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According to the theory, an attention model. Here's artificial consciousness in three steps: 1. Have a robot build perception models of its environment and itself 2. Have the robot…

Do have some proposal for a narrative that could work?

It's not a comforting story, but I think it can provide meaning. It does for me at least. While we are not gods, we are different from all other animals - we are where "the fallen …

Why do you think that is? Is this narrative too complicated, or too different from the sort of myths that we naturally tend to create? I wonder whether it'd be possible to make the…

Yes, it's correct to say that I have knowledge of your conjecture, and in the same way that physicists have knowledge of QM and GR regardless of their truth status, but beyond just…

My point is that QM and GR make very different claims about what exists. Perhaps it's possible to unify the descriptions. But more likely there will be a new theory with a complete…

You've called J and T into question, so let's do B as well. Physicists know that QM and relativity can't be true, so it's fair to say that they don't believe in these theories, in …

Didn't know about these, thanks for the pointer! Do you have a good resource for learning about these (specifically about the hardness of sampling from posterior distributions)?

I think a much closer analogy to function inversion is MCMC (or Bayesian inference in general), where we can easily compute the density p(x) of any point x, but finding the x given…

Even simple inference problems are NP-hard (k means for example). I think what matters is that we have decent average case performance (and sample complexity). Most people can find…

The argument in the paper (that AGI through ML is intractable because the perfect-vs-chance problem is intractable) sounds similar to the uncomputability of Solomonoff induction (a…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Most people in ML, even if they are very proficient, don't understand why models should generalize out of domain. They just don't think about it.

Fair enough, but for the sake of this conversation, if we say 'good' values are those that keep things from staying the same, aren't the values of smart people just as likely to ev…

Then what do you mean when you say "make a difference"?

>it's what capable and smart people value and pursue that makes all the difference. How do you know capable and smart people will keep having good values? Seems to me that it's tru…

Do you still see such dynamics in the coefficients if you have an order of magnitude more data or fewer dimensions? 100 points in 6D is not much even for linear regression, the mod…

"Rives sees ESM3’s generation of new proteins by iterating through various sequences as analogous to evolution." Except for the part where a sequence is actually deemed more fit, i…

To your point, I believe AlphaStar had access to both the visual input and an API for most actions in the game.

I imagine that the problem with getting LLMs to do it is 1)hallucination and 2)a lack of training examples of teaching through text. We rarely teach purely through text messages, I…

I wonder about the latter. It's known that high quality, one-on-one teaching can greatly improve learning speed. Could near future generation AI learn to be a teacher on par with t…

If you know how sensory organs encode information as spike trains and the many ways neurons input, process and output signals, there's no way around the hypothesis that the brain d…

It seems that what's really needed is a formalization of the uncertainty of scientific claims, which I'm not sure is even possible to implement fully. But it's perhaps possible to …

The Brightmind app is excellent, and you can adjust the duration of the guided meditations.

Probably not a solution, but many people have reported benefits from fasting, which increases cellular autophagy which degrades disfunctional cell parts - and might play a role in …