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Yeah, I noticed with 'Gemini Pro' , it didn't seem to be able to remember much about earlier outputs in the conversation (apparently little to no context window), which obviously d…

Well, it says I'm in to 'Bard Advanced' (which is the same as 'Gemini Ultra'). I only did a couple of queries so far, text output seemed only marginally better than 'Gemini Pro', w…

I believe I can answer the question 'Why Anything'. See my other post in thread outlining my 'Actualization Theory'. I think there's a 'ground state' of 'possible worlds' that must…

Actualization Theory & Meaning of Life (“Why Quantum Mechanics?” - Shtetl Optimized, Jan 26th/27th, 2022) (1). The notion of “Objective Reality” is a limit that only makes sense af…

Yup, wikipedia already maps all human knowledge. In fact , you don't need to map everything, just central concepts in every field. I think there's a law of diminishing returns - su…

The work of Ana Wierzbicka and Cliff Goddard studied 'Semantic Primes', 'the set of semantic concepts that are innately understood but cannot be expressed in simpler terms'. https:…

The 'scientific method' is not something that can be reduced to formal reasoning. Bayesian inference is a type of formal reasoning for making predictions, and as such, is a mathema…

Yes, we need a logic-based approach rather than a statistical one for NLP if you want to incorporate things like attention and memory. The full range of non-classical logics should…

Let me just elaborate on the ‘complex motivations’ idea, because I certainly think that ‘orthogonality’ is the weak point in the AGI doomsday story. Orthogonality is defined by Bos…

Bayesianism is a 'grand unified theory of reasoning' that all of science be should be based on assigning (and updating) probabilities for a list of possible outcomes; the probabili…

Bayesianism is a 'grand unified theory of reasoning' that all of science be should be based on assigning (and updating) probabilities for a list of possible outcomes; the probabili…