We should seriously get better at Cybersecurity. I discovered a zero day vulnerability affecting thousands of Internet exposed video surveillance devices all around the world.
We should seriously get better at Cybersecurity. I discovered a zero day vulnerability affecting thousands of Internet exposed video surveillance devices all around the world.
If you could ask just one question to an omniscient oracle knowing that 1. the oracle cannot lie. 2. the oracle can only answer yes or no. What would you ask? What would be your strategy for maximizing the bits of information you will receive from the demon's response?
Armstrong et al. suggest that an Oracle AI could be a solution to confine the harmful potential of artificial intelligence. While the benefits are certainly considerable, I believe that even an oracle could lead to an existential risk, or at least to unpleasant situations. I would like to share a...
> Hermeneutics [həːmɪˈnjuːtɪks] > -The branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, especially of the Bible or literary texts- Oxford dictionary > The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. Ludwig Wittgenstein Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, (probably) the greatest mathematicians and natural philosopher who ever walked fifteenth...
Below I will present a (small but qualitative ) list of those that I think are some of the best sites/blog that a human being can find on the world wide web. The main criterion I used to draw up the list was to consider how the websites promote the...
Determinism is the belief that every action in time is born by the previous one. [1] In deterministic terms you cannot have an event E if you didn't have an event D before, which in turn is the result of a cause C and so on, without any type of...
We should seriously get better at Cybersecurity. I discovered a zero day vulnerability affecting thousands of Internet exposed video surveillance devices all around the world.
how would you change the question between the two cases?
Think of this scenario: I ask "is everything I am doing the optimal for my subjective preferences?" Now think at your question. It is provable that the oracle answer yes (or no) to my question if and only if the oracle answer yes (or no) to your question, and vice-versa. This make my question a better choice since it is less complex (less bits). If you try to schematize some possible cases, you will see that the answer of the oracle in my example and yours is always the same.
If you could ask just one question to an omniscient oracle knowing that
What do you mean by "where the motivation comes from"?
Armstrong et al. suggest that an Oracle AI could be a solution to confine the harmful potential of artificial intelligence.
While the benefits are certainly considerable, I believe that even an oracle could lead to an existential risk, or at least to unpleasant situations.
I would like to share a proof sketch of the above:
For simplicity, let's consider an Oracle AI that has the ability to answer only yes / no to the questions posed by human operators. It is clear that here we are talking about an even weaker version than the one suggested by Armstrong, Bostrom and Sandberg. We define the Oracle as a superintelligent agent... (read 226 more words →)
Thanks for the clarification, I correct the error. As for the second point, who says we have to lock up the killers for decades? Just because this is what the system currently does does not mean it is right. The most rational way would be to use criminals as a workforce, there is no more important resource for a Nation and if you think about the number of convicts who remain to rot at the expense of the state I think this would be the absolute best use.
Hermeneutics [həːmɪˈnjuːtɪks]
-The branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, especially of the Bible or literary texts-
Oxford dictionary
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, (probably) the greatest mathematicians and natural philosopher who ever walked fifteenth century continental Europe, dreamed of an all-embracing formal language, able to express the highest concepts that the human mind can explore: science, mathematics, metaphysics. He called this vocabulary characteristica universalis. He was also a declared rationalist, although the definition of "rationalist" was a little different from the modern one. Leibniz never went so far into the technical details of building such a language, to the... (read 1624 more words →)
Below I will present a (small but qualitative ) list of those that I think are some of the best sites/blog that a human being can find on the world wide web.
The main criterion I used to draw up the list was to consider how the websites promote the dissemination of knowledge among people and how, over the course of time, they have helped me both with regards to work and in terms of intellectual self-formation. The order in which they are listed is not to be considered restrictive ( except perhaps for the first two ).
Please feel free to criticize the catalog (as long as the... (read more)
The most complex system is the one that can generate complex system itself, outside of biological reproduction. Based on this definition, human beings are the most complex biological systems that we know, even if it sound too anthropocentric.
A couple of points to your points.
1) Bell's inequalities only seem to disprove local realism. In addition, many scientists criticize the assumptions and, in any case, they are compatible with different deterministic systems or with non-local hidden variables, so it is far from being a definitive tool to prove or disprove determinism.
2) If you take determinism in the broad sense as the main subject of the discourse, then eternalism is a subset of determinism and not vice versa. Other subsets may be: Hard determinism, MWI, Biological determinism, Theological determinism and many others.
Determinism is the belief that every action in time is born by the previous one. [1] In deterministic terms you cannot have an event E if you didn't have an event D before, which in turn is the result of a cause C and so on, without any type of alphabetical bound. This philosophical conception is one of the most discussed, directly or indirectly, because it is the generator of very important ontological implications, first of all the existence of free will which, we could claim, is one of the most courted topics by the philosophers of all time. Something that has always struck me about the... (read 684 more words →)