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by xamuel 6y ago
Even more interesting IMO is that the same argument holds not just for royalty but also for religious figures whose descendants have special divinely-sanctioned status in various different religions. For example, it's quite likely that
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Even worse, the Hutter challenge is based on just a 1GB fragment of (one particular snapshot of) English Wikipedia. Further highlighting what has been said elsewhere in this thread, that as far as compression goes this is basically just a v
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by xamuel 6y ago
>Facebook by its nature takes stances on deeply political topics. Why is that "by its nature"? I don't think that's "by its nature" at all. Phone companies and ISPs facilitate communication between people, b
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by xamuel 6y ago
Now that I think about it, one Kafka environment which does indeed fit the Dwarf Fortress description really well would be the hotel in "Amerika", especially when Karl works as an elevator attendant there. It's exactly the so
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by xamuel 6y ago
Video game advertisement disguised as hacker news post. >As much as I enjoyed my time with “Metamorphosis,” I should note that its stiff character animations make the human characters look like eerie-looking puppets. The only thing remot
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by xamuel 6y ago
I think mybe part of why it doesn't work so much for modern games is that modern games are constantly being patched and updated. You could write a big detailed guide and then the next day, the devs push an update which changes everythi
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by xamuel 6y ago
I think people have a misconception that mathematicians get together with pomp and ceremony and someone pounds a gavel and declares, "By order of the secret council of mathematicians, such-and-such theorem is hereby dubbed 'Davis&
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by xamuel 6y ago
>I said we should work to prevent death. But we already are, in the sense that medical and safety research is constantly being conducted and there are professionals whose job is to rescue people from fires and similar disasters. There&#x
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by xamuel 6y ago
>I wish people were more afraid of death. Maybe we'd be doing more about it. The line has to be drawn somewhere, otherwise logically speaking we ought to force everyone into permanent suspended animation on life support machines. Bu
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by xamuel 6y ago
Eliminating guesswork from minesweeper kills a subtle metagame. The minesweeper metagame is not about how best to win a particular playthrough, but rather, how to proceed so as to achieve the fastest record time after many playthroughs. Thu
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by xamuel 6y ago
For people interested in arithmetic progression type theorems, one of my favorite theorems along those lines (though technically not actually about arithmetic progressions, but extremely closesly related), and a very under-appreciated gem,
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>If you're seeing lower traffic on your site and don't feel like you need to improve the content or do something different, you deserve to be losing that traffic to someone else who does. I disagree. Suppose you're unquest
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by xamuel 6y ago
Well, one special edge-case would be where you only need to parse some extremely tiny subset of JSON (for example: you only need to parse dictionaries whose keys and values are positive integers, like {1:2,3:4}). Then, depending how expensi
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by xamuel 6y ago
I never said an AGI cannot know its own code, I said it cannot know both its own code AND its own truthfulness (while being truthful and satisfying certain other idealized assumptions). As for why this is the case: it's not an assumpti
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by xamuel 6y ago
Really appreciate your reply. I hadn't spent much time thinking about what happens when, e.g., AGI X does not know that AGI Y is truthful, but rather, knows that there is probability at least 99.999% that AGI Y is truthful. Maybe t
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by xamuel 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Regarding "impossible requirements", does it really go without saying that knowing an AGI's truthfulness is so impossible? I could write a computer program which does nothing but print "1+1=2&quo
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by xamuel 6y ago
The only similarity between that and my argument is that both involve a measure decreasing. Are you saying that one fallacious argument involving a decreasing measure invalidates all arguments ever that involve (completely unrelated) decrea
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by xamuel 6y ago
I'm not debating about whether an AGI can duplicate itself or not. If an AGI knows its own source-code, it can duplicate itself. I literally acknowledge this in the paper itself (section 5.2). Rather, what I am saying is that it does
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by xamuel 6y ago
One of the neat things about the argument in my paper is that it doesn't involve the parent AGI actually running the child AGI. It merely involves the parent writing source-code and knowing that IF it had enough resources to run the so
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by xamuel 6y ago
I think we're talking past each other. My claim is that if an AGI single-handedly creates a child AGI, in such a way as to know the child's source-code and truthfulness, then the parent is more intelligent than the child (in a cer
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by xamuel 6y ago
Could you clarify what you mean when you say "That's borrowed from an old theological argument"?
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Right, but the machine which prints its own source-code does not do so in such a way as to know the child's truthfulness (because the machine cannot know its own truthfulness and source-code, assuming the machine itself is truthful and
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by xamuel 6y ago
Playing by different rules does not allow one to defy the laws of mathematics. In my original post, forgive me, I forgot to clarify that when I talk about an AGI creating a child, I mean doing so in such a way as to know the source-code and
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by xamuel 6y ago
Sorry, I forgot to clarify that when I talk about the AGI creating a child, I mean the AGI creating a child in such a way as to know the child's truthfulness and source-code. Otherwise, of course, a monkey could "create" an A
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by xamuel 6y ago
Right, I should have clarified that I meant: create a child in such a way as to know the child's truthfulness and source-code. Of course, without that requirement, a monkey could blindly type up an AGI source-code on a typewrite by she
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by xamuel 6y ago
From the article: "In terms of a distributed artificial intelligence, Dyson is a believer. Because with a distributed system, you have an opportunity for evolution, for it to find itself and to learn on its own." I published a pap
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by xamuel 6y ago
Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. Daily reminder that although Christ taught and preached for three long years, only a few dozen pages of his verified sayings have survived. Read them, meditate on them, treasure them. "
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by xamuel 6y ago
You seem to be reasoning as if I've said there's a unique person today such that everyone in future year Y will be that person's descendant. In the above oversimplified example that I gave, everyone alive today would have
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by xamuel 6y ago
Bear in mind, you don't need regular trade routes from Andes to Tibet, you only need the tiniest "leakage" (e.g., one outcast per 250 years leaving/entering the Andes, one outcast per 250 years leaving/entering Tibe
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by xamuel 6y ago
Why would there need to be a massive near-extinction event? Maybe we're talking past each-other. What I mean by "reverse IA point" is a point Y in the future such that every human in 2020 is either an ancestor of every human

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