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by ozy 5mo ago
So I have to switch away from cursor? Any recommendations?
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by ozy 8mo ago
I really like the idea of openscad, or this, or the many alternatives. But when I say a shape with these and these dimensions, the next shape should attach to it somewhere. And then I want to say: chamfer all outside edges. But in all these
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by ozy 11mo ago
Useless unless the logical operators receive their rhs unevaluated. And that is generalized as a language feature.
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by ozy 11mo ago
That is why you cannot ask the room for semantic changes. Like “if I call an umbrella a monkey, and it will rain today, what do I need to bring?” Unless we suppose those books describe how to implement a memory of sorts, and how to reason,
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by ozy 11mo ago
Maybe consciousness is exactly like simulated fire. It does a lot inside the simulation, but is nothing on the outside.
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by ozy 11mo ago
Most of those are abstractions, but not a runtime overhead. NonNull even enables an optimization not available to most other languages. And you can wonder, is this accidental complexity? Or is this necessary complexity?
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by ozy 2y ago
Why do statistics like GDP in absolute numbers? The only thing that graph shows is that China was dirt poor in 1995, and is now still only at 25-35% of USA levels.
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by ozy 3y ago
Why would AGI be bound to human made models? Why can it no develop its own?
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by ozy 3y ago
I think a discussion on induction is best done by splitting the resulting models in two: models based on statistics, and models based on (abstract/iconic) simulation. (Eg all swans are white vs all swans lay eggs.) Since our reality is
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by ozy 4y ago
What we know by experience, by abstraction, or empirically, are three distinct modes of knowing. Experiences are directly known and always true. (Experiences might reference other potentially false things, and might be false indirectly.) Th
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by ozy 4y ago
It is a virtual time machine. You can run time forwards, explore various possible futures, then pick the future aligned most with your preferences, capabilities, and taste for risk.
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by ozy 4y ago
Analogizing with software engineering, this stuff becomes funny: - software is all about adding numbers, new study finds - software is all about calling functions, says new theory - software is all about objects, say scientists - software i
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by ozy 4y ago
> But in this world, consciousness is, at root, a physical phenomenon, not a purely computational phenomenon. That is entirely unknown. If it were a purely computational phenomenon, it would explain a lot, and nothing in this article arg
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by ozy 5y ago
FYI: Little kids unpair ikea lamps with ease if there is still a physical switch.
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by ozy 5y ago
This might be a good thing. There are a few responses possible: 1. Do nothing, public gets angry. 2. Make bitcoin, or its mining, illegal. However, what is the criteria? All blockchains? Should google be illegal too? Both are just a digital
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by ozy 6y ago
Space is enormous! While our capacity to search it for signs of intelligence is miniscule.
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by ozy 6y ago
Bending your spacetime frame of reference costs energy because you have to leverage something and change its frame. And you can use your bend spacetime frame to extract energy by bringing it in contact with another frame. But the bending it
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by ozy 6y ago
A cell is a regulator, something that selectively responds to internal and external signals. It doesn't require new math, it requires modeling the signals and responses accurately. But it is a huge, parallel, continuous "state mac
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by ozy 6y ago
http://onnlucky.com My musings on consciousness, materialism, information, knowledge, life, the universe. Might not all be correct ;) But I think must will find it quite different from the "normal" views.
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Consciousness as Broad Informational Access(onnlucky.com)
1 points by ozy 7y ago|0 comments
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by ozy 7y ago
It isn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetic_codes On the other hand, once a certain layer of functionality exists, and starts being used to build on top of, that layer will resist change, because any v
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by ozy 7y ago
Now do the same for the devil: "The devil, by definition, is that for which no greater evil can be conceived. The devil exists in the understanding. If the devil exists in the understanding, we could imagine him to be greater by existi
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by ozy 7y ago
> The fact that all known life shares a common genetic > structure implies a common ancestor. Or a (local) optimum.
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by ozy 7y ago
1. rarely does that come up in practical problems 2. for many reasons (and completeness is one) the machine cannot prove the next version is better, thus must discard it
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by ozy 8y ago
Imagine a database that stores strings using a common prefix method, one could make the same claim: this database does not store or retrieve strings. And yet it does. The model of what something does is implemented by an underlying mechanis
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by ozy 8y ago
I would want a study that focuses on the opposite: what is the lowest bar a person trying to deliberaty foil such a system can reach. My bet: around 50-150ms.
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by ozy 8y ago
If you have a theory of consciousness, but it doesn't include something about learning, the theory is incomplete, most likely wrong.
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by ozy 8y ago
Exactly, one ontology of knowledge is: pointers (names), categories (matchers/recognizers), models (descriptions of systems). The first two have all the problems philosophers talk about. But the last one does not. Not even underdetermi
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by ozy 8y ago
Note most gettier cases are plays on our intuitions: What feels like a pointer is actually a category. That is, it feels like it points to one, but it points to many. Like both examples given here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by ozy 8y ago
In either scenario, there can be knowledge about the future, which, paradoxically, might cause that future never to materialize.

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