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4gravitons.com
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| | | | | Merging quantum mechanics and gravity is a famously hard physics problem. Explaining why merging quantum mechanics and gravity is hard is, in turn, a very hard science communication problem. The more popular descriptions tend to lead to misunderstandings, and I've posted many times over the years to chip away at those misunderstandings. Merging quantum mechanics... | |
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blog.rongarret.info
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| | | | | A number of people have asked me to weigh in on this story in Quanta Magazine (based on this paper [ PDF version ] and also reported in t... | |
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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... | |
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im1776.com
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| | | Of the many applications of Kabbalah, the esoteric school of thought in Jewish mysticism repopularized online by English philosopher Nick Land, the most profound has been the idea that the qualitative has a deeply ingrained quantitative meaning. Nominal determinism, the notion that labels signal some destiny, is particularly powerful in a universe relying on numerical order. Consider Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), trained on a vectorized corpus mostly consisting of labels in which man's future is inextricably linked with turning words into numbers. Kabbalah relies heavily on the connection between words through their roots, as well as numerical representations of them-gematria. | ||
