mjgeddes

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by mjgeddes 3y ago
I usually put a couple of keywords in brackets at the beginning (before the body of the prompt) to provide some context
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by mjgeddes 3y ago
Yeah, I noticed with 'Gemini Pro' , it didn't seem to be able to remember much about earlier outputs in the conversation (apparently little to no context window), which obviously drastically dumbs it down. I was starting to g
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by mjgeddes 3y ago
Well, it says I'm in to 'Bard Advanced' (which is the same as 'Gemini Ultra'). I only did a couple of queries so far, text output seemed only marginally better than 'Gemini Pro', which I was just starting
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by mjgeddes 4y ago
I believe I can answer the question 'Why Anything'. See my other post in thread outlining my 'Actualization Theory'. I think there's a 'ground state' of 'possible worlds' that must exist by virt
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by mjgeddes 4y ago
Actualization Theory & Meaning of Life (“Why Quantum Mechanics?” - Shtetl Optimized, Jan 26th/27th, 2022) (1). The notion of “Objective Reality” is a limit that only makes sense after infinite elapsed time from the perspective of o
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by mjgeddes 7y ago
Yup, wikipedia already maps all human knowledge. In fact , you don't need to map everything, just central concepts in every field. I think there's a law of diminishing returns - summaries of knowledge are extremely useful, but a
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by mjgeddes 8y ago
The work of Ana Wierzbicka and Cliff Goddard studied 'Semantic Primes', 'the set of semantic concepts that are innately understood but cannot be expressed in simpler terms'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by mjgeddes 8y ago
The 'scientific method' is not something that can be reduced to formal reasoning. Bayesian inference is a type of formal reasoning for making predictions, and as such, is a mathematical 'toy model' that doesn't cor
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by mjgeddes 9y ago
Yes, we need a logic-based approach rather than a statistical one for NLP if you want to incorporate things like attention and memory. The full range of non-classical logics should be looked at, including Modal, Fuzzy etc. We need to exten
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by mjgeddes 10y ago
Let me just elaborate on the ‘complex motivations’ idea, because I certainly think that ‘orthogonality’ is the weak point in the AGI doomsday story. Orthogonality is defined by Bostrom as the postulate that a super-intelligence can have nea
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by mjgeddes 11y ago
Bayesianism is a 'grand unified theory of reasoning' that all of science be should be based on assigning (and updating) probabilities for a list of possible outcomes; the probabilities are supposed to indicate your subjective degr
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by mjgeddes 11y ago
Bayesianism is a 'grand unified theory of reasoning' that all of science be should be based on assigning (and updating) probabilities for a list of possible outcomes; the probabilities are supposed to indicate your subjective deg