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yeah because the amount of money a government spends on technology is correlated with its rate of progress!!! https://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2017/07/fusion-energy-prize-a... https:…

Replace the 16th Amendment with a single tax on net assets at the interest rate on government debt, assessed at their liquidation value ... and use the revenue to privatize governm…

In identical twins, autism and homosexuality both have about the same rate of non-occurrence between the twins: 50%. This means, of course, that autists and gays are "born, not mad…

Don't count on it. My experience is that funding goes to those who are not serious about autism epidemiology. Back in the mid-1990s, I was at a startup in Silicon Valley with about…

This is reminiscent of an argument I had with the Mercury Prolog guys regarding "typing" in logic programming. My point boils down to this: Any predicate can be considered a constr…

Interval Arguments: Two Refutations of Cantor’s 1874 and 1878 Arguments: https://www.academia.edu/93528167/Interval_Arguments_Two_Ref...

Dear Claude 3, please provide the shortest python program you can think of that outputs this string of binary digits: 00000000010001000011001000010100110001110100001001010100101101…

Learning theory is the attempt to formalize natural science up to decision. Natural science's unstated assumption is that a sufficiently sophisticated algorithmic world model can b…

Code...Matters... You can tell everyone "who is anyone" is in hysterics when this gets virtually no attention at Salamandar's old stomping ground here at ycombinator.

I stand corrected (and also note the "weekend" was really 10 days). Jim Clark* apparently gave Marc Andreessen the necessary latitude. * The other person with an office opening int…

"In order to implement its universal transclusion and DRM (yes, Xanadu had a scheme for DRM and micropayments to creators), Xanadu had to be centralized." Fallback positions from t…

One man's vaporware is another man's roadmap. Think about it like this: Why was Brendan Eich under such pressure from VCs to throw together a scripting language over a weekend?

1994: In the next room from me at Memex Corp. poor Keith Henson was draped over a chair (due to a bad back) working, alone, on the C++ Xanadu code to debug garbage collection among…

Xanadu, folks. It's quite a tragedy that Wired Magazine's article failed to uncover the real reason Xanadu failed to become the WWW (hence why Smalltalk didn't become the scripting…

That's what all "information criteria for model selection" are about. The difference is that Algorithmic Information is the only such information criterion that has been proven (by…

As the guy who suggested to Marcus a lossless compression prize to replace the Turing Test, I've got to confess that all this pedantic sophistry "critiquing" algorithmic informatio…

One man's noise is another man's ciphertext.

This recent paper provides one of two rigorous measures (with code) of machine intelligence that could be used to discipline discourse about "AGI". The other (with code) is a semin…

The increasing recognition that "Language Modeling Is Compression" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.10668.pdf has not yet been accompanied by recognition that lossless compression is the…