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by gizajob 5y ago
Can you point to a paper or website that contains this function, described in full? Yes, electromagnetism no doubt, but while we can postulate a function, we still don't have the function, and will somehow have to write it down for it
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by gizajob 5y ago
Where does the brain get its inputs from? These computational models are based on an ontology where the brain is an isolated box separate from the universe, which is only one of the many philosophical outlooks argued over. For example, most
1593.
by gizajob 5y ago
Sorry to be pedantic, but there's no such thing as "wattage" it's just power, measured in watts. For that 12 watts, the brain is extremely efficient at inference, ie. although computers can beat us a chess, a computer ru
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by gizajob 5y ago
We've had technology like poetry, art, and music for thousands of years, and yet no symbolic description of the feeling can contain the feeling of what it's uniquely like for me. Even though we could try and model the brain, say,
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by gizajob 5y ago
I think of this as the "30-years-away" problem. Strong AI has been 30 years away for some 70 years now. It's just that this time, Kurzweil, Bostrom, et. al. are saying "no, really, it is this time".
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by gizajob 5y ago
You could also anthromorphize an AI and suggest on day one it will go into a deep think, and then ask "how do I know I'm not being deceived by an evil Daemon?" and get itself into a deep epistemological crisis before announci
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by gizajob 5y ago
Nick Bostrom is also an egotistical grinder, who couldn't programme a microwave.
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by gizajob 5y ago
You realise the biological brain runs on about 12 watts of power? There is simply no way an AI running on semiconductors will approach this even in 100 years, so efficiency is probably the wrong word to use.
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by gizajob 5y ago
How can one turn the sinking, horrified feeling when one loses a love into a function? Or describe in terms of a function, the blissful wonder of being in the arms of a lover? An issue I have is the that there seem to be profound limitation
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by gizajob 5y ago
ROBERT! Your website crashes Chrome on Android. Please fix before reverse-engineering anything else.
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by gizajob 5y ago
Came here just to post this too - My Motorola is now stuck in an endless loop of chrome crashes because it keeps trying to reload this blog and gets stuck every time, even trying to navigate away crashes chrome. Robert - next time you attac
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by gizajob 5y ago
The author really needs to bone up on clear arguments and philosophy - this topic is covered more pellucidly and at greater length elsewhere. I couldn't work out what he was arguing for even after scrolling all the way to the end. Amaz
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by gizajob 5y ago
Philosophy isn't science.
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by gizajob 5y ago
'the camera on the first iPhone' definitely wasn't a 'world class tool'. The camera on the first iPhone was terrible! I had a Nokia N95 at the time, and the quality just blew the iPhone out of the water. The iPhone&
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by gizajob 6y ago
Please, in the name of all that is holy, lets keep football news off HN. If the breakaway league was proposing to run on bitcoin with players contracts based on Etherium and club ownership distributed as NFT smartbeans, then maybe it would
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by gizajob 6y ago
It's like being an overpaid and trendy-haircutted hyena, picking over the final morsels on the carcass of a long dead elephant known as The Music Industry.
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by gizajob 7y ago
That's what I'd call a photographer...
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A Phil/Comp-Sci Pseudokoan
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