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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | | | (Cross-posted from Facebook.) Now and then people have asked me if I think that other people should also avoid high school or college if they want to develop new ideas. This always felt to me like a wrong way to look at the question, but I didn't know a right one. Recently I thought of a scary new viewpoint on that subject. This started with a conversation with Arthur where he mentioned an idea by Yoshua Bengio about the software for general intelligence having been developed memetically. I remarked that I didn't think duplicating this culturally transmitted software would be a significant part of the problem for AGI development. (Roughly: low-fidelity software tends to be algorithmically shallow. Further discussion moved to comment below.) | |
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qualiacomputing.com
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| | | | | "It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand,... | |
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rsbakker.wordpress.com
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| | | | | "Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past," Yuval Noah Harari writes. "It enables us to turn our heads this way and that, and to begin to notice possibilities that our ancestors could not imagine, or didn't want us to imagine" (59). Thus does the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of... | |
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errorstatistics.com
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| | | Here is section 5 of my new paper: "Statistical Science Meets Philosophy of Science Part 2: Shallow versus DeepExplorations" SS & POS 2. Sections 1 and 2 are in my last post.* 5. The Error-Statistical Philosophy I recommend moving away, once and for all, from the idea that frequentists must 'sign up' for either Neyman... | ||
