naveensundar

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by naveensundar 1y ago
You are missing the point. Almost all animals care about their offspring. There are other animals with sharp claws. But only one animal does this kind of introspective arguing.
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by naveensundar 1y ago
I think this is not a valid criticism. By this criteria, you can then say many other non-psych conditions are not disorders. What classifies as a disorder other than making life worse for someone? There is no universal book given by a holy
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by naveensundar 1y ago
Logically, your example is not contradictory. 1. We don't know actual prevalence 2. But believe it is low 3. Upper bound in some community is 2% It is not at all contradictory.
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by naveensundar 1y ago
> Eagles see a lot better than we do. Sea sponges live much longer. Dolphins are really good at echolocation; people are generally really bad at it. And yet we keep proclaiming how special we are. As Webb puts it, “Hamlet got one thing r
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An Overview of Logic in AI and Machine Learning(medium.com)
3 points by naveensundar 7y ago|0 comments
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Dry.io wants to democratize software development using AI(venturebeat.com)
65 points by naveensundar 8y ago|82 comments
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by naveensundar 14y ago
Logic is much more than classical AI. The logic culture in classic AI was very ambitious and that was one of the reasons it crashed and not due to fundamental flaws in logic. Formal classical logic can represent all kinds of truths and even
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by naveensundar 14y ago
Can you name one modern rigorous and precise discipline that does not have philosophic roots? We don't know what science today's philosophy might produce in the future.
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by naveensundar 14y ago
Who will decide what has practical consequences?
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by naveensundar 14y ago
The obvious question to ask: Why is that part not shown in the video? Edit: Just watched the video again. The video suspiciously freezes from 11s to 18s. Probably, something inconvenient being edited out amateurishly?
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by naveensundar 14y ago
Why are those not filmed?
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by naveensundar 14y ago
Why did you leave out what was stated just before and after what you have quoted from the study? You seem to be misrepresenting what they intended to show with those numbers. The point of that number was not to show a decline, but rather to
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by naveensundar 14y ago
Sanskrit is quite a unique language and is far from being dead. Modern linguistics owes quite a lot to Sanskrit, e.g. Chomsky's famous notation, thematic roles in semantics, controlled grammar, compositional semantics etc. I suggest the fol
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by naveensundar 14y ago
Why did you leave out Rao's rebuttal to Farmer and friends' unabashed ad-hominmen laced pieces that you have given? Rao's reply in Computational Linguistics: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/rao/IndusCompLing.pdf Also other articles at:
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by naveensundar 15y ago
Yes. You are spot on. I am not able to find readable survey-type articles other than the Wikipedia article on solipsism, but the idea you described is kind of folk-knowledge among really good philosophers of mind. http://en.wikipedia.org
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by naveensundar 15y ago
Thanks! Look forward to reading it. Your other comment on matter capturing consciousness is interesting and insightful.
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by naveensundar 15y ago
Yes, I have skimmed through it. It is a nicely written book, but I think the main premise is wrong. A more nuanced book is Penrose's Shadows of the Mind . It is more rigorous and has a good overview of physics and computer science, but so
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by naveensundar 15y ago
You are right. It is sort of similar to the "other minds" problem. There are no ironclad arguments against a car engine not being conscious, though it seems obvious. You can have more fun of this sort reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by naveensundar 15y ago
Logically speaking consciousness being "produced" from neurons doesn't any sense whatsoever. It sounds magical. What is it that is being produced? Why is not produced in other dynamic systems, e.g. a car engine? Is it complexity which produ
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by naveensundar 15y ago
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+love%3F
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by naveensundar 15y ago
Smooth delivery is overrated. The pauses convey information about the speaker's state of mind about what he is talking. I usually find that such talks contain much more digestible information than surface-level slick talks. Don't change yo
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by naveensundar 15y ago
Well, it is not like they caused genocide or cancer.
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by naveensundar 15y ago
It is okay to break rules once in a while.
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D-Wave Sells First Quantum Computer(hpcwire.com)
10 points by naveensundar 15y ago|1 comments
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by naveensundar 15y ago
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
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by naveensundar 15y ago
I don't know how the lesswrong people came to that conclusion about parapsychology a-priori. This is a problem in Science in general. People use parametric-value-based reasoning (e.g. significance values) to get binary conclusions (existenc
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by naveensundar 15y ago
Please fully read the page you linked to :) "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link.
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Languages Grew From a Seed in Africa, Study Says(nytimes.com)
10 points by naveensundar 15y ago|0 comments
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by naveensundar 15y ago
Thats why the Portuguese/French/British arrived in 1505 and stayed till 1947.
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by naveensundar 15y ago
"Seven sister states - Instant death if you are non-Assamese. " From your phrasing I am assuming you are not Assamese. It's really amazing that you are able to comment from the grave! :D. Regarding TN, do you mean the LTTE which was decimat

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