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www.lesswrong.com | ||
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www.wiringthebrain.com
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| | | | | There is a paradox at the heart of modern neuroscience. As we succeed in explaining more and more cognitive operations in terms of patter... | |
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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... | |
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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | | | The most common formalizations of Occam's Razor, Solomonoff induction and Minimum Description Length, measure the program size of a computation used in a hypothesis, but don't measure the running time or space requirements of the computation. What if this makes a mind vulnerable to finite forms of Pascal's Wager? A compactly specified wager can grow in size much faster than it grows in complexity. The utility of a Turing machine can grow much faster than its prior probability shrinks. | |
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www.climate-skeptic.com
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