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> What if we built simulated environments where AIs could gather embodied experience? Would we be able to create learning scenarios where agents could learn some of these cognitive…

You did not ask the same thing. You framed the question such that readers are supposed to look at their current lives and realize nothing is different ergo AGI is lame. Your approa…

I would love to see a model designed by curating the training data so that the model produces the best responses possible. Then again, the work required to create a training set th…

The Corporate religion demands unwavering profit orientation. "Ethics" is just barely maintained right above the limits of market research. All for the betterment of man, amirite?

I went looking for more info on Libervia and noticed your site is down.

Reconstructing from what ?

I'm all for ceremonial drumming but there's gotta be a specific pace that fits their definition of "progressively" and i feel like that detail is lacking. Maybe there's more in the…

Should i have clarified "no music you can find online or otherwise make use of in any way"? I appreciate the honest effort to come up with things! I'll see if i can find that anywh…

> encouraged by the tempo of the music progressively increasing to the end of HVB How does this part work? No real music does this so did they make their own for the study? Or do t…

"native" here means using the same toolkit as the desktop environment.

Where is it mentioned that the arena experiment has been dropped?

I'm sorry, but this is essentially racism prettied up. The research is about language bitrate not about regional speaking rate variations within a language. Tangentially, I'm relat…

I won't argue that this wasn't the appropriate action given the circumstances in capitalism today but we've got to stop legitimizing buying companies and then watching the market o…

Cosmology, like many sciences, is about learning the scientific truth through the remnants left behind. Just like we can see an early earth by digging, we can see an early universe…

> Try to think of an object that doesn't exist, and isn't based on anything you've ever seen before, a completely new object with no basis in our reality. It's impossible. This is …

What I've never understood about this argument is this: How often are you passing around data that you don't fully understand? Also, people use types and then end up reaching for r…

Elected officials should make the average salary from the year prior. If it's not enough to survive then they'll need to do something about it!

They said that implicitly by choosing to debate a trivial sentence designed to impart the reader with the sense of importance that this principle holds for the OP. This kind of ton…

As a parent, I often found that if I actually explained why instead of the usual "Because I told you so", then I got a lot further in making them rationally arrive at the right beh…

You're making it sound like a "right" is something you "get". Political philosophy typically defines a "right" as something that you have before the social contract and a good gove…

> The US Army sanctioned and actively endorsed the wholesale slaughter of bison herds. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison_hunting#Government_inv...

From the article you posted: > Maja R was sentenced to a weekend in jail after her comments because she had a previous conviction for theft and had not attending the court hearing …

Salvador Dali would hold an object like a spoon in his hand while sitting in front of his canvas and fall asleep. This would cause him to drop the spoon waking him back up and then…

All of the "more nickels" noise is being paid for by the penny copper supplier.