JamesArgo

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by JamesArgo 12y ago
Mathematical talent is so useful, and so few have it. I hope genetic interventions will help in this next century.
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Russell, Bostrom and the Risk of AI(medium.com)
6 points by JamesArgo 12y ago|0 comments
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
Both the Schrodinger equation and inflationary cosmology predict alternate worlds filled with alternate yous. MWI refers to the former. The author of this piece is talking about the later. If anyone is looking for a simple introduction to
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
>It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that a front line, if not the trench of the global gender war, is in Silicon Valley. In that sense, Silicon Valley culture echoes the Wolf of Wall Street culture in the ’80s and ’90s. Signal the rig
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
For anyone interested, here's Scott Aaronson's response to the paper: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1767#comment-103591 OK everyone: At several people’s request, I’ve now taken a look at arXiv:1403.768
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
Macroscopic decoherence has explained away Schrodingers Cat. It's been a non-mystery for years.
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
No one has every believed in the basilisk, save for maybe Yud. Everyone on LessWrong thought it was dumb from day one. LessWrong, now mostly dead, was a fun community full of smart people. That article is trying to make the place out as a c
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
It's assumed a rational agent judges its actions by how likely said action are to align the world with their fundamental values. For this reason, it is argued, a rational agent will not change its terminal goals. For example, suppose
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
The correct analogy would be a jail run by a bacterium.
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Of Myths and Moonshine(edge.org)
1 points by JamesArgo 12y ago|0 comments
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The Toxoplasma of Rage(slatestarcodex.com)
1 points by JamesArgo 12y ago|0 comments
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
Most chefs are male - people don't care because its a low status job. Programming is now high status, so now this gender gap is an issue. As many feminists have "misogynistic conspiracy" as their default explanation for any d
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Richard Feynman – Fixing Radios(youtube.com)
2 points by JamesArgo 12y ago|0 comments
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Hypercritical: Knowing is half the battle(arstechnica.com)
3 points by JamesArgo 12y ago|0 comments
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
If this means anything, it means we should experiment with newer forms of government, not be happy with the best of a bad lot.
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
>To feed gwern's smug sense of superiority to the rest of humankind Really? >And let us add, people create art because it's fun, which is reason enough for almost anything. He's arguing against subsidising art, not for
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
With head tracking it can look quite good. Though that only works for one person.
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
Scott S. Alexander wrote a great blog post about this called Society Is Fixed, Biology Is Mutable: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biolog...
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
>We can't measure things we don't understand. What? Was everyone blind before the discovery of quantum mechanics? If we can't measure things we don't understand, how the heck would we come to understand them? Through
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
So basically, we can't make a photodetector without first being able to create a sun?
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
Slightly-misleading TLDR: Iterated embryo selection is sort of test tube reproduction and selectiong. If you can create gametes from stem cells, then create many more embryos with these gametes and then score each embryo, repeating the pro
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
This is just regression toward the mean.
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
>Human intelligence is heritable. This is indisputable. Denying IQ and its heritability is equivalent to denying global warming. It’s settled science. Dysgenics is certainly possible. I think technology like iterated embryo selection and
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
You've got this normative halo around "intelligence". All intelligence is, is an agent's ability to satisfy its utility function. >But if it continues to work on the paper clips and decides that they are still needed
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
The AI is modelled as an agent with goals. If you want to argue that "intelligence" means "has a terminal goal exactly matching the values of humanity," then I suppose a paper-clip maximizer is not intelligent, but that&
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
I like this take. Last century we built many amazing bodies, this century we give them brains.
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Malthusianisms (2009)(scottaaronson.com)
1 points by JamesArgo 12y ago|0 comments
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
I never took Bitshares seriously. I thought their licensing strategy was insane so I dismissed them. Then I read their delegated proof of stake paper. It's one or the more rational, practicable alternatives to POW I've seen propos
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
He's an extraordinary accomplished writer. I recommend his short story collection, Axiomatic, as a great introduction to his work.
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Don't Trust God(nyansandwich.info)
3 points by JamesArgo 12y ago|0 comments

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