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| | Speaking of problems I don't know how to solve, here's one that's been gnawing at me for years. ...
| | whyevolutionistrue.com
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| | I'm getting tired of writing about free will, as what I'm really interested in is determinism of the physics sort, and, as far as we know, determinism is true except in the realm of quantum mechanics-where it may still be true, but probably not. So let me lump quantum mechanics and other physical laws together...
| | opentheory.net
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| | [AI summary] The text presents a critique of the Foundational Research Institute's (FRI) approach to defining and addressing suffering and s-risks, with a focus on the philosophical and metaphysical challenges of functionalism. The author, Mike Johnson, argues that FRI's reliance on functionalism leads to intractable problems, such as the inability to provide a clear, disagreement-mediating definition of suffering. He outlines several objections to FRI's position, including the ineffability of suffering, intuition duels, convergence requirements, and the mapping of consciousness to physical systems. Johnson suggests that FRI should consider alternative frameworks, such as computational hierarchies, to address these issues. The text also references various so...
| | coornail.net
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| Neural networks are a powerful tool in machine learning that can be trained to perform a wide range of tasks, from image classification to natural language processing. In this blog post, well explore how to teach a neural network to add together two numbers. You can also think about this article as a tutorial for tensorflow.