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The first bit is why it is called Stochastic gradient decent. You follow the gradient of a randomly chosen minibatch at each step. It basically makes you "vibrate" down along the g…

Having a Scandinavian perspective on this, where birthrates also have fallen a lot recently, I don't think financial stability is the only factor. In my experience ppl here don't w…

Wonder if this perspective is compatible with Wolframs physics model based on hypergraphs? Gravity, in this framework, is an emergent property arising from the statistical behavior…

If you and I had the same exact input and outputs then why would we have different experiences? Seems very unlikely to me. A better way of thinking about qualia is like embeddings …

The difference between traditional software and LLMs is the generality of their intelligence, and there are formal definitions of general intelligence such as https://en.m.wikipedi…

Funnily Bezos has probably made more for Harris by stopping the endorsement then if he let it go through. No one would have cared about the endorsement, now this story is everywher…

Same here

Check out brain stimulation such as flowneuroscience.com

The reason that ppl give up now is not that it is worse now than before, but rather the opposite. Now you can do almost nothing productive and still survive. Before, you would simp…

Compatibilists often argue that determinism and free will (and moral responsibility) are compatible since their view is that what constitutes freedom is not affected by whether or …

Yes, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is great! (and it is referenced in the paper) A quote from it: "Other compatibilists show less concern in rebutting the conclusion that…

Why?

It cannot, even if ppl think that this is what Bell's theorem says. But the determinism must be quite strange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytyjgIyegDI

Well there are many versions of compatibilism I guess, but just reading the Wikipedia article on compatibilism I don't think most compatibilists think freedom relies on whether or …

Indeed. The problem is that the word "free" has different meanings when talking about free will and freedom in other contexts. What you talk about is value freedom, while ppl denyi…

Yes, the strange thing with the debate is that ppl seem to think that there is a conflict between compatibilism and incompatiblism, which there isn't. They are just taking about di…

You might find this paper interesting. https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08435 The confusion about free will comes from a confusion about what "free" means. The everyday use of the word f…

> I could imagine that in reality all of that isn't needed. Whether the algorithm really feels something or not - it doesn't matter as long as the expression is realistic enough fo…

> Unless you really claim that modeling "pain" as some kind of variable in an algorithm can be equivalent to a biological being feeling pain? Yes, I do. I guess it all boils down t…

> In other words: "Pain isn't real"? Are you serious? Of course it is real. When I feel pain from an injury, the injury is very real, my pain sensor's signals are real and my brain…

Check out How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, by L. Barrett. But I probably take it a bit further than that :) The system would believe it is experiencing pain. It…

Emotions are concepts our internal model has learned when trying to model itself. For a system to experience what we describe as pain, it needs to receive sensory input which it pr…

Have you looked into non-pharmacological treatments like tDCS or rTMS? brain stimulation is safe and often as effective as drugs but without the side-effects. https://pubmed.ncbi.n…