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by ffwd 9y ago
I agree, but I think human knowledge can be represented as either a graph, hierarchy or network of patterns. Like my knowledge of the letter 'A' is a network of connections to patterns 'language', 'english', &#
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by ffwd 9y ago
> But, one's ability to buy things seems to be improved... It's only improved if there is a lot of investment and new / more products coming out. deflationary currency promotes holding on to your money so that it goes up i
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by ffwd 9y ago
Yeah the problem is where would you put in the command to maximize paperclips? Even though deep learning is very powerful, it doesn't contain a utility function. The utility function to maximize paperclips would be some kind of module
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by ffwd 9y ago
> 2. The claims by the Bostrom/Yudkowsky/etc. crowd that an AI intelligence explosion will cause the extinction of humanity Maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong here, but I have a hard time understanding what /an
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by ffwd 10y ago
> I'd argue that we see lots of decentralization on the web. Youtube, Paypal, Facebook, Steam, Reddit, Medium, Github, hell even hackernews - I think the big success story of the internet in the past decade has been the centralizati
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by ffwd 10y ago
Sort of anecdotally, I think the big difference is whether it's voluntary or involuntary aloneness. Even the difference between 1 person and 0 persons to just call/talk to is huge
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by ffwd 10y ago
> if anything it finds out just how ill defined the world actually is. Yeah I hear this but it seems only half-true to me. While for most intents and purposes the world is ill-defined, in another sense the world itself is "100% sig
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by ffwd 10y ago
Yeah that's why I called it philosophical, because the idea is a little more involved, shall we say. I'm not a god of this, so speculation ahead bewarned. In cases that aren't clear cut, you would also need contextual data li
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by ffwd 10y ago
Nah. There is a difference in my mind between creating a 'map' of the natural world, and deciding which actions to perform in that world, and this is all theoretical/philosophical. If one were to do a pure AI type programming
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by ffwd 10y ago
But there should be no ambiguity, with enough data. Maybe that means there will always be ambiguity, but maybe it doesn't, especially not with man-made things and complex natural objects, and also if you can contextualize the data over
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by ffwd 10y ago
> In the real world, most things are in a maybe state rather than yes/no. Not to get too far afield, but I disagree with this on a certain philosophical level. All states are yes/no. All states of all things should result in a
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by ffwd 10y ago
But how does this explain the direct subjective experience that we have through our senses (also called the hard problem)?
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by ffwd 10y ago
> "No privacy" has certainly NOT been the standard. Before the information age, people were more likely to communicate extremely private information in person. The first problem with this is that influence and power in society
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by ffwd 10y ago
This is becoming a super long thread now but I want to say I understand your points, that's why this is difficult to discuss. What I see is that if evidence collection becomes seriously hampered because of strong encryption, then hacki
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by ffwd 10y ago
> The FBI is certainly not talking about only defaults. You are right that considering the whole history of encryption and the FBI, they don't want it anywhere, but as James Comey has himself said, this debate kicked into high gear
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by ffwd 10y ago
a) I don't want to comment on that intercept piece because there is clear bias there and I don't have all the facts. b) I think actually the FBI is mainly talking about the defaults in software, like how Apple enabled strong encry
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by ffwd 10y ago
> You're in fact advocating no private life. I strongly disagree that this position would be good for society. No, I'm not advocating for anything per se, I'm just bringing up opposite points of view. I don't have an
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by ffwd 10y ago
Nobody really knows the correct answer and I think that's the reason communication is failing between the government and the tech sector. I think we have to realize that some transparency into private lives is needed to have a proper s
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by ffwd 10y ago
These recommendations are pretty crazy (in a good way). All my favorite sci-fi, comedies and thrillers in one list. Impressed. Going to check all the ones I haven't seen
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by ffwd 10y ago
> Like any CDN, if the connection between the edge nodes and your own servers is not secure, a hostile ISP can do whatever it wants with it. Unless I'm mistaken, most regular small/medium sized users of CDN will use a 'plu
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by ffwd 10y ago
> Just a description of how things are, not an explanation. In my opinion it definitely is an explanation. There's a difference between a world where only consciousness exists, to one where the real world exists and consciousness is
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by ffwd 10y ago
The problem is this is self evident and doesn't explain anything. Saying that consciousness is the only thing that exists is like saying God created the universe. Well then who created God? We have to try to explain what all this is th
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by ffwd 10y ago
Can I ask why? Do you not feel like the medium of VR gives you presence and adds something that no other medium does? To me I'm more concerned about the content and if that can be 'solved'. Also if there's no way to fix
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by ffwd 10y ago
I understand what you're saying but I think it's bad to use the term 'economic' growth. There would be potential productivity growth but not necessarily economic growth, since the economy is a human endeavour. AIs don&#x
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by ffwd 10y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you but I'm curious what specific things you feel are 'chilled'? People in western countries can still write whatever they want - anti-government, anti-capitalism, whatever else. In fact there se
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by ffwd 10y ago
> I believe that language is in the process of deeply integrating into the brain and still isn't really done yet. People have tricks that they use in order to increase the compression rate of words. Narrative for instance. But we st
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by ffwd 10y ago
OK but for the most part when Paypal or others close down your account and/or freeze funds, you /have/ done something illegal. You may not care about billions of dollars of movies, games and tv shows being pirated, but the pe
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by ffwd 10y ago
>> Do you mean very detailed? Not necessarily, although I could argue you need detailed sensory organs to have a complex mental model but that's beside the point. What I meant by atomic was approximately what I said above - that
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by ffwd 10y ago
>> "Experience or qualia is what the process of simulation of reality feels like. Or to put it in another way: Conciousness is the process of simulating reality." >> So I'd agree: If you reach a certain complexity
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by ffwd 10y ago
Without sounding too nerdy - music doesn't have soul, brains apply the "soulful" property inside itself to aesthetic signals where it makes sense to do so. Music like all other sensory stimuli is purely aesthetic and lacks de

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