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by ppod 8y ago
I moved to the UK seven years ago, and have clearly noticed a change in the time I've been here. It wasn't perfect to begin with, but there is now a clear popular attitude against non-British people. It's worse against non-wh
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by ppod 8y ago
Might not be exactly what you're asking, but Landauer's principles that information is physical and necessarily requires some energy to compute is relevant. The 'cost' Bennett is talking about here might be the energy re
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by ppod 8y ago
>no evidence Why do you assume that the null hypothesis is free will?
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by ppod 8y ago
>Say we had a very detailed world simulation running on a massive server farm, like you see in some SciFi stories. Would the characters inhabiting this world have conscious experiences? They consist of complex bit patterns, or more accur
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by ppod 8y ago
I meant that the internal state of like/hate would be a response to something that the laptop experienced. >Please be more clear, as the topic demands it. You are using terms like 'pleasure' and 'experience' that
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by ppod 8y ago
> I am interested in the notion or aspect of consciousness that relates to why people behave the way they do, think the way they think, and are not only largely oblivious to it (the idea of examining behavior and the ~motivations behind
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by ppod 8y ago
Any reasonable definition of consciousness should IMO be a continuum, so your laptop has some consciousness (not very much). I don't think concepts of like or hate are meaningful for the consciousness of your laptop. These kinds of res
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by ppod 8y ago
I am very familiar with the literature on the hard problem. It's remarkable how often people respond to this line of argument by putting the words "feeling" or "understanding" in italics. I don't know what kind
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by ppod 8y ago
Is it really surprising that we have a first person subjective experience? We know that we are incredibly complex things, constantly integrating and acting on very complicated external stimuli. Such a system should have references to its ow
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by ppod 8y ago
Zombie Searle
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by ppod 8y ago
What is the legal situation with this? I mean, forget for a second that illegal things are done all the time, I presume it would be unconstitutional were the CIA or NSA found to be paying google engineers? How big of a scandal would this be
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by ppod 8y ago
>A programmer's job is to get the computer to do what you want, not somehow model the world This so exactly mirrors an ongoing debate in cognitive science. Programmers and philosophers should be talking about representation versus a
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by ppod 8y ago
Thou shalt not bear false witness
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by ppod 8y ago
Yes, my point is that his emphasis on the positive side is an outlier.
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by ppod 8y ago
Here's the part that I don't get (and I would be afraid to admit to this in a non-anonymous setting among my peer group). I completely accept the evidence and the consensus that human action is causing global carbon levels and the
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by ppod 8y ago
>People, writ large, don't want to hear this. Happy stories are far more compelling. Complex stories with unhappy endings, not so much. I don't think this is clearly true. I was pretty convinced by Pinker's latest two book
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by ppod 8y ago
This is a deep topic but one good treatment of is in the works of David Deutsch: https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dgerman/hector/deutsch.pdf
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by ppod 8y ago
I think it's blurring the line between modelling and simulation. You can find an efficient route down a hillside by pouring water down it, or a line of least resistance through a system by passing a current through it. Is the system le
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by ppod 8y ago
'generate' and 'permutate' are more semantically general words. To convey what you mean you have to add "on feedback with no additional input". 'imagine' or 'dream' fully includes this speci
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by ppod 8y ago
I completely agree with you. Dreams, imagination, or hallucination are appropriate terms for an agent working through solutions within its own world-model without using new external input. Would we reserve the verb 'to fly' only f
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by ppod 8y ago
The voice sounds wrong, is the voice AI? I'm sure I've seen better AI voice demos than this --- though the video is impressive.
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by ppod 8y ago
if you mean whatsapp, the content of messages is not available to whatsapp/facebook systems (it's end-to-end encrypted).
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by ppod 9y ago
If this were true, I wonder how many people would have taken the first step toward curing their depression a few seconds before ending their own life.
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by ppod 9y ago
The piece is just overwrought at the sentence level, as in the example below. I think it's partially inspired by trying to sound like an old-style important newspaper columnist, and partially David Foster Wallace. DFWs long sentences a
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by ppod 9y ago
"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Tufte. A pretty book, and occasionally useful as a reference too.
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by ppod 9y ago
I don't 'trust' them blindly, but if information gathering is necessary for such a service to exist, then I think it's better if the service is provided by a democratic agency than a private company. Nobody is forced to
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by ppod 9y ago
It might already be possible for facebook employees to access your information anyway, and if it isn't then a similar system could be set up in a govt run agency. There are many advantages to having a democratic administration run such
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by ppod 9y ago
>the internet has no mechanism to surface bad content on the whim of its users. Don't think this is true, search engines and crawlers can surface anything that users want to find. >All it takes on reddit to surface something terr
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by ppod 9y ago
This is like complaining about the internet because it contains websites that you have no obligation to ever visit.
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by ppod 9y ago
>something silly like define "fire". Could be silly. Could be a veiled threat.

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