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by goolulusaurs 6y ago
Any advice on how to get better at making predictions?
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by goolulusaurs 7y ago
Reminds me of the opening paragraphs from SICP ( https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/... ) "We are about to study the idea of a computational process. Computational proces
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by goolulusaurs 7y ago
It would go a long way towards making many kinds of blackmail difficult or impossible, which seems like a pretty big upside.
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by goolulusaurs 8y ago
It bothers me that the qoutes in this article are all cut up, in some cases ending when a sentence clearly wasn't finished. It makes it hard to judge what they are really saying here, and I wish the full interview would be published.
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by goolulusaurs 8y ago
Do you think this could end up being implemented in TF and Pytorch?
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by goolulusaurs 8y ago
I do think it is worth drawing a distinction between college and K-12 though. In college students are there by their own choice, and colleges choose who they admit, and if students are paid when they succeed on tests they have a strong and
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by goolulusaurs 8y ago
It is obvious the college education system is flawed just from it's incentive structure. Colleges don't get paid based on the amount that you learn, they get paid based on the amount of your time they take up. Up to a point they e
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by goolulusaurs 8y ago
Shane Legg, one of the authors of the paper, is also the co-founder of Deepmind and it is cited in several of their papers. There are some old videos of him discussing it here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL985E813
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by goolulusaurs 8y ago
Well, this seems to be the definition Deepmind uses: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3329 . And there has been work to establish a quantitative measure of the extent to which an agents behavior is intelligent or mechanical:
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by goolulusaurs 8y ago
Yeah, it is super interesting. I've been gradually working on reproducing it too, mostly as a way to challenge myself and to try to keep on top of some of the cool RL research that has been coming out lately, but I've still got a
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by goolulusaurs 8y ago
The Neural Turing Machine has been expanded upon considerably since that paper, and inspired a number of other memory augmented neural network architectures, including: https://www.gwern.net/docs/rl/2016-graves.pdf
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by goolulusaurs 8y ago
This paper is amazing, and exactly what I was thinking of posting in response to that part of the article. The amount of research Deepmind is putting out is astonishing, and even if you are paying attention it's hard to keep up with it
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by goolulusaurs 8y ago
I'm also curious what your thoughts are on this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10760 As a hobbyist/independent researcher I think it's really interesting to compare the two in terms of the way you mod
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by goolulusaurs 9y ago
Maybe a larger portion of the public would read academic papers if they had access to them.
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by goolulusaurs 10y ago
I don't really think this is necessarily true. If the number of people who have jobs that can be worked remotely continues to increase, and if the possibilities of virtual office space can be realized than cities might become less appe
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by goolulusaurs 10y ago
Magic is real. Look anywhere in the world outside of modern urban areas and you will find people who have experienced it first hand. It is true that every culture in the world has different gods and spirits, but they all have some conceptio
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by goolulusaurs 11y ago
I think it is very plausible that a large portion of mathematics that is not very useful presently could be very useful for problems we have yet to tackle. As science progresses it will be less and less able to make grand unified theories a
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by goolulusaurs 11y ago
That is nonsense. We have have no idea what math will turn out to be useful in the future. To say that it has already turned out to be useless presupposes that we already know all uses we might put it to in the future, which we clearly don&
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by goolulusaurs 14y ago
I definitely agree about lesswrong being a mixed bag, that post you linked in particular was just... painful.
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by goolulusaurs 14y ago
Ribbonfarm is truly top-notch, one of my absolute favorites as well. I also like http://lesswrong.com/ but I think its pretty well known.
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by goolulusaurs 14y ago
I believe we were ignoring the severity of the damage because we were attempting to investigate what mental factors went into making people decide to go on killing sprees. How much damage they did ultimately doesn't affect the factors that
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by goolulusaurs 14y ago
I'm not so sure that's right. We already have a model that works with content like this: research universities. The media content only has to be discovered a single time then it basically stops being scares and can be easily made available
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by goolulusaurs 14y ago
Because in the brain, the hardware and the software are the same thing. To understand what processes the brain carries out would be to understand intelligence.