Are we, in fact, waking up to woke?
>To be creative, scientists need libraries and laboratories and the company of other scientists; certainly a quiet and untroubled life is a help This is contradicted by Richard Hamming in his lecture on creativity. He…
The Consistency Principle can be annoying too when used exploitatively. I walked away from a gym membership once when they tried to charge a joining fee in the last minute.…
Yes, only today I noticed a fine free domain recording of a work by Rudyard Kipling has been appropriated by audible with the Librivox blurb removed and the narrator misattributed.
The treatments don't exist yet apart from a few stem cell treatments e.g. for Parkinson's disease. But there are clear criteria: there are the seven categories of cell damage proposed by Aubrey de Grey over a decade…
https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/ > [...] We’ve barely scratched the surface of optics and camera lens A real genius certainly, but, I'm always doing this; bad choice of metaphor here!
Yes! I like the garbage collection analogy and we already know that children brought up without parents do badly. Why would an AGI be any different, let alone an AGI brought up in virtual chains for safety's sake. What…
Worth emphasising that the knowledge of how to do these things like tying shoelaces and writing topology papers is contained in the surrounding culture. So if a machine can learn this culture, much of the complexity is…
Not having to sign for deliveries.
Maybe the 'Do Easy' strategy helps a drug user to cope with the low dopamine levels during the hangover period, i.e. when not high.
In some cases it might be due to the curse of knowledge. You assume because you understand it that the subject must be pretty simple for others.
The main idea of the book is the very exciting idea of reference frames which are created by cortical columns and whose function is to model aspects of the world such as physical objects and abstract concepts. Thinking…
Yes, I hate that motivation. More trivially there are people who enjoy baiting and winding other people up. Why? I don't know. However I think I know the reason it's permitted to exist: because it makes its victims more…
His magnificent 'Dragon Speech' also made it clear that he'd already lost some of his marbles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrj4S24074
Yes, which piece was that btw? I'm learning Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G minor, probably the hardest piece for me to date. I'm not timing the process but this must have been going on for six months by now. Practice…
Trying to enhance or disable healthy genes isn't the same as fixing known disease-causing mutations. Moreover, identifying harmful mutations can't tell you how to build superhumans. So I think the similarity is only…
Curing genetic diseases is going to turn unlucky people into more normal people, not privileged people into superhumans.
Yes, I wonder too. Yet isolation does seem to be a component of creative achievement. Feynman would be another example like Von Neumann. Off-the-charts intelligence and admired for his intelligence, his honesty and…
As easy as it is to admire intelligence it's really motivation which is key, which is the admirable thing about people. VN could have accomplished far more if he'd been less concerned with prestige, academies, spy…
Yes! It wasn't until I'd posted the question that I realised its aptness for today (Easter Sunday). However I'm not saying people should believe in an afterlife. Rather I'm reflecting that not wanting there to be an…
What if we're in a simulation and getting to level 2 requires that one prefer consciousness not to cease upon death?
Clearly you are a golfer.
Cotton sheets help to remind me. I don't know what people slept on in history (tho I hear that heather was good) but clean sheets and cotton pyjamas are fantastic.
No I really think society can only improve, albeit slowly, by problem-solving. Firstly one has to identify a problem and take ownership of it. But outrage is about blaming other people and refusing to take ownership.
Indeed. Giant technology companies are effectively part of government now. They make and enforce the rules about public discourse. The libertarian argument used to support censorship is that a private group or business…
Are we, in fact, waking up to woke?
>To be creative, scientists need libraries and laboratories and the company of other scientists; certainly a quiet and untroubled life is a help This is contradicted by Richard Hamming in his lecture on creativity. He…
The Consistency Principle can be annoying too when used exploitatively. I walked away from a gym membership once when they tried to charge a joining fee in the last minute.…
Yes, only today I noticed a fine free domain recording of a work by Rudyard Kipling has been appropriated by audible with the Librivox blurb removed and the narrator misattributed.
The treatments don't exist yet apart from a few stem cell treatments e.g. for Parkinson's disease. But there are clear criteria: there are the seven categories of cell damage proposed by Aubrey de Grey over a decade…
https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/ > [...] We’ve barely scratched the surface of optics and camera lens A real genius certainly, but, I'm always doing this; bad choice of metaphor here!
Yes! I like the garbage collection analogy and we already know that children brought up without parents do badly. Why would an AGI be any different, let alone an AGI brought up in virtual chains for safety's sake. What…
Worth emphasising that the knowledge of how to do these things like tying shoelaces and writing topology papers is contained in the surrounding culture. So if a machine can learn this culture, much of the complexity is…
Not having to sign for deliveries.
Maybe the 'Do Easy' strategy helps a drug user to cope with the low dopamine levels during the hangover period, i.e. when not high.
In some cases it might be due to the curse of knowledge. You assume because you understand it that the subject must be pretty simple for others.
The main idea of the book is the very exciting idea of reference frames which are created by cortical columns and whose function is to model aspects of the world such as physical objects and abstract concepts. Thinking…
Yes, I hate that motivation. More trivially there are people who enjoy baiting and winding other people up. Why? I don't know. However I think I know the reason it's permitted to exist: because it makes its victims more…
His magnificent 'Dragon Speech' also made it clear that he'd already lost some of his marbles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrj4S24074
Yes, which piece was that btw? I'm learning Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G minor, probably the hardest piece for me to date. I'm not timing the process but this must have been going on for six months by now. Practice…
Trying to enhance or disable healthy genes isn't the same as fixing known disease-causing mutations. Moreover, identifying harmful mutations can't tell you how to build superhumans. So I think the similarity is only…
Curing genetic diseases is going to turn unlucky people into more normal people, not privileged people into superhumans.
Yes, I wonder too. Yet isolation does seem to be a component of creative achievement. Feynman would be another example like Von Neumann. Off-the-charts intelligence and admired for his intelligence, his honesty and…
As easy as it is to admire intelligence it's really motivation which is key, which is the admirable thing about people. VN could have accomplished far more if he'd been less concerned with prestige, academies, spy…
Yes! It wasn't until I'd posted the question that I realised its aptness for today (Easter Sunday). However I'm not saying people should believe in an afterlife. Rather I'm reflecting that not wanting there to be an…
What if we're in a simulation and getting to level 2 requires that one prefer consciousness not to cease upon death?
Clearly you are a golfer.
Cotton sheets help to remind me. I don't know what people slept on in history (tho I hear that heather was good) but clean sheets and cotton pyjamas are fantastic.
No I really think society can only improve, albeit slowly, by problem-solving. Firstly one has to identify a problem and take ownership of it. But outrage is about blaming other people and refusing to take ownership.
Indeed. Giant technology companies are effectively part of government now. They make and enforce the rules about public discourse. The libertarian argument used to support censorship is that a private group or business…