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Are we, in fact, waking up to woke ?

>To be creative, scientists need libraries and laboratories and the company of other scientists; certainly a quiet and untroubled life is a help This is contradicted by Richard Ham…

The Consistency Principle can be annoying too when used exploitatively. I walked away from a gym membership once when they tried to charge a joining fee in the last minute. https:/…

Yes, only today I noticed a fine free domain recording of a work by Rudyard Kipling has been appropriated by audible with the Librivox blurb removed and the narrator misattributed.…

After sight-reading through the piece a few times you can generally start writing down the fingering on the score. Keep a pencil handy. It's a bad idea to finger on the first play …

The treatments don't exist yet apart from a few stem cell treatments e.g. for Parkinson's disease. But there are clear criteria: there are the seven categories of cell damage propo…

https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/ > [...] We’ve barely scratched the surface of optics and camera lens A real genius certainly, but, I'm always doing this; bad choice of me…

Yes! I like the garbage collection analogy and we already know that children brought up without parents do badly. Why would an AGI be any different, let alone an AGI brought up in …

Worth emphasising that the knowledge of how to do these things like tying shoelaces and writing topology papers is contained in the surrounding culture. So if a machine can learn t…

Not having to sign for deliveries.

Maybe the 'Do Easy' strategy helps a drug user to cope with the low dopamine levels during the hangover period, i.e. when not high.

In some cases it might be due to the curse of knowledge . You assume because you understand it that the subject must be pretty simple for others.

I think you're both right. The benefits of successful invention (most inventions being unsuccessful) redound 1000-fold on surrounding society (rather than on the inventor, who neve…

The main idea of the book is the very exciting idea of reference frames which are created by cortical columns and whose function is to model aspects of the world such as physical o…

Yes, I hate that motivation. More trivially there are people who enjoy baiting and winding other people up. Why? I don't know. However I think I know the reason it's permitted to e…

His magnificent 'Dragon Speech' also made it clear that he'd already lost some of his marbles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBrj4S24074

Yes, which piece was that btw? I'm learning Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G minor, probably the hardest piece for me to date. I'm not timing the process but this must have been going o…

Health, intelligence and facial symmetry do seem to be linked to the absence of deleterious mutations so yes it may well be that the children of wealthy people benefit, in the fart…

Trying to enhance or disable healthy genes isn't the same as fixing known disease-causing mutations. Moreover, identifying harmful mutations can't tell you how to build superhumans…

Curing genetic diseases is going to turn unlucky people into more normal people, not privileged people into superhumans.

Yes, I wonder too. Yet isolation does seem to be a component of creative achievement. Feynman would be another example like Von Neumann. Off-the-charts intelligence and admired for…

As easy as it is to admire intelligence it's really motivation which is key, which is the admirable thing about people . VN could have accomplished far more if he'd been less conce…

Yes! It wasn't until I'd posted the question that I realised its aptness for today (Easter Sunday). However I'm not saying people should believe in an afterlife. Rather I'm reflect…

What if we're in a simulation and getting to level 2 requires that one prefer consciousness not to cease upon death?