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I think asking some basic troubleshooting questions is helpful. Is your product worth paying for? Is it even worth someone’s time to look at it or download it for free? Is it the t…

Naturally, the first step for AI mathematics would be generating proofs of theorems that humans have already deemed interesting, rather than the AI generating entirely new research…

There’s a very simple solution, of course: turn off the computer and physically interact with real people.

>Each time this happens, the AGI pessimists raise the bar (a little) for what constitutes AGI. Let’s say I have a coworker. We write code together, but we also hang out outside of …

Do you think you’ll see true AGI in your lifetime? I certainly don’t think I’ll see it in mine. No other domain of the sciences is “complete” yet. There are still unanswered questi…

I agree. People will be quick to say that that’s just your nostalgia talking, but taken to an extreme, that argument would entail that culture and patterns of behavior never change…

Well, no, I wouldn’t say that my post was about “intention”. I could imagine, in principle, someone saying “hey GPT-3, write me a philosophical masterpiece” or “write me a hit nove…

Between this and DALL-E 2, I’ve been ruminating on David Hilbert’s old quip about a student: “For a mathematician, he did not have enough imagination. But now he is a poet, and eve…

I don’t really disagree. I’m not a luddite and I don’t advocate for turning off the internet. Computers are certainly here to stay. It’s an extremely complex issue, and I don’t hav…

Sorry, that may have been poorly worded. I wanted to preempt the objection of “well, you say you don’t want to be dependent on smartphones, but then you’ll just be dependent on som…

I simply won’t use any service that requires a phone and doesn’t allow other options. I am opposed to a future in which phones are a necessity of life rather than merely a convenie…

Yours don't?

>Honestly, I'd assume that pretty much any of these flaws are more fixable than you'd expect. The first 90% of the project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% of the project takes …

>So what? DALL-E 2 is very impressive. So impressive that many people have wondered if all commercial artists will be out of a job as soon as DALL-E 2 is made publicly available. T…

>Instead, we're only interested in finding the logically valid theorems which serve the above purpose of explaining the patterns in the world concisely. That's just empirically fal…

Oh, now I see how my sentence was ambiguous. The "anxiously enumerating pros and cons part" is bad. Cohabitation is fine.

>We spent weeks anxiously enumerating the pros and cons of cohabitation. The older I get, the more I come around to the conclusion that thought is bad.

I mean, I know this conversation is all about railing against the snobbish "you just don't understand fine art" attitude, but I find the stubborn "he really needs to reign it in an…

>You'd essentially be stating that a whole domain of tradition, practice, and procedure which organically grows and evolves, and I might add, in almost logical progressions at time…

The final chapter is a lengthy stream-of-consciousness with almost no punctuation. Other parts of the novel are structured more traditionally.

>I now know that liking Harry Potter more than Joyce's "Ulysses" doesn't mean there's something wrong with my brain. Oh, I do wish people wouldn't bash on Ulysses as much... there'…

>The vast majority of philosophers are not good writers. I never understood this claim. I have to assume that people are letting their judgement of the content affect the judgement…

>It's kind of funny to see such a profound and important lesson distilled in to such a kitsch cross-stitch type musing. Yeah, this is definitely one of the aspects of PG's writing …

It's not bad writing, and it's certainly not a Sokal-style hoax. These are the kinds of things that philosophers think about and this is how they write about them. I take it you're…