happen, but not because I suspect it is impossible.
697.
by drdeca 4y ago
In the limit of quality of sequence continuation, there are many wonders.
698.
by drdeca 4y ago
Meaningless seems like an overstatement. My understanding is that the big five is generally better, and has e.g. better test-retest consistency, but Myers-Briggs still has e.g. some correlations with the Big Five, and so it must measure som
699.
by drdeca 4y ago
Utilitarianism is false , but I think it is a very useful heuristic, where I think it being used ( as a heuristic ) more often would probably be beneficial at the margins. There is no canonical way the aggregate utility between persons, an
700.
by drdeca 4y ago
Can you have a relativistic theory which has an electrostatic interaction without the theory also having magnetism? If not, I, don’t see what’s wrong with their claim?
701.
by drdeca 4y ago
My understanding is that any depiction of sex-acts and most depictions of genitals are still against the rules of tumblr (due to iOS requirements?) ?
702.
by drdeca 4y ago
I don’t think the “Chinese Room” is supposed to necessarily be pure lookup. The point is that the person is the only one doing stuff, and they don’t understand Chinese, and so there’s nothing understanding Chinese. This doesn’t at all use t
703.
by drdeca 4y ago
That’s not even what the “God of the gaps” idea is
704.
by drdeca 4y ago
Why is not interacting with EM absurd?
705.
by drdeca 4y ago
Right, or.. Ok, uh, I don’t think one has to really reject empiricism to reject scientific materialism? Or, err, by “empiricism” do you mean like, “support for doing experiments, and keeping track of the results and what models work good to
706.
by drdeca 4y ago
> The missing text problem from NLU is an example of a problem that is thought to be impossible for Turing machines/algorithms but is trivial in most cases for humans. Not thought to be impossible by people who believe in scientific
707.
by drdeca 4y ago
First words aren't always interpreted as referring to the mother. > The further one gets from that original source of comfort, the more complex means they employ to try and return, ceaselessly failing, always repeating the same thin
708.
by drdeca 4y ago
It was presumably a play on the expression, not something they thought was the common expression.
709.
by drdeca 4y ago
I think so, yes
710.
by drdeca 4y ago
I found it helpful. Presumably the “correlation length” is something kind of like “some length where there is much larger correlation of pairs of things at most this length apart, than there is between pairs of things that are much longer
711.
by drdeca 4y ago
I imagine the idea is “should be”, not “is”. I’m going to go check now.
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by drdeca 4y ago
What main like, median predictions (like, consensus views among climate scientists) have been falsified? (That being said: I do think that, provided it doesn’t cause problems, “more humans” is good. I just think you’re wrong about climate s
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by drdeca 4y ago
What’s the difference between “precedent” and “case law”? I had thought that when I said “Though I guess that’s maybe kind of the sort of thing that precedent is for?” that that covered things like citing “Roe v. Wade”.
714.
by drdeca 4y ago
Perhaps we could both give a vague description, and also a precise condition which is to be considered a sufficient but not necessary condition for the vague condition to be true? Such as “must signal within a reasonable time (signaling at
715.
by drdeca 4y ago
I think “equiconsistent” just means that (one can prove that) if one is consistent, then the other is also consistent. Doesn’t mean the collections of things they can prove can’t differ. For a weak example, aiui, a formal system is equicons
716.
by drdeca 4y ago
For any set S which is non-empty, there is an element x of that set. For any set S and any x, the set S * {x} is a function which sends every element of S to x. Therefore, for every non-empty set S, there is a function with domain S, and ra
717.
by drdeca 4y ago
> Computer scientist don't accept noncomputable objects. People who study computability certainly do, and I would think they count as computer scientists.
718.
by drdeca 4y ago
The set of all sets of natural numbers is uncountable, but the set of all finite sets of natural numbers, is countable.
719.
by drdeca 4y ago
There are uncountably many (countably) infinite collections of symbols from within a countably infinite set of possible symbols. The set of finite subsets of a countably infinite set, is countably infinite. There is a computable bijection
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by drdeca 4y ago
I think that is likely too many nines (depending on how you are counting and weighting “use cases”).

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