joggery

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by joggery 10y ago
I think you're mistaken about this. Once the philosophical and technical breakthroughs are made that allow us to build an AGI then it will get all the data it needs from its environment. It would be 'unsupervised' in the sens
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by joggery 10y ago
I like the way the narrator-hero is trapped in a sinister bell jar world and yet works optimistically to improve his knowledge of it. Regardless of outcome he sees no malevolence built into reality.
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by joggery 10y ago
Consider that the machinery to make group decisions and allocate resources already exists (laws, institutions, government, etc). It is imperfect and can be improved. But what is relevant here is that groups of people wish to alter the mac
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by joggery 10y ago
Politics is about who to blame and hacking is about solving problems. (Blaming is the opposite of solving problems.)
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by joggery 10y ago
I like because it gives due credit to Chiang. Painfully modest though he may be, this enterprise sprang out of his imagination.
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by joggery 10y ago
Wai H. Tsang: http://www.academia.edu/27961545/The_Fractal_Brain_Theory_-_...
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by joggery 10y ago
With the advent of squeezable bottles the new problem is how to prevent the socially awkward squelching noise.
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by joggery 10y ago
The criterion is not about assessing a particular individual's contributions, it's about choosing what and whom to investigate in the first place. Of course this is subjective, and rightly so.
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by joggery 10y ago
Indeed. And just as most people can't see things accurately, not can they sense what's going on inside their mouths. AFAICT each accent has a signature pattern of muscle tension and positioning of jaw, pharynx, etc.
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by joggery 10y ago
>I'm sure I'm even still missing aspects. Perhaps this comes under 'defenders of the realm', but: dogs bark at strangers thereby acting as an alarm system. I wonder if dogs domesticated themselves , at least to begin
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by joggery 10y ago
>hear of a name before you hear of a concrete achievement That's an excellent criterion. I often wonder if many famous past intellectuals were mere celebrities where I can't recall a single achievement. And if one can't
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by joggery 10y ago
Thank you! That's actually the one I meant. (With apologies to Mr Dheere. I haven't heard his rendition.) Ray Sizemore reads it in a detached manner (reminiscent of the Emergency Medical Hologram in Star Trek Voyager ) which is h
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by joggery 10y ago
Exhalation is one of the best SF stories ever written: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/ (Somewhere out there is an audio version crisply and cerebrally voiced by Tom Dheere.)
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by joggery 10y ago
Why does it take so long for us to form our first memory? My guess is it's because human memories are ideas and like all our ideas they depend on other ideas for their meaning. However when we were young our ideas about the world wer
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by joggery 10y ago
Isn't there a valid distinction between the joy of making genuine progress in life and mere pleasure such as that derived from drugs or alcohol?
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by joggery 10y ago
I like to consider the difference between 'one','a couple','a few','several','many'. e.g 1,2,3-6,5-12,10+ respectively. >Vagueness isn’t a problem about logic; it’s a problem about knowle
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by joggery 10y ago
You need the math required to understand the language in which the current best physical theories are written. It's unknown as yet which mathematical objects will be required for their successors.
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by joggery 10y ago
>terribly introverted adolescent, painfully aware of his own suffering Self-awareness seems to be a key component of creativity.
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by joggery 10y ago
>excessive screen time early in life can change the circuits in a growing brain Any activity changes the brain. Also, as BurningFrog points out, "rewires" is a metaphorical term and therefore vague. Ditto "circuits".
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by joggery 10y ago
Isn't this sort of thing inevitable? I mean, the more technology advances the easier and cheaper it becomes to build terrorist devices or WMDs. Therefore society, in order to protect itself, has to be vigilant about how the relevant kn
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by joggery 10y ago
Indeed. Turn the spotlight of publicity onto what people, be they good or bad, have to say. Turn a platform into a "safe space" and pretty soon any kind of criticism will be interpreted as harassment. This will deny users a powerf
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by joggery 10y ago
Wonder if drones could be shielded against this? Or, better yet, could the technology be adapted to transmit energy to drones or spacecraft?
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by joggery 10y ago
Myself I prefer optimistic SF such as classic Asimov and Clarke. I don't mind things going wrong because mistakes are normal. But there ought to be resolution and problems solved by hard-won knowledge and the efforts of good people. If
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by joggery 10y ago
>humans have an innate capacity for reason, which they fail to use They use it as children; with adults explicit reason is mostly confined to their work. The rest of the time adults use reason covertly: to rationalise doing what they thi
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by joggery 10y ago
Should thou not copiest this book most faithfully, taking care afterwards to dispatch it to three of thy brothers, thy brains shall be cudgelled forth and fed to the crows.
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by joggery 10y ago
Prisons are dysfunctional and cost too much. Why isn't GPS-tagging, curfew and public record sufficient to protect society? Reform could only be somewhere where >90% people are non-criminal e.g. army, monastery https://en
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by joggery 10y ago
Check out healthcare costs by age: http://blogs-images.forbes.com/danmunro/files/2014/04/hccost... Hence the importance of research into life extension technology combined with provision of assisted suic
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by joggery 10y ago
Here's one existing measure of temperature: http://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/ Two decimal places looks pretty sharp to me!
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by joggery 10y ago
Solar is expanding nicely on its own. Nuclear is expanding, but too slowly. The reason it takes so long to build is because of bureaucratic regulation due to historical opposition. Now, if we're serious about ending climate change, w
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by joggery 10y ago
Changing curriculums is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, I'm afraid. Future generations will wonder how we could be so heartless as to coop children up in classrooms and require them to study random subjects. The correct approac

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