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by xamuel 7y ago
Hypothetical question. Suppose I love calculus so much, I want to share it with the whole world. So I rent a building and announce free food to the homeless on condition that they attend my lectures on calculus. Would you bar me from ejecti
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>We've been in this "post truth" world for a long time already for every form of media other than video The film "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" came out in 1939. It should be mandatory viewing.
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>Some of us are actually interested in truth, which cannot be obtained if one perspective is irrationally forbidden as taboo. A thousand times this. If the taboo'd claims are false, then the other side should welcome discussion an
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Did you publish a paper on these experiments? I'm not familiar with the boolean circuit problem, but I wonder if it's an instance where the NP hardness comes from specific edge cases, and whether your experiment tested said edge c
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What was the experiment you ran?
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I'm not saying it's not scientifically answerable, just that hiring people specifically to answer it is not practical. This type of thing usually comes through unplanned breakthroughs. You can't discover that the earth revolv
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For systems with automated password resets sent to email, what even is the point of a password at all? It literally accomplishes nothing. Just get rid of the password entirely and make checking email officially a part of the login.
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I spent a year doing an ontology postdoc. I can't speak for Cyc, but from what I saw of the ontology world, there are a lot of charlatans and people who are using it as a buzzword to make grant proposals sexier. Whether or not there&#x
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There has been some philosophical speculating but that's generally not very actionable, with people clinging to either side of the question. On the practical side, it's the sort of thing which you can't just throw money at an
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It's as if they read in "Brave New World" about the abolition of the family unit and they took that as an instruction guide.
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Ironic considering most tech startups' exit plan is essentially to be acquired by FB/Google/Amazon. They are de facto R&D branches for FB/Google/Amazon with all the attendant risk and none of the benefits.
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Measuring the intelligence of an idealized mechanical knowing agent [pdf](semitrivial.github.io)
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I think this is why the Socratic method is so effective. When Socrates would debate with someone, he would almost never just state claims as if he knew the answers. Rather, he would always act as if his audience was the expert and he himsel
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by xamuel 7y ago
This. If building a conscious machine was as simple as building a machine that looks conscious on MRI, then it would be as simple as tape-recording a human brain.
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It would change the end-product of TASing to be a bot instead of a fixed run. A fixed run would be impossible, like you say, and instead the goal would be to create a bot that could perform well across many runs.
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Existing randomizers randomize things like enemy layout, chest contents, etc. An interesting different type of randomizer would be one which preserves everything like that, but adds better randomness (i.e., randomness independent of the emu
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Wittgenstein and Gödel didn't have the advantage of knowing about mirror neurons [1], which have at least some potential to shoot some life back into the idea of at least some sense of innate information-theoretic meaning in language.
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>The Aryans seem unlikely producers of a holy scripture, since their lives were not what we would call devout. I wonder where this idea comes from that only devout people can be inspired. People are shocked when they pick up the Old Test
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>But if they go to pypi, it won't have many installs If people are using number of installs as a safety metric, can't blackhats game that by having a bot install the package many times?
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This page has plots of performance of a certain agent on these different environments: https://openai.com/blog/procgen-benchmark/ Question to anyone familiar with this stuff: I can't figure out which agent th
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You're implicitly assuming each woman only had one single encounter with the guy.
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Gödel's work actually echoes Christianity quite deeply. A key theme of Christianity is that humans are incapable of being good (much less of achieving perfection) on their own strength--no more than Hilbert could axiomatize all of math
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>kids are extremely hard to raise by modern standards... Those thoughts don't seem to have been going through this guy's head: https://www.sunnewsonline.com/i-slept-with-1400-girls-impreg...
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It's an open problem whether or not one of the sides in chess has a "winning strategy". That's a technical game-theoretical term. If white has a "winning strategy", that means there's a way for white to pl
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The newness of the contraceptives doesn't matter as long as they're still opt-in. No-one's suggesting humans will evolve condom-melting sperm. There's no need: a much easier trait to evolve is the desire to have kids.
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Relevant article [1] and corresponding HN discussion thread [2] Daily reminder that in an evolutionary context, the last 200 years are the blink of an eye. I'll paste a comment I made there: "If an antibiotic doesn't wipe out
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In a recent paper [1], I argue that intelligence cannot ever be accurately measured by any one particular game or 'environment', but rather, it's better to think of each such environment as being a voter, with just one vote o
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No worries, though: if you forget your password you can just call up IT and get it changed to "welcome1" :)
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Careful there. That would incentivize unscrupulous nations to breed vast populations and keep them barely alive in cages, just to be "allowed" more emissions.
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>They want the "theater" of security, the good feeling, the box to check on their resume (as management) so everyone can pretend everything is fine and go back to the business at hand. And don't forget the universal elixir

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