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Another one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory

The difference would be that in the movie case, there is a you that is being tricked, that is present even through the trickery. You're having the experience of something moving, b…

That explanation is too simple for those who think/feel subjective states exist, however. While someone may be fooled about what they're perceiving, they can't be fooled about that…

> Pick any human. I claim there exists some subject that ChatGPT has a better understanding of than this human, based on a surface-level evaluation. Isn't that a low bar, though? F…

Does it have a branch where you hack your own utility function and gain +infinity utility?

From the Wikipedia article about the multi-armed bandit problem: >Originally considered by Allied scientists in World War II, it proved so intractable that, according to Peter Whit…

Yudkowskyist rationalism is a prime example that what you simply banish out of hand may percolate back up through your ideas -- unless you know enough about whatever it is you're t…

Then how come WWII happened? Were the great dictators just irrational?

Because the world is impure and the link between the real world and the mathematical domain will never be ironclad. For instance, say that Joe makes a deepfake and then signs it wi…

> We are FAR beyond such coarse distinctions in the era of surveillance capitalism. Isn't that the point these days? To market at such a fine granularity that it becomes individual…

Doesn't that prove too much? For any coin you can imagine a more deflationary version of that coin. Bitcoin has had plenty of such forks. The argument above would indicate that the…

The problem: the libertarian ideology that inspired Bitcoin explicitly denies that there can be a ruling class because free markets are optimal, distributed, and stay free forever.…

Isn't Agile more or less gradient descent (well, approximating the gradient for an undifferentiable function), applied to software development? The objective function is some funct…

The page seems a bit too heavily weighted towards SNARKs in particular and crypto currency applications in general. There's no mention of ZKPPs, for instance. Not all crypto is "cr…