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www.greaterwrong.com
About 15 years ago, I read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers. He profiled Chris Langan, an extremely high-IQ person, claiming that he had only mediocre accomplishments despite his high IQ. Chris Langan's theory of everything, the Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe, was mentioned. I considered that it might be worth checking out someday. Well, someday has happened, and I looked into CTMU, prompted by Alex Zhu (who also paid me for reviewing the work). The main CTMU paper is "The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A New Kind of Reality Theory". |
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www.greaterwrong.com
Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano wrote the book Rethinking Consciousness (2019) to explain his "Attention Schema" theory of consciousness (endorsed by Dan Dennett![1]). If you don't want to read the whole book, you can get the short version in this 2015 article. I'm particularly interested in this topic because, if we build AGIs, we ought to figure out whether they are conscious, and/or whether that question matters morally. (As if we didn't already have our hands full thinking about the human impacts of AGI!) This book is nice and concrete and computational, and I think it at least offers a start to answering the first part of that question. |
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www.greaterwrong.com
This is a crosspost from my blog. Its intention is to act as a primer on non-causal decision theories, and how they apply to the prisoner's dilemma in particular, for those who were taught traditional game theory and are unfamiliar with the LessWrong memeplex. I'm posting it here primarily to get feedback on it and make sure I didn't make any errors. I plan to update it as I hear counterarguments from causal decision theorists, so check the one on my blog if you want the most recent version. |
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www.lostgarden.com
The phrase "game mechanics" sends a pleasant shiver down my spine. At the heart of every game are these mysterious whirring clicking mechan... |
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