AIPedant

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by AIPedant 1y ago
This is where you are confused - in fact just plain wrong: A symbol is a discrete sign that has some sort of symbol table (explicit or not) describing the mapping of the sign to the intended interpretation Symbols do not have to be d
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by AIPedant 1y ago
No, analog computers truly are symbolic. The simplest analog computer - the abacus - is obviously symbolic, and thus is also true for WW2 gun fire control computers, ball-and-shaft integrators, etc. They do not use inscriptions which is m
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Articles like this indicate we should lock down the definition of "computation" that meaningfully distinguishes computing machines from other physical phenomena - a computation is a process that maps symbols (or strings of symbols
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I understand the broader point but it is not actually constitutionally problematic for the executive branch to assert that a suspect committed a crime - of course they believe that, that's why the suspect was arrested! It is better for
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by AIPedant 1y ago
If you look at my comment history you will see that I don't think LLMs are nearly as intelligent as rats or pigeons. Rats and pigeons have an intuitive understanding of quantity and LLMs do not. I don't know what "the lowest
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by AIPedant 1y ago
"Making predictions about the world" is a reductive and childish way to describe intelligence in humans. Did David Lynch make Mulholland Drive because he predicted it would be a good movie? The most depressing thing about AI summe
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Putin and Xi fantasizing about immortality via 3D-printed organs quite starkly illustrated that many adults do not understand the difference between science and science fiction.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Keep in mind that we also have no clue how general anesthesia works! It's not just psychiatry, many medications targeting the nervous system (e.g. muscle relaxants) have unknown mechanisms of action https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It didn't come completely out of nowhere, Euler and Bernoulli had looked at trigonometric series for studying the elastic motion of a deformed beam or rod. In that case, physical intuition about adding together sine waves is much more
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by AIPedant 1y ago
On the simplest end of that spectrum, Taylor series are useful because many real-world dynamics can be approximated as a "primarily linear behavior" + "nonlinear effects." (And cases where that isn't true can still
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Caves of Qud is quite good, though a bit less traditional in being a big open world vs a dungeon. There a few quirks and bugs but the game is very fun and creative, and it has excellent music. I also love the graphics but it is an acquired
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by AIPedant 1y ago
The point is that knowing where your hand is in space relative to the rest of your body is a distinct sense which is directly three-dimensional. This information is not inferred, it is measured with receptors in your joints and ligaments.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
No, the sensors measure a continuum of force or displacement along a line or rotational axis, 1D is correct.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Inner ear is a great example! I mentioned in another comment that if you want to be reductive the sensors in the inner ear - the hairs themselves - are one dimensional, but the overall sense is directly three dimensional. (In a way it&#x2
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It is simply wrong to describe touch and proprioception receptors as 2D. a) In a technical sense the actual receptors are 1D, not 2D. Perhaps some of them are two dimensional, but generally mechanical touch is about pressure or tension in
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Human perception is not 2D, touch and proprioception[1] are three-dimensional senses. And of course it really makes more sense to say human perception is 3+1-dimensional since we perceive the passage of time. [1] https://en.wikip
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by AIPedant 1y ago
That's not what "coherent computational representation" means in this context. It means being able to reliably apply the rules of Othello / chess / etc to the current state of the board. Any competent amateur can do
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I don't think "so isolated he turned to a chatbot for validation" describes this, or why people get unhealthily attached to chatbots. 1) The man became severely mentally ill in middle age, and he lived with his mother because
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by AIPedant 1y ago
You can say it’s exactly 1 plus or minus some small epsilon and use the completeness of the reals to argue that we can always build a finer ruler and push the epsilon down further. You have a sequence (meters, decimeters, centimeters, milli
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by AIPedant 1y ago
The real point is that it takes infinite energy to get infinite precision. Let me add that we have no clue how to do a measurement that doesn't involve a photon somewhere, which means that it's pure science fiction to think of i
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I am confused why you think the exactness of integers and rationals is unphysical. "This egg carton has 12 eggs" is a (boring) physical statement. "You can make 1/3rd of a carton of eggs without cutting an egg" also
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I have no idea what point you're trying to make. I am aware the selection process is different. If you understand the argument now but you're just splitting hairs about whether it's similar to Monty Hall, fine let's agre
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Nobody could have predicted that someone who worked for Baidu, Google, and OpenAI would found a company like this.
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Where you're getting confused is by trying to combine state space determination and probability determination at the same time (this is also why the problem is so similar to Monty Hall). The state space is shifting when you say "a
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Unlike the other misreading, I think you are splitting hairs about something boring and irritating. Rephrase the problem instead to "you have a reliable device that can tell whether the family has at least one daughter but doesn'
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Like others in the thread have said, the question could have been phrased more precisely. Technically you are misreading it but in an annoying and trivial way. What the problem is really saying is this: 1) You have a large collection of fam
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by AIPedant 1y ago
This intuition is wrong even if turned out to get the right answer. The three unordered options do not have equal probabilities, boy+girl is twice as likely to occur as boy+boy and girl+girl. To get the right answer you must be careful abou
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by AIPedant 1y ago
Humans have been staying up late next to a bright light (fire) for longer than we've been Homo sapiens. Considering humans have unique physiological adaptations to smoke (heavy tear and mucus production) I think it's plausible t
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by AIPedant 1y ago
It sounds to me like Google is moving to a more typical "technical lead" model where leads have substantial authority and some mentorship responsibilities, but they're essentially an IC and someone else up the chain actually
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by AIPedant 1y ago
I have read that too (particularly in handheld mode) but Elden Ring is a bit of a dog on PC and PS5, this might not be the best example. The engine has way too much cruft to ever run smoothly.

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