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Deep Brain Stimulation in the Basolateral Amygdala Improves Symptoms of Autism(theoreticalautistics.com)
1 points by sawwit 11y ago|0 comments
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by sawwit 11y ago
What about gamma ray bursts? I've read that our position more at the outer rim of the galaxy is beneficial because there are fewer gamma ray bursts compared to more dense regions.
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by sawwit 11y ago
> Lol. I guess we don't need college education as well then, there's education happening in the comments to some extent. We don't need traditional means of news, there's news happening on Twitter to some extent. I co
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by sawwit 11y ago
I will look into Farnham Street's Blog, thanks. > What he's preaching isn't science. I don't buy into the necessity that everything has to be peer-reviewed in the old fashioned way. There is peer-review happening in
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by sawwit 11y ago
Ah I dimly remember that it also has an Occams razor built-in, so the prior probability falls off with the lengths of the strings that describe the Turing machines?
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by sawwit 11y ago
I cannot judge to which degree these theses are bullshit, but I've found LW a tremendously rich source of thinking tools and I'm convinced that reading or skimming a lot of the sequences have improved my thinking. Regarding the ra
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by sawwit 11y ago
The prior of Solomonoff Induction is a uniform distribution over the enumerable set of Turing machines?
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by sawwit 11y ago
What's the cause that follows from that it mostly affects the bottom 50%?
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by sawwit 11y ago
It possibly associates the painting texture with poor skin health.
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by sawwit 11y ago
From a data privacy point of view I would very much appreciate if you added a prominent "delete upload" button to the result page.
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by sawwit 11y ago
I've been using Emacs for 1.5 years or so, then switched to VIM for a brief time period and I fell in love with the way it uses keybindings in a grammatical manner, using verbs, prepositions, subjects and objects. For example, the key
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Private sector parasites (2013)(salon.com)
4 points by sawwit 11y ago|0 comments
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by sawwit 11y ago
Nonsense, please quit that strawmanning. Reducing the pace of consumer technological progress to the benefit of more equality would very likely beneficial for humanity; and it does not imply returning to underdeveloped times (assuming it wo
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by sawwit 11y ago
This is not what OP is saying.
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by sawwit 11y ago
It is much older than this. People have started to come up with all kinds of differentiable structures ever since they've found out that the leaning rule back-propagation of error can be derived using the chain rule in the early 1980
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by sawwit 11y ago
Perhaps this could be used to suppress subvocalization during reading: (1) Look at a lot of people reading the same text, divide in to subvocalizing and non-subvocalizing group. (2) Find difference in neuronal activation patterns. (3) Let s
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by sawwit 11y ago
On the other hand the creative, intellectual minority that wants and needs fast access to information is left behind which is a cultural and economic collateral damage of fashion.
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How brain architecture relates to consciousness and abstract thought(kurzweilai.net)
2 points by sawwit 11y ago|0 comments
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Why We Can't Afford the Rich (2015)(alternet.org)
3 points by sawwit 11y ago|1 comments
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by sawwit 11y ago
I think I would have added "attractor states" and "constraints".
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Electron Orbital Motion [video](youtube.com)
2 points by sawwit 11y ago|0 comments
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by sawwit 11y ago
I never said am certain, I'd assign both cases about the same probability. Since I've already stated why I think the malevolent simple AI scenario such as a paperclip maximizer is plausible, you haven't stated why you find it
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A Theory of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Feature Extraction(arxiv.org)
51 points by sawwit 11y ago|5 comments
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by sawwit 11y ago
Needs are what your neural architecture has evolved to optimize (e.g. sustenance, pain avoidance and affiliation). Goals are the preferred states that the brain learns to optimize its needs (via reward). Values are cultural or (fortunately,
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by sawwit 11y ago
- Biases and heuristics are both priors, but they are particular kinds of priors. The former mostly refers to priors which systematically slightly shift our thinking away from the truth and on which we can only counteract by self-reflection
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by sawwit 11y ago
What are the advantages?
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by sawwit 11y ago
I made that assumption explicitly, actually. To make it worse, it seems plausible that these kinds of dangerous AIs will be the most simple ones to build, since they won't require a lot of goal engineering. Intelligence is a superset o
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by sawwit 11y ago
What the thought experiment tries to get at is that it is hard to predict how a super intelligence will evolve from a set of simple objectives. So far, it appears that a set of objectives is in fact necessary for intelligence. The question
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by sawwit 11y ago
> It ticks me off a little bit when people discount it as "definitely" a "cargo cult" thing. If you don't like it, that's fine. Read more carefully. I merely said that people mostly do it as a challenge or a
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by sawwit 11y ago
I think this one is a waste of time unless you seek a mental challenge. In my experience, it's just not worth getting confused on QUERTY keyboards all the time, and the 5% speedup or so is really not worth it. It's definitely more

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