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So I have to switch away from cursor? Any recommendations?

I really like the idea of openscad, or this, or the many alternatives. But when I say a shape with these and these dimensions, the next shape should attach to it somewhere. And the…

Useless unless the logical operators receive their rhs unevaluated. And that is generalized as a language feature.

That is why you cannot ask the room for semantic changes. Like “if I call an umbrella a monkey, and it will rain today, what do I need to bring?” Unless we suppose those books desc…

Maybe consciousness is exactly like simulated fire. It does a lot inside the simulation, but is nothing on the outside.

Most of those are abstractions, but not a runtime overhead. NonNull even enables an optimization not available to most other languages. And you can wonder, is this accidental compl…

Why do statistics like GDP in absolute numbers? The only thing that graph shows is that China was dirt poor in 1995, and is now still only at 25-35% of USA levels.

Why would AGI be bound to human made models? Why can it no develop its own?

I think a discussion on induction is best done by splitting the resulting models in two: models based on statistics, and models based on (abstract/iconic) simulation. (Eg all swans…

What we know by experience, by abstraction, or empirically, are three distinct modes of knowing. Experiences are directly known and always true. (Experiences might reference other …

It is a virtual time machine. You can run time forwards, explore various possible futures, then pick the future aligned most with your preferences, capabilities, and taste for risk…

Analogizing with software engineering, this stuff becomes funny: - software is all about adding numbers, new study finds - software is all about calling functions, says new theory …

> But in this world, consciousness is, at root, a physical phenomenon, not a purely computational phenomenon. That is entirely unknown. If it were a purely computational phenomenon…

FYI: Little kids unpair ikea lamps with ease if there is still a physical switch.

This might be a good thing. There are a few responses possible: 1. Do nothing, public gets angry. 2. Make bitcoin, or its mining, illegal. However, what is the criteria? All blockc…

Space is enormous! While our capacity to search it for signs of intelligence is miniscule.

Bending your spacetime frame of reference costs energy because you have to leverage something and change its frame. And you can use your bend spacetime frame to extract energy by b…

A cell is a regulator, something that selectively responds to internal and external signals. It doesn't require new math, it requires modeling the signals and responses accurately.…

http://onnlucky.com My musings on consciousness, materialism, information, knowledge, life, the universe. Might not all be correct ;) But I think must will find it quite different …

It isn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetic_codes On the other hand, once a certain layer of functionality exists, and starts being used to build on top of, that layer …

Now do the same for the devil: "The devil, by definition, is that for which no greater evil can be conceived. The devil exists in the understanding. If the devil exists in the unde…

> The fact that all known life shares a common genetic > structure implies a common ancestor. Or a (local) optimum.

1. rarely does that come up in practical problems 2. for many reasons (and completeness is one) the machine cannot prove the next version is better, thus must discard it

Imagine a database that stores strings using a common prefix method, one could make the same claim: this database does not store or retrieve strings. And yet it does. The model of …