nmaley

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by nmaley 6y ago
As an exercise, I spent hours and hours and hours re-writing a chapter of my PhD thesis strictly according to Sword's principles. The eventual result was shorter, clearer and more readable. But it was hard work, and I'm not sure t
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by nmaley 6y ago
It's a really deep problem, which bothers a lot of philosophers and cognitive scientists. I don't pretend to know the answer, but here are some speculations. We can speculate that consciousness is some kind of a representational p
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by nmaley 6y ago
The relationship between language and the world is this: utterances both signify and depict objects and events in the real world. So, if I say "I saw Alec Baldwin at the bastketball game last night", then that depicts an event in
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by nmaley 6y ago
The theory needs a lot of development, so it would be hard to say whether it could or could not comply with Bells theorem. But since it is Turing complete presumably there is some variant of the theory which complies with Bell's theore
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by nmaley 7y ago
So true! I built a solution for a legal services outfit a few years ago. First bug they see, they want to sue you. Forget about working with the vendor to refine the solution. They just want to sue you. Never want to work with lawyers again
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by nmaley 7y ago
Has anyone observed that the problem of object classification is really just a component of the prediction problem? That the old lady doing donuts in the wheelchair is identifiable as such because her appearance changes in certain (predicta
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by nmaley 8y ago
I'm sorry, but this didn't cut it for me. It suggested mostly inappropriate substitutions. It is using a simplistic model, when there are already much better ones available. If you need to inject vitality into your prose, try this