soloist11

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by soloist11 2y ago
There are lots of things we don't know and that's why there is no good reason to attribute intentionality to computers and algorithms. That's been my argument the entire time. Unless there is a good argument and proof of inte
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by soloist11 2y ago
> Formal theories and physical manufacturability are two different things Yes, two different things are two different things. I did not equate them but made the claim that a sequence of operations to construct a chip factory can be speci
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by soloist11 2y ago
> However, “can be viewed as” is not the same thing as “is” Ultimate reality is fundamentally unknowable but what I said about computers and digital circuits is correct. We have a formal theory of computers and that is why we can constru
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by soloist11 2y ago
> If your argument succeeds in proving that computer programs can't have intentionality, an essentially similar line of argument can be used to prove that human brains can't have intentionality either. I don't see why that
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by soloist11 2y ago
> That's not true. To give a trivial example, a set or sequence of numbers is composed of numbers but is not itself a number. 2 is a number, but {2,3,4} is not a number. That's still a number because everything in a digital com
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by soloist11 2y ago
Even with a source of randomness the software for a computer has a formal syntax and this formal syntax must correspond to a logical formalism. Even if you include syntax for randomness it still corresponds to a proof because there are cate
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by soloist11 2y ago
I don't know what atoms and chemicals have to do with my argument but the substitutions you've made don't make sense and I would call it ill-typed. A composition of numbers is also a number but a composition of atoms is somet
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by soloist11 2y ago
My point is that when people say computers and software can have intentions they're stating an unfounded and often confused belief about what computers are capable of as domains for arithmetic operations. Furthermore, the Curry-Howard
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by soloist11 2y ago
People like that are often schizophrenic.
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by soloist11 2y ago
> Personally, I'm a subjective idealist, who believes that intentionality is an irreducible aspect of reality. So no, I don't believe in physical reductionism, nor do I believe that algorithms can have intentions by way of phys
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by soloist11 2y ago
It's a vacuous statement. All physical systems are computers because the logic of computationalism is circular. Everything is a computer so there is no meaning in the statement and the danger is that as more people start believing in t
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by soloist11 2y ago
Lying is intentional, algorithms and computers do not have intentions. People can lie, computers can only execute their programmed instructions. Much of AI discourse is extremely confusing and confused because people keep attributing needs
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by soloist11 2y ago
Everything computes in a general sense, even atoms. But one could just as easily say everything is "just" mathematics because all models of reality are mathematical. In general I think it's important to be wary of totalizing
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Global impacts of heat and water stress on food production(nature.com)
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by soloist11 2y ago
All I've seen are pump and dump schemes. What useful strands are you talking about?
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by soloist11 2y ago
What you are suggesting would require coordination on a scale that's almost unimaginable. The effort and coordination required would be similar to wartime mobilization.
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by soloist11 2y ago
The theory of charges has Z/2 symmetry.
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by soloist11 2y ago
So it sounds like LLMs will not achieve AGI.
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by soloist11 2y ago
It's impossible to take these people seriously. They have turned themselves into clowns.
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by soloist11 2y ago
This is a great opportunity to present my own company which is also working on developing not just a super intelligence but an ultra genius intelligence with a patented and trademarked architecture called the panoptic computronium cathedral
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More AI Founders Looking to Sell Startups(bloomberg.com)
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Understanding Yoneda (2013)(bartoszmilewski.com)
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by soloist11 2y ago
What's the failure rate of GPUs over a 10 year period?
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by soloist11 2y ago
Category theory is being applied in all sorts of domains and recently has been making some inroads in ML as well, e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07032
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Feds arrest 2 California execs accused of running giant Adderall scam(sfchronicle.com)
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How Methamphetamine Became a Key Part of Nazi Military Strategy (2020)(time.com)
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by soloist11 2y ago
I had a similar thought the other day about transistors, computers, and data centers. There is a qualitative difference between one transistor and a lot of them packed together into a CPU or GPU but there is no qualitative difference betwee