throw2500

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by throw2500 4y ago
Another one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory
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by throw2500 4y ago
The difference would be that in the movie case, there is a you that is being tricked, that is present even through the trickery. You're having the experience of something moving, but it's really your senses being tricked into cons
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by throw2500 4y ago
That explanation is too simple for those who think/feel subjective states exist, however. While someone may be fooled about what they're perceiving, they can't be fooled about that they're perceiving, from a first pers
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by throw2500 4y ago
> Pick any human. I claim there exists some subject that ChatGPT has a better understanding of than this human, based on a surface-level evaluation. Isn't that a low bar, though? For any human, you can find some subject that that hu
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by throw2500 4y ago
Does it have a branch where you hack your own utility function and gain +infinity utility?
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by throw2500 4y ago
From the Wikipedia article about the multi-armed bandit problem: >Originally considered by Allied scientists in World War II, it proved so intractable that, according to Peter Whittle, the problem was proposed to be dropped over Germany
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by throw2500 5y ago
Yudkowskyist rationalism is a prime example that what you simply banish out of hand may percolate back up through your ideas -- unless you know enough about whatever it is you're trying to banish to recognize it. The thing they tried t
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by throw2500 5y ago
Then how come WWII happened? Were the great dictators just irrational?
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by throw2500 5y ago
Because the world is impure and the link between the real world and the mathematical domain will never be ironclad. For instance, say that Joe makes a deepfake and then signs it with his key. Sure, it's beyond doubt (assuming keys were
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by throw2500 5y ago
> We are FAR beyond such coarse distinctions in the era of surveillance capitalism. Isn't that the point these days? To market at such a fine granularity that it becomes individuals? As long as the marketing algorithms still go &quo
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by throw2500 5y ago
Doesn't that prove too much? For any coin you can imagine a more deflationary version of that coin. Bitcoin has had plenty of such forks. The argument above would indicate that the most deflationary would win, but it doesn't. So i
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by throw2500 5y ago
The problem: the libertarian ideology that inspired Bitcoin explicitly denies that there can be a ruling class because free markets are optimal, distributed, and stay free forever. But a Pareto distribution is kind of the default wherever p
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by throw2500 5y ago
Isn't Agile more or less gradient descent (well, approximating the gradient for an undifferentiable function), applied to software development? The objective function is some function of the quality of the product, as measured by the c
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by throw2500 5y ago
The page seems a bit too heavily weighted towards SNARKs in particular and crypto currency applications in general. There's no mention of ZKPPs, for instance. Not all crypto is "crypto".