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by xamuel 4y ago
Kubrick films often have "once-you-see-it-you-can't-unsee-it" easter eggs. In Strangelove there's an amazing one: the big circular table in the war room (with the circular lights above it) looks like a mushroom cloud if
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by xamuel 4y ago
Your covering-one-eye thing works particularly nicely if you use it in a place where you can see the tops of lots of trees at various distances overlapping each other. Cover one eye and suddenly all those canopies become one depthless blob,
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by xamuel 4y ago
"Reward Is Enough" is an interesting paper, less for its content, more for its place in the zeitgeist or something. It has very little in the way of novel "theorem proving" but it has sparked quite a lot of discussion. I
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by xamuel 5y ago
Thanks, that's amazing! I wish there was more of a central forum for this stuff. Do you know of any similar channels for FF6, Chrono Trigger, and other golden-age JRPGs?
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by xamuel 5y ago
>new things are discovered almost every month - new game glitches, mechanics Is there a good place to follow these discoveries? The site you linked seems to mainly just be mods, and when I search for glitch discussion I mostly just find
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by xamuel 5y ago
The film you're thinking of is Sullivan's Travels (1941), a real fantastic film I'd highly recommend. The American Film Institute ranked it the #61 greatest American film of all time.
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by xamuel 5y ago
Yes, people completely misunderstand what the golden rectangle is about and why it's important. Its importance lies in the fact that it's canonical, a rectangle motivated intrinsically, independent of anyone's preferences (co
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by xamuel 5y ago
That's one of the reasons it's so nice to use reinforcement learning agents as guinea pigs. I can "pip install" a bunch of industry-standard RL agents and put them through the most bizarre scenarios, scenarios it would n
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by xamuel 5y ago
I think part of the problem might be people too often try to come up with some grand unifying theory all at once, without standing on the shoulders of giants. Sort of like trying to write a gigantic codebase all in one sitting (no test suit
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by xamuel 5y ago
The nightmare-inducing 1984 film "Threads" portrays a nuclear holocaust that begins with exactly these kind of small tactical nukes. <Spoilers>The nuclear conflict begins with the USSR using a nuclear-tipped SAM missile to w
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by xamuel 5y ago
Augustine does explicitly reference Aristotle's "Categories" in his Confessions, I believe. Not sure what other material of Aristotle's was available to Augustine, I'm not a scholar on the subject. Of course, even t
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by xamuel 5y ago
>Aquinas reconciled some Aristotelian and Neoplatonic views with the Catholic Church I wonder if you might be mistaking Aquinas for Augustine? Augustine introduced huge amounts of Neoplatonism into Christianity very early---little more t
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by xamuel 5y ago
Thanks, that's one of the best critiques I've ever heard of my paper. One minor correction first: you're absolutely right that AGI is about comprehending the environment, not about perfectly solving all environments (the latt
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by xamuel 5y ago
>Is there some other way that we are do it beside our biological reward system? Seems to me that's what this whole paper we're discussing is about. If you're already convinced that there is no other way, then you're b
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by xamuel 5y ago
>I'm asking what's a behaviour you can't replicate using a reward system based on real numbers So glad you asked! I can give an answer which people will love who take the necessary time to understand it. It's complica
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by xamuel 5y ago
>There are no infinite rewards in biology and yet mathematicians seem to do just fine answering these sorts of questions This is only a problem if you're already assuming we do everything based on our biological reward systems, and
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by xamuel 5y ago
Here's an example. Suppose there are two buttons, A and B. If you press A for the nth time, then you get reward n. If you press B for the nth time, then you get reward 0 if n is not a power of 2, or reward omega (the first infinite ord
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by xamuel 5y ago
And yet computers have no problem symbolically representing non-rational numbers like sqrt(2), pi, etc. Neither is there any inherent reason why they cannot symbolically represent various levels of infinity, nor why those would be incompreh
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by xamuel 5y ago
I thought it was a fun position paper, if not exactly groundbreaking. They did avoid one common pitfall at least. They are (intentionally?) vague about which number systems the rewards can come from, apparently leaving it open whether the r
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by xamuel 5y ago
When I said "the reader", I meant other readers besides me. I am not a knowledgeable man, in fact just about all I know is how little I know. But as you are one of those other readers besides me, maybe you know what courage is, if
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by xamuel 5y ago
The reader presumably already knows what courage is, and does not need to be taught that. Rather, Socrates/Plato probably intended to guide us toward the eternal Form of courage. Laches' approach would indeed be better for teachin
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by xamuel 6y ago
If I were a billionaire, I'd finance a project where this kind of technology is used on witnesses of historical events (WWII battles, marching with MLK, lost rock concerts, etc). Ask them to visualize the event, and record their visual
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by xamuel 6y ago
Sherlock Jr. is unbelievably deep and profound. For Keaton's more lightheaded humor, I recommend The Goat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXjhVZPYYRU
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by xamuel 6y ago
I think you might be mixing up surreals with hyperreals.
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by xamuel 6y ago
>You are replacing the usual meaning of AGI (a machine that can execute a wide variety of tasks in human to superhuman fashion) with a far stronger one (a machine that can complete arbitrary tasks perfectly). No, I never make any assumpt
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by xamuel 6y ago
Yes, it's instructive to recall that the Pythagorean Cult believed all numbers were rational (and this was a religious sort of belief). There's a legend (albeit probably not historically accurate) that when a member of the cult pr
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by xamuel 6y ago
I think they'll be important in AGI research for one thing. Take reinforcement learning (RL) for example: the rewards are arbitrarily constrained to be real numbers (or rational numbers). But why? There is a rich variety of RL environm
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by xamuel 6y ago
Conway is often remembered for his Game of Life, but IMHO that is trivia in comparison with his surreal number system [1]. I predict that while surreal numbers today are an under-appreciated toy, in coming centuries they will gradually beco
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by xamuel 6y ago
It is a common misconception that "Thou shalt not lie" is a divine commandment from God. You're probably thinking of "Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor" (Exodus 20:16), which is more specific.
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by xamuel 6y ago
Great. So because of our glorious War On Drugs, now drugs are being hidden all over the place where curious little kids are liable to find them. Can we please legalize yesterday?

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