red75prime

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   by red75prime 8y ago

   > We programmers write halting programs with great regularity. Making any program halting program is trivial: add executed instructions counter, halt program at some value of the counter. Proving that an arbitrary program halts is an ent
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   by red75prime 8y ago

   I just say that there's no introspection in existing networks. There's no part, which can take the weights of a convolutional part of a network and images of a certain class, and then output confidence score of the convolutional p
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   by red75prime 8y ago

   They classify patterns, not their own ability to classify patterns.
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   by red75prime 8y ago

   > they actually can freely introspect their thought process as part of their thought process. Do you mean that they can in principle? I don't know existing systems, which can inspect their own weights and output a vector of confiden
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   by red75prime 8y ago

   We are verifying the results of our opaque brain processes. We cannot yet verify that our explanations of those processes are correct.
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   by red75prime 8y ago

   I were, unfortunately at 3 years old I wasn't interested in computers much, and I didn't have the means to get MIT papers (or any recent papers, or the knowledge that such papers exist for that matter) even when I developed intere
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   by red75prime 8y ago

   > colors are single dimensional Light is a mixture of different wavelengths, so, in a sense, it's infinitely dimensional. People's perception of light is usually three dimensional. > maybe not even really mappable to any con
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   by red75prime 8y ago

   I though about such things from when I was about 7 years old. But I'm probably not spiritual enough. I perceive that the observer is subjective counterpart of brain's mechanisms, which move the focus of attention, and brain's
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   by red75prime 8y ago

   Disclaimer: it's my take on free will and it's probably not backed up by prominent philosophers (I haven't checked). While your body exists in the physical world, you as an intelligent agent exist in probabilistic distributio
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    > The grid absorbs solar and wind interment nature just fine without much in the way of storage Not so fine, judging by [0] (page 57): "Ontario has committed to install about 2,500 MW of solar capacity in both its 2010 and 2013 Long
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    At least you can hope that upcoming updates can fix it.
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    A group of persons can do many more than a person can do, even with relatively low bandwidth interconnections (speech, text, diagrams, gestures), coordination problems, and economics that has to waste resources on members' incentives (
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    Sorry, misread your question as "So what if the brain is not just matter?"
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    OTOH, we have phones, which are telephone, TV, radio, notebook, phone book, calendar, calculator, computer, compass, GPS, camera, video recorder, sound recorder hybrids. I'm not sure why do you think that algorithms for solving differe
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    Some of those we cannot control or mitigate. There's, therefore, no point in preparing for them. And neither of those can have a goal (or unfortunate subgoal) of destroying humanity, which goal they will pursue with superhuman persever
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    > Stuff needs time to happen and you being faster than stuff won't be any help after a while. Yeah, another problem for superintelligence to tackle, while it waits for stuff to happen.
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    > to create sentience The goal is to create AI that can solve any problem a human can solve. Whether sentience is a necessary side effect to that is an open question.
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    In the argument the cat represents humanity, which is being manipulated by a superintelligence. Humanity is not a single organism, so you can pay a group of people to do some things for you.
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    If there's no god who prohibits connecting immaterial parts to anything but human brain, then it's a technical problem.
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    I can't help but take a stab. Argument from cats. Remembering that the cat represents humanity: $5 for a group of neurons which will make the cat sit at this point (which happens to be at the entrance into a cat carrier), then $5 for m
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    That's quite impressive setup. I've used programmable calculator with text storage capability for my chemistry exam. I was correct that I will not need chemistry knowledge in all my life.
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    Ask me if I think that the syntax of Chinese language feels..., well, like anything at all (punctuation marks are western influence).
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    Natural languages don't usually convey precise set of instructions to be executed, or target a system that has no common sense, situation awareness, and other human traits. The purposes of natural and computer languages are quite diffe
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    That's a look of purely holistic vision of the world, "collection of parts" is not included.
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    It is low-backgroud steel([0]), not no-backbround steel. Potassium-40, for example, is a naturally occurring radioisotope. See Banana equivalent dose ([1]). [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel [1]:
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    > poison our ocean for millennia On global scale it negligibly increased ever-present background radiation. It's not a good thing, but far from poisoning.
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    For me people work unnervingly like neural networks, except for cases where stimuli have gone through slow sequential processing by the entirety of brain computational resources, we call consciousness. Cached responses, for example. A quest
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    Rust version has 10% of lines marked as `unsafe`. Programmers need to make 10 times more errors per line to introduce the same number of errors that are considered unsafe in Rust (memory corruption, data races, double frees, deallocated mem
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    It has runtime as in "C runtime", that is the code which runs before and after `main` and the code of standard library. It doesn't have runtime as in "Java runtime" (or "C# runtime") that includes the code
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    by red75prime 8y ago

    Approximations to AIXI are computable.