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by meroes 4y ago
Sometimes I think this about huge swaths of human discourse. How we’ve formalized computation and think about it, large branches of philosophy going back to Plato and Aristotle. For example, math has continued to be unreduced to any other t
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by meroes 4y ago
I had the Fiat 500e in the US. Amazing little thing but 80 miles is so limiting in the US.
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by meroes 4y ago
If only so it lessens some of the bad behavior I’ve witnessed. My cousin has been investing most of his paycheck in Bitcoin for several years. He also thinks Tesla Wall Batteries will mine crypto soon and “broke into” a private event Elon
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by meroes 4y ago
Please explain why this is different than the first machine calculator. There’s already been semi Turing tests on Twitter for DALLE and it “passed”.
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by meroes 4y ago
The billions of images and its software determine its outputs right? Is there the same analogy for humans? I don’t think so. It’s much harder to imagine a deterministic story of how we developed set theory for example. Nothing empirical fo
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by meroes 4y ago
If you think this stopped discussions about abortion or freed up legislative time I seriously question your sincerity. Now we get 50 states making their own laws and congress is now voting on it and probably will be a topic for congress mor
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by meroes 4y ago
Is this the the “mirror of reality”? How does it respond to the view we can never fully escape our representation of the world?
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by meroes 4y ago
“The human mind is not qualitatively different than sufficiently complex software”. Just no. Nothing AI researchers are building has subjective experience.
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by meroes 4y ago
Interestingly QM is also the theory of the very large. Entanglement is not attenuated by distance while gravity is. Also in aDS spacetime (closed rather than open topology, not our known universe) new observables would come into play which
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by meroes 4y ago
This is scary when applied to consciousness to. How will we ever understand what makes consciousness from within consciousness?
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by meroes 4y ago
He does call for a radical reformulation of which math to study, as he wants to avoid some issues of arithmetic, infinity, and incompleteness. Maybe his discrete, computable mathematics (which is merely alluded to) is the temporary step ba
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by meroes 5y ago
What do the survivors deal with though? I recently had an injury that required surgery and occupational therapy. My entire limb was a sad, useless appendage for months mostly due to immobility and how it reacted to pain. I can’t imagine the
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by meroes 5y ago
My understanding of cosmology and astronomy is there is an inherent "ladder", nesting of assumptions, or indirect argument structure. Like, IF the Moon is a sphere, then by the shadows Earth leaves upon it during eclipses, Earth i
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by meroes 5y ago
Einstein is a great example where his intuition served him well for most things, but not quantum mechanics. And it’s not his fault. He was worried spooky action at a distance was opening up physics to be nonlocal, which he feared would ruin
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by meroes 5y ago
Conservation of what and for whom? In England the hunting land was for the royalty. Anyone caught in royal hunting grounds was severely punished and probably executed for hunting.
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by meroes 5y ago
When those Chinese consulate calls were first going I got one my cell and a few minutes later on my hotel phone. Really weird.
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by meroes 5y ago
The goal posts move because society evolves. Why aren’t encyclopedias, deep blue, or the internet already smarter than any of us? They are an no one cares that they are. We just use them and move on. That’s not what society finds interestin
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by meroes 5y ago
100% thank you for saying it.
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by meroes 5y ago
3. The public becomes interested in the art. Hasnt happened for AI yet.
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by meroes 5y ago
Do we really think people are going to visit museums or AI generated images one day? Maybe even further in the future when we build museums to educate the public how AI first began and fill it with chess AI and medieval rabbit knights drawn
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by meroes 5y ago
You really think we are all going to be visiting museums with AI generated art one day?
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by meroes 5y ago
That a single museum hasn’t taken up this or something similar as an exhibit is telling. There is no story worth telling. The context of seeing artifacts from another era of humanity is very elucidating. As is hearing the story of an artist
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by meroes 5y ago
To me this a problematic viewpoint. All these formalisms are not meant to be models of the world. I’d even argue for anything to be accepted as a formal system it must be far removed from taking stances on reality.
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by meroes 5y ago
Not the angle I’m going down. I’m purely talking about don’t confuse how to engineer a formal system with ontology. That is the hype about formal systems. They are formal, they do not model the world!
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by meroes 5y ago
Okay but no formalism (formal system) should take up the purpose of metaphysical or physical ontology. That is a very clearly a mistake.
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by meroes 5y ago
Here’s something I don’t get about Wolfram and insisting on a computation-like underbelly of the universe. Computation is built on the idea of Turing machine. But what is reading the tape in Turing’s analogy? A human! The tape and Turing ma
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by meroes 5y ago
How can you explain appealing to these “unreal objects” (real numbers, set theory, arithmetic) * does* help science? (Effectiveness maybe) I see you are also a non realist about science. But even the methodological naturalist (one who takes
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by meroes 5y ago
Empiricism is autoreliable. And is perhaps the only thing that is. It continually reconceptualizes our understandings and produces its own reliability. See how things like the indifference assumption of statistical mechanics is now empirica
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by meroes 5y ago
He also claimed/“proved” there were no hidden variables possible in QM even though de Brogile had one already and Bohm would soon show his version (which was very similar). He also claimed human (and possibly) animal consciousness were
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by meroes 5y ago
I think a 100 years of now 17-decimal accuracy is fine. Maybe we do need a Copernican revolution. But how many areas of physics and science can we say that? A lot. I think for sure the idea of measurement as a passive activity revealing pre

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