I tried to do what we call, if I may be so bold, a "conceptual scoop"!!
Pls read my story on the most overlooked form of extreme confinement of farmed animalsโthe routine caging of millions of dairy calves in tiny crates less than 1/10 the size of a parking spot.
It's not about veal! (๐งต)
Unfortunately I can tell you that he is 100% thinking about the extended Enderโs Game universe thing about โthe old joke: imagine what someone smarter than you would do, and then do itโ. So heโs also imagining himself as a child soldier when he does this.
Now that you know what it is, maybe you can sand it off, or give it to a museum. Those are actions.
Thereโs also the 2.5th order question of whether when you as a person who doesnโt have to steal from Whole Foods do it anyway, are you more โsticking it to Bezosโ or โmaking it more likely they go the Walgreens route and hire armed security guards to follow people who look like they could be poorโ?
There are contributions from both points of view, so on the whole...yes!
Largely that it's fun to talk about these things with other people who are interested in them, and that that can be useful for sharpening our own understandings. Of course it's also good to read what's been written (I have read large parts of that book).
Thoroughly yes, conclusively perhaps not
This is the right kind of question I think - "credences" shouldn't be fundamental objects in your theory
Just a quick clarification q, what does it mean to observe a probability? ๐
Also in many cases the only way people check if it went where they wanted is by asking the train
Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.
An extended analogy of writing to baking bread followed.
Overheard at coffee shop: โThis is now the fourth time Iโm writing this text, and Iโll probably write it two more times.โ Apparently some people in this city are still doing things right.
I'm here to shut up and calculate. And I'm all out of calculate. ๐
Are either of you familiar with Zurek's Quantum Darwinism stuff? Can't remember if you were involved in the kerfuffle about whether or not that is just Everett last week ๐
I'd be so sad if it turned out that a collapse theory was true. So messy and unpleasant.
There's a lot of stimulating discussion in this collection. I read some of it after reading Wallace's book. I think a bunch of the essays are available elsewhere online. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
I do think the connection can be made, but I think to do it right requires more engagement with philosophy of mind than you typically see in discussions among physicists. (So for instance I think that the decision-theoretic approach of Deutsch and Wallace is not really conclusive.)
Agreed that this is the main problem. Non-unitary solutions of the MP let us make this connection by imagining, as we tend to classically, that minds ride around on physical objects. This breaks down in MW, so it remains to make the connection as convincing as the classical connection.
As a matter of fact, I *would* like junior academics who use ai to keep their mouths shut!
Saw a bus stop ad advertising some ai for business thing, and the scenario was a guy with an ice cream store asking โwhat were our most popular flavors this month?โ Have these people not heard of excel?
my first book (2020) was about online neonazis and my second book (2024) was about christian theocrats. they gained strength, voltronned and became a government. my third book (2027) is going to be a history of notable sandwiches so i hope this means we will be governed by sandwichocracy
as a member of the canadian diaspora what aspect of canadian identity should I get weird about
"I use sonnet" "I use haiku" name one poet bro
Got it. I'm sorry for your loss. To clarify: You want a eulogy for your father that's ๐๐ป๐ถ๐พ๐๐ฒ, sounds ๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐, and captures the ๐น๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ต๐ถ๐บ. I get it. He wasn't just your father โ he was your Dad. Here a few options I came up with:
It would be so cool if we had machines that were really good at doing exactly what we tell them to do when we give them precise instructions. Oh well, might have read too much sci-fi as a kid.
Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill How many Americans have to get Allahu Akbarโed before we realize Islam is a problem?
The way sitting politicians can say this stuff about Muslims while facing zero consequences is an indication of just how entrenched Islamophobia still is in our institutions and culture.
Too many โmiddle groundโ AI argumentsโโI have concerns, too, but we have to adaptโโproceed from what is to me a peculiar embrace of โinevitabilityโ which seems to be magical thinking, a way of depoliticizing the political, of self-soothing in the face of an overwhelming challenge.
