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The Public Domain Review(publicdomainreview.org)
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Singularity 1on1: Marc Goodman on Future Crimes [video](youtube.com)
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List of cognitive biases(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Most Dangerous Equation [pdf](press.princeton.edu)
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How browsers work(taligarsiel.com)
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by rndn 12y ago
What are the indications that a model of the world does not emerge somewhere in the neural networks of a Q Learning system?
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by rndn 12y ago
Regarding 1, 2 and 4: It certainly seems like a long way to create something like the human brain, but perhaps there are far simpler systems that yield general intelligence. We don't seem to be very good at predicting the invention of
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by rndn 12y ago
Fair enough, but I wouldn't exclude the possibility that AI experts are biased for at least three reasons, namely (1) that they believe in some sort of sanctity of the human mind (like many people do), (2) that they don't want to
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by rndn 12y ago
A lot of experts also deny dangers coming from global warming and other invasions in complex systems we don't fully understand. Scientists in the 1940s also downplayed the danger of the atomic bomb. It's easy to brush away a hypot
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Your spelling is correct. There you go: http://devoutnone.com/tools-for-thinking/
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by rndn 12y ago
Daniel Dennett explains the Flynn effect with a trickle down effect of engineering knowledge to the general public (as an example he mentions percentage calculation). It provides people with more useful thinking tools than what is tradition
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MEMS nanoinjector for genetic modification of cells (2014)(phys.org)
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I'm not too familiar with all of this (perhaps I'm even misinterpreting it), but I think they do realize that it would be problematic to throw population trajectories and interest rates into the same pot. I think the motivation is
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by rndn 12y ago
Here are the slides of a talk on universality that Terry Tao gave some time ago: https://terrytao.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/universality.pd... It's basically the observation that large systems converge to e
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by rndn 12y ago
What's the reason this is being flagged?
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by rndn 12y ago
I know. Initially, I wanted to link the article I've read, however, Google referred me to this slatestarcodex article, so I figured I would directly link to a discussion about it.
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by rndn 12y ago
You may find this interesting: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/24/perceptions-of-required... (I haven't read it yet though, only one of the linked articles in the third paragraph.)
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by rndn 12y ago
Does increasing entanglement explain the second law of thermodynamics?
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by rndn 12y ago
That was my initial reaction as well when I first heard about such an event. What's the point in segregating when there is already a segregation? But then I thought why even bother in which context an event with good intentions is held
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by rndn 12y ago
Yes, of course. The term art is so broad that almost anything humans do can be art. The art of programming is, however, very esoteric and obscure so that your audience is very small. Few people care or are able to care about programming dee
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by rndn 12y ago
I doubt this is a big advantage because you would capture everything that is close to the sensor (dust, fingers, scratches etc.). A lens effectively applies an extreme low-pass filter to these things because they are massively out of focus.
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The assumption I made is that our knowledge can never be perfect, thus it's unknown whether there is a purpose or God in our universe and thus we have to continuously improve our knowledge just in case that there is indeed a purpose or
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by rndn 12y ago
Eww, that just reminds me of the fact that some people are wealthy enough to spend 20K for some status symbol, a sum of money I would try to build awesome stuff with. At the same time, I realize that those who can't afford a MacBook mi
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by rndn 12y ago
Do you (or someone else) happen to know of a good introduction into Bayesian's intuition about the plausibility of statements?
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by rndn 12y ago
Perhaps it's the Bounded Halting Problem which is known to be NPC: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/cmc/lecture6.pdf
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And I understand more and more of it each time it gets submitted which is very satisfying.
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Does anyone happen to know whether philosophers have tried to come up with optimal ethics assuming P(universe exists for no reason) is close to 1 and P(god exists) is close to 0? The best we can do is probably to maximize the life span of o
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A Proofless Introduction to Information Theory(jeremykun.com)
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I'd say either way it's a hasty generalization. I'm very skeptical that there is a high correlation or anti-correlation given how complex people and their social environments can be. In my experience the entire spectrum is co
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Notes on the Work of Shinichi Mochizuki [pdf](maths.nottingham.ac.uk)
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