This is a rough outline of my philosophical framework. Which gives me a context for all of my experiences and knowledge. Certain Knowledge We cannot know much for certain. The one exception is the existence of your subjective experience of reality in this very moment of time. As Rene Descartes...
This is a rough outline of my philosophical framework. Which gives me a context for all of my experiences and knowledge.
We cannot know much for certain. The one exception is the existence of your subjective experience of reality in this very moment of time. As Rene Descartes put it "Cognito ergo sum."
From there I believe we make probabilistic assertions about the world based on evidence. For example a major question as a conscious entity is where did you come from?
There are an incredible amount of possibilities an imaginative person could conjure, and doubtless infinitely more of which no person could ever conceive.
However there is one explanation for our existence which... (read 367 more words →)
I have a sort of vague question/request and would like someones opinion on it. In cold emails or having recently been introduced I would like to ask something along the lines of “What mindset/philosophy about (insert something vague like work/school or specific if I have it in mind) have you found most useful and why?” I like this because it has changed recently for me and even if I don’t find their specific mindset useful I think it would tell me a lot about them and I am curious how people will answer.
How would you suggest improving that question. Also I would like advice on making this sort of thing less awkward.
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Not a narrow or specific kind of apprenticeship (training or a project), rather very broad and focusing on learning and academics in STEM areas (advice dispenser, and in cases tutor/trainer).
Fields of Study:
Computer Science: I am planning to major in this at college. So it is kind of important. I am interested in ML, AI, algorithms, Low Level or precise programming, Website Development, and Application Programming. All at a surface level, I am not sure what I want to do after college but I think it would to have an idea of how all of these work in case I find my self especially interested in one or another. I will be taking... (read 468 more words →)
The best part about this post is that you get to see how quickly everyone devolves into serious, rational discourse.
I am very new to the transgender discussion and would like to learn. I expected the disagreement but was kind of discouraged when I didn’t get any feedback. So thank you so much for the reply.
I don’t have any real depth of understanding about the biology involved just xx and xy I was completely unaware about the brain body relation you describe. The entirety of how phenotypes work is super new. From an ignorant perspective I thought there was only a mental illness that happens in rarely which a person would hyper fixate on becoming the opposite sex. Given that it seemed that overcoming this in some way if possible would be... (read more)
I find this topic (the general topic of transgender) interesting as it is the first time approaching it from a rational mindset. I grew up in an extremely conservative environment. Before I accepted reality my response would be it is immoral to switch genders as you are questioning god’s decision to put you in the body you were given (ego/pride thing I think). This idea no longer fits in my world view which is fun since I get to approach this topic with both a rational perspective and a new perspective. After thinking it over this is what I have got.
If you believe you are a gender that you weren’t born as... (read more)
As a generalization I think this is true but I think it is important to push yourself in instances not for semesters or anything but for a week or a day. This kind of pain in my experience leads to a lot of satisfaction. I agree that subjecting yourself to continued work along with sleep deprivation and prolonged periods of high stress is not a good idea.
I am really curious about Learning (neuroscience and psychology) and am working on categorizing learning. The systems and tools involved. If anyone has any experience on this sort of thing I would love some feedback on what I got so far.
I am mostly trying to divide ideas into categories or subjects of learning. That can be explored separately to a degree. I have to admit it is very rough going.
Memory
-Types of Memory
Working/Short-Term Memory
Long-Term Memory
Implicit vs. Explicit / General vs. Singular
-Coding: How info is stored
Semantic Networks
Associative Networks
-Consolidation
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I don’t think they are filtering for AI. That was ill said, and not my intention, thanks for catching it. I am going to edit that piece out.
Moderation is a delicate thing. It seems like the team is looking for a certain type of discourse, mainly higher level and well thought out interactions. If that is the goal of the platform then that should be stated and whatever measures they take to get there is their prerogative. A willingness to iterate on policy, experimenting and changing it depending on the audience and such is probably a good idea.
I do like the idea of a more general place where you can write about a wider variety of topics. I really like LessWrong, the aesthetic the quality of posts. A think a set of features for dividing up posts besides the... (read more)
It seems that we can have intelligence without consciousness. We can have reasoning without agency, identity, or personal preference. We can have AI as a pure tool. In this case the most likely danger is AI being misused by an unaligned human.
I am highly certain that o1 does not have consciousness or agency. However it does have the ability to follow a thought process.
Doubtless we will create sentient intelligence eventually. However I think it is more likely we will have a soulless super intelligence first.