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'…
Wnat about Gödel incompleteness? Comptuers aren't formal systems. Turing machines have no notion of truth. Their programs may. So a program can have M > N axioms in which case one of the N+1 axioms recognizes the truth…
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.…
Earlier today I came across this on Scott Aaronson's site: "Also, are the ultimate equations that govern the universe “real,” while tables and chairs are “unreal” (in the sense of being no more than fuzzy approximate…
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.
The lock analogy fails. First, the viewer was given the data. Second, obfuscation is not a lock.
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.
Isn’t the ultimate answer always “we don’t know”, “because”, or “42”? It has to be deeply unsatisfying because we don’t know what the ultimate question is, do we? We can’t stop asking.
“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…
Not anymore. My wife and I now get more spam calls than real calls.
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…
Of all the nails that could be used to seal Pascal’s coffin, the one I use is that I can’t write ‘writeln’ in Pascal. Other than that, it was great in it’s time (mid 70’s for me).
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.
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'…
Wnat about Gödel incompleteness? Comptuers aren't formal systems. Turing machines have no notion of truth. Their programs may. So a program can have M > N axioms in which case one of the N+1 axioms recognizes the truth…
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.…
Earlier today I came across this on Scott Aaronson's site: "Also, are the ultimate equations that govern the universe “real,” while tables and chairs are “unreal” (in the sense of being no more than fuzzy approximate…
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.
The lock analogy fails. First, the viewer was given the data. Second, obfuscation is not a lock.
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.
Isn’t the ultimate answer always “we don’t know”, “because”, or “42”? It has to be deeply unsatisfying because we don’t know what the ultimate question is, do we? We can’t stop asking.
“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…
Not anymore. My wife and I now get more spam calls than real calls.
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…
Of all the nails that could be used to seal Pascal’s coffin, the one I use is that I can’t write ‘writeln’ in Pascal. Other than that, it was great in it’s time (mid 70’s for me).
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.