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Comment · 4 months ago
Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’ With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.
Comment · 7 months ago
haha this is the thread i didn't know i came here for
Comment · 9 months ago
> the Ten Commandments would be a great starting point (not all but some).

i think you missed "hubris" :)

Comment · 9 months ago
> This rejects any fixed, universal moral standards

uh did you have a counter proposal? i have a feeling i'm going to prefer claude's approach...

Comment · 10 months ago
use dependabot with cooldown.
Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
Before xtrek and eventually netrek, there was hunt: https://techtinkering.com/2009/08/11/my-top-10-classic-text-... you might think that games back then were slow but this one was fast paced mayhem. using the vi commands was perfect.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Last, we deliberately focus on core cognitive capabilities rather than physical abilities such as motor skills or tactile sensing, as we seek to measure the capabilities of the mind rather than the quality of its actuators or sensors.

seems pretty unfair to exclude motor skills, especially given 1) how central they are to human economic activity, and 2) how moravec's paradox tells us they are the hard part.

Comment · 1 year ago
who said "everyone" or did you make a strawman?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%E2%80%93Lucas_argument

this actually puts it better:

The Penrose–Lucas argument about the implications of Gödel's incompleteness theorem for computational theories of human intelligence was criticized by mathematicians,[16][17][18][19] computer scientists,[20] and philosophers,[21][22][23][24][25] and the consensus among experts[7] in these fields is that the argument fails,[26][27][28] with different authors attacking different aspects of the argument.[28][29]

so, rejected by consensus. someone should update the book page so this expert rejection is clearer.

Comment · 1 year ago
yup and his book was reviewed as such at the time. mention of the rejection of his theory by professional philosophers however keeps getting edited out of the wikipedia page. See this exchange on the talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind

>> "The book's thesis is considered erroneous by experts in the fields of philosophy, computer science, and robotics."

> Wooooah, there. That's a massive accusation to add, unsourced, and without any discussion. There needs to be a source for this statement, not to mention an opposing view. It seems unlikely the guy would win an award for a book no one thinks is right. I'm deleting it unless someone comes up with a pretty good source. Joker1189 (talk) 20:43, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

The source was provided with the edit: L.J.Landau (1997) "Penrose's Philosophical Error" ISBN 3-540-76163-2 http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~llandau/Homepage/Math/penrose.html Spot (talk) 03:08, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Comment · 1 year ago
yes and even more useful with a phone. or a TV so I don't have to find the remote. lots of possibilities beyond glasses.
Comment · 1 year ago
Do you have any evidence or are you just going to go with repeating a bald-face lie?
Comment · 1 year ago
surface!

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