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by lorepieri 5y ago
Not necessarily, it's enough to have some notion of finiteness of computational resources for the outside, in whatever form they may appear. This is a pretty small assumption as we don't know any system which doesn't behave t
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On Falsifying the Simulation Hypothesis(lorenzopieri.com)
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by lorepieri 5y ago
Any complex computational machine is still equivalent to a laptop machine in terms of what it can compute, so it can always reproduced as a regular physics simulation. Something different could be a machine able to do hypercomputation.
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by lorepieri 5y ago
It would actually have consequences, for instance we would likely not be able to do interstellar travel. Ok, not really mundane, but still. See https://osf.io/ca8se (disclaimer, I'm the author).
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by lorepieri 5y ago
Can you share the references you mention at point 1? Thanks!
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by lorepieri 5y ago
Yes, you need to remain inside the reference class of human simulations, so in a sense there is a bias in where do you want to draw the line of what's a human simulation. But once you do it, the result in not ambiguous.
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by lorepieri 5y ago
I see good arguments for both views. A way to get insights could be discovering an alien civilization math.
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by lorepieri 5y ago
Does science fiction exists? Or Pokemon? In case your view is that they don't, you may argue similarly that math is a human made construct (which happen to work well to describe our universe, but it may be just survivorship bias as we
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by lorepieri 5y ago
I'm working on writing a paper along those lines. I do believe that the answer to "why there is something rather than nothing?" may be: actually nothing is the only thing that exist, but its instability creates our apparent r
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by lorepieri 5y ago
It is actually possible :) (with some assumption on the distribution of the simulations) Complex sims are less likely, so the likelihood of increasing optional complexity of our sim should be slim, for instance interstellar travel. It&#x27
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by lorepieri 5y ago
Even if it's easy, simple simulations would still dominate the space of all possible simulations if the resources of the simulators are finite. So simpler simulations are more likely. ( https://osf.io/ca8se , disclaimer
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by lorepieri 5y ago
Yes, any evidence of complexity (assuming that simpler universes are more likely) is evidence against the simulation hypothesis: The Simplicity Assumption and Some Implications of the Simulation Argument for our Civilization https:/
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by lorepieri 5y ago
These problems remind me of https://github.com/fchollet/ARC "ARC can be seen as a general artificial intelligence benchmark, as a program synthesis benchmark, or as a psychometric intelligence test. It is targeted
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by lorepieri 5y ago
I'm also interested in setting up research institutes. I'm obsessed with knowledge, I've built 2 companies (AI, robotics, Blockchain) and have a PhD in theoretical physics. -The first one would focus on Automation, UBI and AG
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by lorepieri 5y ago
I agree with this 100%. The most effective UBI is providing water, food, shelter and all the other essentials + some cash for extra, where the cash part can be small. As the time goes on and our society gets richer, we would include more th
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by lorepieri 5y ago
In few decades there will just not be enough jobs in which humans are more convenient to employ than robots and AIs. Up-skilling is just delaying the problem we will face when there is not enough offer to match the demand for jobs.
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by lorepieri 5y ago
Nice overview, I'm an utopian. :) I'm trying to speedup the transition to a post scarcity society, currently building a company to automate food prep.
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by lorepieri 5y ago
Perhaps we could guarantee life-income, so potentially 40-60 years of UBI. This would be expensive and slow, but it would provide the real UBI experience. Restricting this to a small group of people (100-1000) could make it viable financial
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by lorepieri 7y ago
Battery is the biggest problem of IoT, this could be a tipping point.
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by lorepieri 7y ago
What if there was a tax on honking? Like 0.1 cent for every honking. With advanced enough car technology I see this as being a real thing.
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by lorepieri 7y ago
Let's not lose hope!
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by lorepieri 7y ago
See here https://cuervopropertyadvisory.wordpress.com/2014/01/24/is-t... This also match my personal experience (my girlfriend is from there). The other side of the coin is that they are on average much happi
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by lorepieri 7y ago
Well, actually there are infinite ways of modifying the equations and still have them compatible with current observations. Check out for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F(R)_gravity but there are many more exam
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by lorepieri 7y ago
Can you provide some references on "General learning is uncomputable"? Thanks.
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by lorepieri 7y ago
It is a big loss of your time and nobody will give you back that one. I suggest you to use your time in non zero-sum games, something that can create value for you and society. Now that you have some saving you can definitely afford it. The
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by lorepieri 7y ago
If you don't have time for your obsessive interest, then it's not really obsessive after all. A maximally obsessive person would have neglected distractions from his obsession.
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by lorepieri 7y ago
Wow, that is sick!! Thanks for sharing.
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by lorepieri 7y ago
On a (somewhat) related note, I'm working on face recognition with homomorphic encryption, therefore without compromising the user privacy. The bold goal is the first privacy preserving videocamera. If you find this interesting, I woul
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by lorepieri 7y ago
Thanks for sharing. I'm working on face recognition with homomorphic encryption, therefore without compromising the user privacy. The bold goal is the first privacy preserving videocamera. If you find this interesting, I would love to
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by lorepieri 7y ago
Thanks for sharing.

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