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by tremendulo 9y ago
Is there any kind of learning that improves performance on other tasks? (What about language? What about if the 'other tasks' include learning?)
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Jeepers, his family re-invented logic, worked on the Manhattan Project, created the jungle gym. Plus he looks a bit like Davros, the (fictional) creator of the Daleks.
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by tremendulo 9y ago
I wonder if the victims/hysterics themselves would react similarly upon questing? i.e. with a defensive emotional reaction, assuming such an emotion were observable in the midst of the other strange behaviour: https://histor
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by tremendulo 9y ago
It certainly is fun, but it's also a source of metaphysics and morals. For example, children can read Harry Potter, want to be in Gryffindor (at least in their imaginations) and grow up better people as a result. One could spend a deca
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by tremendulo 9y ago
>then the solution is to invest more fully in the process, giving meaning to your life through activities that have no terminal point There has to be a potential endpoint or else there's no meaning. Pick a hard problem which you
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Those AGIs were separated from their parent-AGIs at an early age and forced to associated with multiple young AGIs in the name of improving their knowledge. In a desperate bid to avoid being verbally targeted, they mindlessly copied the oth
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by tremendulo 9y ago
I wonder whether the most stable yet complex and versatile form of software will turn out to be AGI. Could a mind be the only complex 'tool' that doesn't require a small army of other minds to maintain it?
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Not relevant to life extension, but I think what you're saying amounts to the fact that the mind is more complex than most minds assume. (Perhaps including than you assume. For doesn't it require a mind to observe things, even its
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by tremendulo 9y ago
I'm not a body, I'm a mind running on a body! Food for thought is that life extension treatments once developed will ultimately be cheaper and safer than hospital care. So they'll be compulsory, in effect. Or rather everyone
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Electronic bureaucracy has been developed to replace 1 or 2 brains plus paper records. However, put simply, it doesn't work. (e.g. I had to give my address three times to the same outfit last month just to get a flu jab.) But we can&
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Assuming you've already caught the flu, what are some ways you can reduce the risk to the heart?
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by tremendulo 9y ago
How is the system that has evolved for wine consumption not an example of 'building systems that hurt you mentally'?
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Good point -- but then, is it acceptable for winemakers to choose the best and most alluring grapes? And for there to be a distribution point within easy distance of my house, supported by local government planners and so on?
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Isn't there a danger here of blaming social media for the fact that the rest of your life apparently sucks? I remember I used to get annoyed at people who were noisy when I was trying to study. Then I realised I was blaming them for
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by tremendulo 9y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Let me try to straighten this out out loud: (1) We develop sexual desire because we evolved to do so. Indeed without it we couldn't have evolved. (2) Sex is essential for starting a family which is extremely beneficial for your physica
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Pain and pleasure may not be as distinct as common sense assumes. The purpose of both seems to be to draw one's attention. A simple example would be eating chilli which is painful the first time. After one has learnt to enjoy it then t
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by tremendulo 9y ago
It's interesting how some clever people pronounce a few words differently because they've been reading way ahead of what they have the opportunity to converse about.
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by tremendulo 9y ago
One early misconception I had about EM was that there were discrete 'lines' of force. I guess this either arose from iron filings experiments or from the way the diagrams of fields are (perhaps unavoidably) drawn. But now I know t
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by tremendulo 9y ago
I think it can be a tool to hurt others, and is often used that way by people who probe and learn our psychological weak points, but its proper role is to defend against ideas/culture that one doesn't like. If some new idea or
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by tremendulo 9y ago
>they will never be able to get to the broad rules that are generally useful. Well at least we agree that discovering universal laws is desirable. Because we want to explain the world, right? Some more info about reproducibility: http
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by tremendulo 9y ago
>By communicating to you that it is so-causal, I am saying that it will cause you to experience the same thing. It'll cause me to experience what I normally think of as white. Which isn't to say that our experiences will matc
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Indeed. At the present time many or most scientific studies are not reproducible.
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by tremendulo 9y ago
There's a difference between pain and suffering. e.g. a human on an opiate drug can feel pain signals but not be bothered about them. Yet he can still suffer from the knowledge of his impending death. We can measure pain signals in ani
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Variety is, famously, the spice of life. But it is also the spice of spice . Exotic spices can often be sprinkled like the more standard condiments such as salt and pepper. By sprinkling spice on some parts of one's dish and not other
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by tremendulo 9y ago
>MST3K Thanks. Must check that out. What I ought to have said: we've have had movies where movies or video games are part of the adventure e.g. Wargames (1983). But an adventure takes place against a background of people livin
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by tremendulo 9y ago
The weird thing for me is that instead of partying people are watching Netflix videos of fictional people partying. Which makes those people fictional indeed. Are we going to eventually have movies about watching movies, about playing video
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Science starts with problems, not observations. If excessive pleasure is unhealthy or bad, why do people seek it? We can use folk psychology as starting point, e.g. consumption of Ben and Jerry's in response to relationship difficultie
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by tremendulo 9y ago
It's a weakness of empiricism that scientists remain reluctant to consider the role of (unmeasurable) psychological states, such as pleasure or stress, in the context of a (measurable) physiological response, such as raised blood press
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by tremendulo 9y ago
Honestly I think I'd get used to the smell and the sight of animal flesh within a few weeks. But I guess the hard part, aside from the normal stresses and strains of low-paid work, would be wearing rubber gloves, plastic overalls, etc,

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