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One Minute Every Moment
lukstafi2y40

However, if you're like me, you probably aren't quite comfortable with Miller's rejection of bits as the information currency of the brain.

What if "system 2" is like a register machine with 4 pointer-storing registers / slots / tabs, 2 per hemisphere? (Peter Carruthers "The Centered Mind".) I don't reject information processing, but rather consider "working memory" to be a misnomer. The brain does not implement memcpy.

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Stephen Wolfram's ideas are under-appreciated
lukstafi2y-10

People allergic to Stephen Wolfram and criticizing "Wolfram Physics" (e.g. Scott Aaronson) would better contribute to the conversation by reading Jonathan Gorard's publications, forming their opinion of the content of that published work, and expressing their non-ad-Wolfram criticisms. The broader "culture clash" problem is that Wolfram Physics is a metaphysical theory rather than a physics theory: it explains physics theories such as general relativity and quantum mechanics, rather than explaining a specific physical phenomenon. (Further physics theories can be advanced within Wolfram Physics.)

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Is veganism morally correct?
lukstafi4y10

Moral anti-realists do not claim that people don't have preferences. Rather, they claim that there are no preference-assumption-free facts regarding preference system comparisons. Therefore moral anti realists will not seek such facts. Moral realists may seek such facts in order to improve/correct their preferences.

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Is veganism morally correct?
lukstafi4y10

The implications of moral anti realism for action revolve around pursuing facts to feed into terminal preference updates.

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Is veganism morally correct?
lukstafi4y10

"if anti-realism is true, it doesn't matter [to us] what we do" -- that's false. Whether something does matter to us is a fact independent of whether something ought to matter to us.

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Reinforcement Learning Study Group
lukstafi4y-10

I advise using JAX instead of Tensorflow.

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Pain is not the unit of Effort
lukstafi5y*140

I recently read David Goggins "Can't Hurt Me". On one level it does glorify superhuman pain tolerance. But a constructive perspective on such attitudes is: they illustrate courage. Do not tolerate pain, laugh at it! Do not tense under cold shower, relax into it. Do not bear problems, solve them.

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Industrial literacy
lukstafi5y40

The fridge / the freezer!

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AlphaStar: Impressive for RL progress, not for AGI progress
lukstafi6y40

Would you consider MuZero an advance in causal reasoning? Despite intentionally not representing causality / explicit model dynamics, it supports hypothetical reasoning via state tree search.

Do you think there's a chance of MuZero - AlphaStar crossover?

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