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So I'll have to park my car in a garage first, then take a bus to the terminal just so that a robot can move my car from the place where I parked it to a different place? I was hop…

Also consider the possibility that the people who argue against the hard problem of consciousness may, in fact, not be conscious. How could they ever understand the nuance of consc…

I would buy this in a heartbeat. I am profoundly bothered by the slop software that is on every TV these days. I keep joking that as tech invades more and more corners of our lives…

Somewhat related question: Any suggestions for a scanner meant for bulk scans of old family photos (think a few thousand images)? I bought, what I thought, was a reasonably solid s…

I'm curious what you mean when you say that this clearly is not intelligence because it's just Markov chains on steroids. My interpretation of what you're saying is that since the …

Just to pile on here, there's also ambiguity around how the observed girl is selected. Consider the following framing: I go to a random house on a random street and knock on the do…

I'm not making a value judgement on how much I would or other people should consume in the first scenario. I'm simply saying that you could have profound effects due to AI without …

I think two possible effects of AI are often conflated. On the one hand you can imagine that work gets supercharged, allowing companies to produce 10x the number of widgets at 1/10…

Even if AI can't replace an entire worker, they may still be able to help one worker do the work of two which by itself could lead to massive unemployment (at least in the short te…

I think the OP was pointing out that the reason Strasssen's algorithm works is that it somehow uncovered a kind of repeated work that's not evident in a simple divide and conquer a…

Isn't it just that the IP router happens to use IPs in Russia as part of the rotation? If they're trying to exfiltrate data, they might want to rotate through IP addresses in order…

Is this just a data play? Need more data. Start a social network. Own said data.

Here's how I think about it: For any dome-like shape, you can start a marble at the bottom and roll it up with some initial speed. If you roll it with insufficient initial speed it…

I agree. I think it comes down to the motivation behind why one does mathematics (or any other field for that matter). If it's a means to an end, then sure have the AI do the work …

Another way to get to the same result is to use "Feynman's Trick" of differentiating inside a sum: Consider the function f(x) = Sum_{n=1}^\infty c^(-xn) Then differentiate this k t…

I mean, you could jump into the black hole to see what's inside so it's not unfalsifiable. The only issue is that you can't convey it to someone on the outside of the black hole.

Here's a good video on this topic from a few years ago where they illustrate the difference between a pure 5/8 and what's actually on the album. https://youtu.be/dRBmavn6Wk0

Here's a fun thought experiment / apparent paradox. In high school physics we learn that a 1kg mass accelerates as quickly as a 2kg mass when only subjected to the force of gravity…

It is generally believed that the perturbation expansion that we see in realistic quantum field theories are what are known as asymptomatic expansions. These are series that have a…

Yeah, from a philosophical perspective these are interesting questions to ponder, but my impression of these comments is less that people are pondering the depth of consciousness a…

While everyone is debating whether this is impressive or dumb, if it's a leap forward in technology or just a rehashing of old ideas with more data, if we should really care that m…

No I'm just it as an analogy. Not all Turing machines are universal. What were going through now could maybe be likened to what it would be like for a Turing machine to encounter a…

One (perhaps silly) way I like to frame this stuff is by imagining that I'm some special purpose Turing machine designed specifically for some task. Sure, sometimes other Turing ma…