floobynewb

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by floobynewb 13y ago
I have been following this for a while and have taken the time to understand it in a little detail. While it does not provide the 'answers', it does frame the question of 'what is an intelligent machine?' in a very preci
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by floobynewb 13y ago
lol
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by floobynewb 13y ago
Yes! Not enough people get this. Anonymous is a name for a loose, evolving affiliation of ideas, it is not a specific group of people. It personifies a set of beliefs, a view of the world, it allows a hive mind to express itself as an indiv
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by floobynewb 13y ago
I honestly don't think you can make it much simpler. That is not to say it is simple, just that it is by nature not simple. You can dress the concepts up, make them look nice with a graphical front end, but really the complexity comes
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by floobynewb 13y ago
I agree. It would certainly take decades for them to master the technology. It might even take them 50 years. A lot of the knowledge required is implicit in the industry taken as a whole. Put me in the stone age with a manual for making bro
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by floobynewb 13y ago
To be fair, I'm pretty sure he had his tongue firmly in his cheek. But point well made. Whenever this point comes up I think of a scene from 'the cube', is it a massive conspiracy or utter incompetence combined with some kind
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by floobynewb 13y ago
I suppose the question is: Are there appropriate abstractions which would bring conceptual simplicity to these systems? I find it hard to believe that there is not. A system which does not have such a property is more difficult for natural
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by floobynewb 13y ago
The question of time is deeper than this. Why is it that your brain or for that matter any physical system is dependent on it's previous configurations? Why is it that there is such a thing as previous? The mathematical descriptions of
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by floobynewb 13y ago
I experience this. But my addiction is for information, technical articles, scientific papers in mathematics, physics, machine learning, biology. Now I can do it all on my phone anywhere, anytime. Texting and social media are of little inte
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by floobynewb 13y ago
I was thinking along the same lines. What he is asking for is quite close to general AI!
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by floobynewb 13y ago
I think this is wrong. Take for instance the task of classifying images. You can train a RBN with backprop (after contrastive divergence alg) to correctly classify images. In the process it has automagically determined properties of the ima
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by floobynewb 13y ago
Despite its disjointed nature I found that some interesting notions and feelings made their way out of the text and into my brain. I might even say that it was good. Definitely worth the effort for me.
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by floobynewb 13y ago
Bang on.
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by floobynewb 13y ago
I loved the overall site. I'm talking specifically about the text at the very bottom of the page, the small print section.
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by floobynewb 13y ago
Ugh, read the small print section. Horrible, designed by committee to attempt to sound like their audience. I sometimes find these quite revealing, although irritating. It shows how they perceive the people they are targeting with a product
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by floobynewb 13y ago
Where you say schizophrenia you probably mean split personality disorder. I am not even bothering to re-read your first sentence because of your perpetuation of this horrendous misuse of language.
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by floobynewb 13y ago
There really isn't. You're letting your bias influence your opinion. Read the paper, draw your conclusions carefully, I wager you will have to change them.
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by floobynewb 13y ago
Damn you beat me to it.
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by floobynewb 13y ago
This has occured to me too. Is there some extra dimension to all this that we cannot see? However I dont think its necessary to explain events.
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by floobynewb 13y ago
I'm not sure I follow. There's nothing mystical about the idea. The hypothesis is testable as shown by the research. The data currently looks to support it. I'm not sure why you are saying it is unscientific. I grant you ther
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by floobynewb 13y ago
This is a real thing. There appear to be intimate connections between the mind and the body, in both directions. Levels higher up the hierarchy of dynamical systems within an organism appear to direct the function of lower systems. It'
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by floobynewb 13y ago
I agree with this. To get out of this local trap we are going to need something revolutionary. This is not something you can plow money into, it will come, if indeed it ever comes, from left field. My bet is there is a new 'frame'
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by floobynewb 13y ago
My feeling on this: There is no effective science for this. Determining a more effective structure, for such a horribly non-linear dynamical system, requires mathematics which we do not have. I suspect that we are operating within a concept
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by floobynewb 13y ago
I acutely remember this issue when I was maybe 10 - 14. I tried to talk to my parents about the sadness I was feeling in these areas, but I couldn't make them understand. I had no-one around me who understood what I was saying, no-one
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by floobynewb 13y ago
I think many people have a hunch in this direction. But that may just be because we desire ourselves to be in some way special. I would be wary of anyone discounting it out of hand. What you are really asking is how does the brain work? If
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by floobynewb 13y ago
thank you
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by floobynewb 13y ago
Deep link? The two fields both contain the notion of locality, big woop. The application of quantum nonlocal correlations to game theory is interesting, but this is not what is advertised in the article. I am displeased.
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by floobynewb 13y ago
"Every nation gets the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre. Thank you, this quote suddenly really clicked for me. I had interpreted it as an indictment of apathy. It's actually a statement of fact, the government ref
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by floobynewb 13y ago
@gojomo, this is what I had thought the original poster meant. Shame it was a better, nicer joke that way around.
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by floobynewb 13y ago
I actually find this plausible. Like the author I also have problems believing that random mutation and selection is a complete/adequate explanation. Just a hunch, there's a deeper theory to be had here.

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