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by wlievens 13y ago
Thing is, humans come up with new "actions" all the time. If you drop that abstraction, and reduce our actions to "controlling information flow in our bodies" then the action space becomes unfathomably huge.
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by wlievens 13y ago
I'm not saying I necessarily support Searle's position. I do think it's an interesting thought experiment. To be honest, if it quacks and walks, I'm not one who'll be arguing that it isn't sapient. I haven&#x27
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by wlievens 13y ago
> if we only care about the outcome and the utility of the AGI, and don't expect it to be fully "human like" I'm not even sure whether that's a meaningful distinction. Searle's Chinese Room et cetera. I&#x27
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by wlievens 13y ago
I don't. It's just our decade's version of deep blue. A pretty damn good calculator, but zero steps in the direction of a mind. It lacks 'common sense', for want of a better term.
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by wlievens 13y ago
One significant advantage q Strong AI has over any human brain though is that it never forgets anything. No fsc, process or hypothesis would slip by its mind.
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by wlievens 13y ago
It can however only do one flavour of pattern matching whereas we combine our mental facilities dynamically. And to wnticipate your "well, that's nothing a computer can't do"... show me any work in the direction of serio
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by wlievens 13y ago
Thank you! It seems to me that the only people preaching about the AIpocalypse are either those who know nothing about it, or over ambitious unrealistic zealots. Strong AI is not on any horizon any time soon. The best thing you'd expec
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by wlievens 13y ago
It doesn't take that many devices too offset design cost.
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by wlievens 13y ago
Am I correct when I say you can view it as distributed banking, where the miners are the distributed bank, and the mined btc are the fee you get for supporting the system - being the bank?
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by wlievens 13y ago
Err, with more money you'll have to spend less time on making money you know :-)
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by wlievens 13y ago
Nope. We're going to build a small compute cluster for java 7 code. It's for a few dozen cores so nothing huge. I love these embarrassingly parallelizable problems so the idea of using cheap servers has some appeal to me. Though t
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by wlievens 13y ago
Is there a JVM for these?
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by wlievens 13y ago
Diffs? Can you diff excel files somehow?
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by wlievens 13y ago
Agreed with the point but damn that was some awful writing!
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by wlievens 13y ago
Indeed, in terms of complexity theory I would guess, not in terms of milliseconds.
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by wlievens 14y ago
There's also the notion of proportionality.
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by wlievens 14y ago
Yes indeed. I work in the image sensor business (writing test software) and it surprises me when I hear that it's often times next to impossible for a sensor design to be reliably produced in another fab .
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by wlievens 14y ago
This is all very theoretical, but makes no sense in reality. This guy should take a look at the complexity in manufacturing for instance an image sensor, and then think twice about his "universal maker".
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by wlievens 14y ago
A healthier attitude than the "stuck in a hole" one, I would think.
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by wlievens 14y ago
How about the argument that higher sugar intake causes you to be more hungry, therefore making it easier to eat less calories on a low suger (high-fat) diet. I know it's an entirely different argument from the "keto magic" argument you are
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by wlievens 14y ago
I think his point is valid exactly because people are bad at randomness.
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by wlievens 14y ago
Cyberpunk would be an example of that.
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by wlievens 14y ago
Avatar had some pretty awesome user interface/interaction device concepts.
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by wlievens 14y ago
What do you sell now?
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by wlievens 14y ago
Sure it is, when we're talking about the same sensor and pixel design, which is implied when you say "simply swap the sensor". Otherwise it's a completely different camera setup. Also, while obviously technology has improved, the industry d
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by wlievens 14y ago
Obviously I was assuming same pixel size. Sorry if that wasn't clear. You're correct about the noise, of course. Pixel size is at least as important as the number of pixels. That's why a 4 megapixel cell phone sensor ($15) is vastly inferio
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by wlievens 14y ago
The rover has been there for only a few days. They probably even haven't turned most of its instruments on!
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by wlievens 14y ago
Yeah. I'm not even sure the mechanics of a $100 can survive a vacuum, much less deep space and Mars reentry.
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by wlievens 14y ago
... using first aerobraking, then a giant balloon, and then a sky crane with thrusters.
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by wlievens 14y ago
What are you talking about?

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