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by ricraz 8y ago
"State school grads (other than Wharton)" Can't tell if ignorance or top-tier trolling.
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by ricraz 8y ago
As an AI researcher who did a degree in philosophy, I think most of the things you mentioned are pretty irrelevant. How to build an AI with "feelings, sensations, etc" is indeed a mystery, but we don't need to aim for that, w
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by ricraz 8y ago
Agreed, I was also quite skeptical about the section you quoted. It seems like a much more hand-wavey proof than I'd expect to accompany an important result like this. Surprised that it was published (in a journal called Algorithmic Fi
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Proof, computation and truth(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)
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What sorts of functions can deep learning learn well?(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)
1 points by ricraz 9y ago|0 comments
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by ricraz 9y ago
On Kahnemann in particular, I was quite influenced by this series of tributes to him: https://www.edge.org/conversation/daniel_kahneman-on-kahnema...
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by ricraz 9y ago
Which ones? Note that an item being on the list doesn't mean it's a comparable achievement to all others on the list, just that it's above an implicit and slightly vague threshold.
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by ricraz 9y ago
I've received a fair few suggestions on insights in the humanities which I'm currently writing up to add to the post. I considered some of the Scholastics but felt that they hadn't had an impact on modern thought in the same
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by ricraz 9y ago
Hi all, post author here. Thanks for all the feedback. Although the idea of a definitive list would be nice, in practice a lot of it will always be very subjective. I wrote this up pretty quickly, which is evident from some of the omissions
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by ricraz 11y ago
I'm not sure why having a "fair" competition matters. The point of technological progress is to get better outcomes, not to get better outcomes using massively constrained hardware. Of course the latter is useful, but it&#x27