Only because "actual understanding" is ambiguously defined. Meaning is an association of A with B. Our brains have a large associative array with the symbols for the sound "dog" is associated with the image of "dog'…
A ridiculous argument. Turing machines don't know anything about the program they are executing. In fact, Turing machines don't "know" anything. Turing machines don't know how to fly a plane, translate a language, or…
I don't remember when I first started using BBEdit. Perhaps not long after the demise of MPW. I still use it for everything but Lisp development.
Just recently a black child, who was born at home with jaundice, was taken from the parents to be given care in a hospital, because a doctor didn’t think the parents would provide effective treatment.…
They also "broke" the ability to set/remove a bookmark by double-tapping the page. The more Books degrades to become like Kindle, the less incentive I have to buy books from the Apple store.
I'm a theist. His writings wouldn't have converted me, either.
It’s the same complaint made against the ending of Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galáctica. All this has happened before and all this will happen again.
Thanks!
What do we do with a theory that conforms to every measurement ever made, but whose predictions aren’t testable? After all, we’re already there. We’ll never measure the interior of a black hole, for example. I think our…
Not a darn thing. Don’t like them, don’t need them, don’t want to need them. I understand this (luxury) might not apply to everyone.
“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” is a great short story. It won a Hugo in 1974.
Should the person whose content is blocked be able to face their accuser, know precisely what line they crossed over, and have recourse against arbitrary, malicious, incompetent ... moderation? As it now stands, one…
You are confusing theory with practice. Back then, computers were expensive and rare. The general student population at my university had two choices: the CDC 6400, or an HP time-sharing system that ran BASIC. A friend…
The Reference Frame also discussed this[1] and showed why the paper is wrong. [1] https://motls.blogspot.com/2018/04/frauchiger-renner-trivial...
Of three news articles of which I have first hand knowledge, two completely misreported facts. They were exercises in reinforcing a narrative - the truth be damned. The third was accurate, but it was over 45 years ago.
Clockwork parts? No. Parts that select from a combination of inputs? Yes. Computability theory demands repeated combination/selection and memory. It doesn’t otherwise care how this is accomplished.
Men know this reference and find it funny. Boys don’t. //smiley_face
If Apple has to open their infrastructure then there needs to be reciprocity. I want Apple Pay. I don’t want Wal-Mart pay, Starbucks pay, CurrentC, ...
Of course a neuroscientist can understand a microprocessor. That’s easy. Let me know when a microprocessor can understand a neuroscientist.
First, the answer to whether or not an alien would understand the lambda calculus is no different than whether a dog or a dolphin can understand the lambda calculus. It depends on the wiring of their brain. The lambda…
It has to agree with every prior measurement in Quantum Mechanics and Relativity. That, in itself, is impressive.
This is wrong in so many ways. First, I know the language. I’ve been doing this for almost 50 years. This isn’t a question of what the language allows but what the coder is trying to do. Second, experience has taught me…
“Bullshit” is in the eye of the beholder. One view is that if it makes money, it isn’t bullshit — because someone values it enough to pay for it.
How do you arrive at an acceptable secular morality, especially since science claims that it cannot speak to morality?
Not according to my taste in beer, black coffee and gin and tonic (https://www.popsci.com/psychopaths-may-prefer-bitter-foods)
Only because "actual understanding" is ambiguously defined. Meaning is an association of A with B. Our brains have a large associative array with the symbols for the sound "dog" is associated with the image of "dog'…
A ridiculous argument. Turing machines don't know anything about the program they are executing. In fact, Turing machines don't "know" anything. Turing machines don't know how to fly a plane, translate a language, or…
I don't remember when I first started using BBEdit. Perhaps not long after the demise of MPW. I still use it for everything but Lisp development.
Just recently a black child, who was born at home with jaundice, was taken from the parents to be given care in a hospital, because a doctor didn’t think the parents would provide effective treatment.…
They also "broke" the ability to set/remove a bookmark by double-tapping the page. The more Books degrades to become like Kindle, the less incentive I have to buy books from the Apple store.
I'm a theist. His writings wouldn't have converted me, either.
It’s the same complaint made against the ending of Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galáctica. All this has happened before and all this will happen again.
Thanks!
What do we do with a theory that conforms to every measurement ever made, but whose predictions aren’t testable? After all, we’re already there. We’ll never measure the interior of a black hole, for example. I think our…
Not a darn thing. Don’t like them, don’t need them, don’t want to need them. I understand this (luxury) might not apply to everyone.
“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” is a great short story. It won a Hugo in 1974.
Should the person whose content is blocked be able to face their accuser, know precisely what line they crossed over, and have recourse against arbitrary, malicious, incompetent ... moderation? As it now stands, one…
You are confusing theory with practice. Back then, computers were expensive and rare. The general student population at my university had two choices: the CDC 6400, or an HP time-sharing system that ran BASIC. A friend…
The Reference Frame also discussed this[1] and showed why the paper is wrong. [1] https://motls.blogspot.com/2018/04/frauchiger-renner-trivial...
Of three news articles of which I have first hand knowledge, two completely misreported facts. They were exercises in reinforcing a narrative - the truth be damned. The third was accurate, but it was over 45 years ago.
Clockwork parts? No. Parts that select from a combination of inputs? Yes. Computability theory demands repeated combination/selection and memory. It doesn’t otherwise care how this is accomplished.
Men know this reference and find it funny. Boys don’t. //smiley_face
If Apple has to open their infrastructure then there needs to be reciprocity. I want Apple Pay. I don’t want Wal-Mart pay, Starbucks pay, CurrentC, ...
Of course a neuroscientist can understand a microprocessor. That’s easy. Let me know when a microprocessor can understand a neuroscientist.
First, the answer to whether or not an alien would understand the lambda calculus is no different than whether a dog or a dolphin can understand the lambda calculus. It depends on the wiring of their brain. The lambda…
It has to agree with every prior measurement in Quantum Mechanics and Relativity. That, in itself, is impressive.
This is wrong in so many ways. First, I know the language. I’ve been doing this for almost 50 years. This isn’t a question of what the language allows but what the coder is trying to do. Second, experience has taught me…
“Bullshit” is in the eye of the beholder. One view is that if it makes money, it isn’t bullshit — because someone values it enough to pay for it.
How do you arrive at an acceptable secular morality, especially since science claims that it cannot speak to morality?
Not according to my taste in beer, black coffee and gin and tonic (https://www.popsci.com/psychopaths-may-prefer-bitter-foods)