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by makebelieve 7y ago
I second this. I found it easier to spin up servers on other services and run big install scripts than to try do decode Amazon's naming/acronym hell. The requirement to connect invented names to computational activity is big over
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by makebelieve 9y ago
free means no fees. free roads have no tolls. free concerts do not charge ticket prices. closed markets, toll roads, private venues all charge fees.
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by makebelieve 10y ago
I found this approach deeply troubling because it moves us away form semantic design towards logic design... which always runs into problems when the database itself becomes semantic content. The write up was rather confusing. The solution
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by makebelieve 10y ago
I recommend introducing an explicit sexual harassment policy. Have each employees sign that policy form indicating they understand the sexual harassment policy and that violating it is an offense that will result in termination.
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by makebelieve 11y ago
If we look at how organism manage semantic information, we know it is done with cells and cell clusters and making "connections" between cells in nervous systems. (it isn't all nervous system cells though). The cells exist a
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by makebelieve 11y ago
I was not trying to connect rule 110 to Searle's argument per se, but rather to the critique of Searle's argument. Namely, that criticisms of the lookup table are not criticisms of Searle's argument or the point he makes. a
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by makebelieve 11y ago
I think the Searle/Aaronson thing is sorta dead (we're arguing over what, 3 paragraphs?) But... You touch on a very interesting point in your reply here: "You'd need something "outside of" the lookup table tha
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by makebelieve 11y ago
Your points are all good. But they have nothing to do with meaning, or with semantics. Cellular automata are lookup tables, and Wolfram and others proved some cellular automata rules are Turing complete computers. https://en.wiki
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by makebelieve 11y ago
you might want to watch this lecture by Searle at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHKwIYsPXLg
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by makebelieve 11y ago
a system that simulates some process or system is not the process or system it simulates. Just take writing programs: Can we simulate the process of writing programs? Could we create a system that writes and compiles programs? What about w
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by makebelieve 11y ago
Searle uses a lookup table argument in the chinese room. I was making the case that lookup tables as a computational tool can be turing complete, and I'm assuming Searle covered Turing completeness in his argument. (I read the chinese
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by makebelieve 11y ago
Um, he doesn't. He is talking about Searle's argument, but he is not refuting it. Explicitly he says: "Where others invoked complexity considerations to argue with Searle about the metaphysical question, I’m invoking them t
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by makebelieve 11y ago
Searle is making an argument about awareness. That a computer system is explicitly unaware of any of it's content. That it's programs are functions and the data also performs a purely functional role. In essence, computers cann
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by makebelieve 11y ago
Aaronson does not critique the chinese room argument at all, at least not in the paper cited.
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by makebelieve 11y ago
An interpreter for metabolic like computing to produce cell like structures as a mechanism to create machine consciousness.
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by makebelieve 11y ago
A money manager. It knows all the expenses and allocates an allowance. it tells you to get a new job and to trim expenses in a sensible way. it tells you to stop buying so many clothes/books/whatever. it asks you to repeat wh
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by makebelieve 11y ago
it doesn't matter where you start, it matters what you do now. there is NOTHING you can do about the past. zero. it is impossible to change the past. You can do things today. find the sweet spot of bliss. where what you do is fun,
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by makebelieve 12y ago
I didn't offer this as shock and awe. it came from the realization I had, living alone, incredibly poor, and feeling only a bleak future was possible, while standing outside a building tall enough to do the job, whose roof I could easi