My brother is working on a game: youtu.be/15LTqvZtrMo
It's a little like minecraft, but with an aperiodic tiling (related to the penrose tiling).
Abram Demski
@abramdemski
Long is the line of the tail! Smooth are the scales! Keen is the eye, and bright the wing’s sails!
Abram Demski’s Tweets
The largest known mindspace gap exists between predators and prey. Prey thoughts are alien; even elevated herbivores are incoherent to us
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Novices take vows of internal silence & think only in images, in soft neural washes of color & symbol. Words lose their meaning, then names
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Overheard in Berkley: "it's good luck: we're heading down a street named after a president who was assassinated by an anarchist"
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The shortened, w/o Good Regulator Theorem, version of my post on metrics is up;
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New post by @davidmanheim Goodhart's Law and Why Measurement is Hard ribbonfarm.com/2016/06/09/goo
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Like Uber, but for Twitter: "not enough people tweeting... hmm what if I offer 50¢"
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- I think I found the illustration you've been looking for to illustrate the optimizer's curse.
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On the origins of regression analysis (or, "from the beginning, there were methods wars") j.mp/1MqDc1Y
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I could really use a big poofy chair large enough to sit cross-legged in but with a school-style desk which can rotate in front of me
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stopped looking at them... and now I'm seeing app recommendations in the search results on my phone?... mrrrrrr :/
Google is suddenly seeming more commercial... My Google Now cards changed from updates about sites I've visited to generic news, so I... 1/2
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Nothing's really matter... or me
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Nothing's really matter. Anyone can see.
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Just gotta be right, just gotta be right about the world out here
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So you think all the thoughts in my mind are a lie??!!
Oh baby, can't prove this to me baby
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So you think random chance can assemble an "I"?
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Nick Bostrom's simulation arg perplexes me, that's me, yes meeeeeee
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I see a little fluctuation of a brain
Poincaré, Poincaré, will you do the recurrence
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He don't wanna die, that said he's never been alive at all [guitar solo]
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Igorrr (ooooh aaaah)
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Igorrrrrrrrr
his life has just begun
but he thinks he's been here longer than a day
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Igorrrrrrrr
just built a man
put a vat around his head
all his senses are misled
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I'm just boltz brain
A product of entropy
Bc I fluctuate in & out
False memories what it's about
Neway th bits flip dsnt really mtr 2 mee
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Is this the cosmos?
Is this a facsimile?
Could be simulated, no escape from QM for me
So many worlds, the branches unfurled can beeeeeee
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Positive result rate for clinical trials dropped from 57% to 8% after requiring registration of studies: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl #openscience
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lawful/chaotic, good/evil, gentle/harsh and normal/weird. the four axes
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AGI folks (e.g., ) are definitely more interesting to talk with than regular researchers with narrow interests.
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The AGI conference in Berlin was awesome. Conversations lead to many interesting ideas and research directions.
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I don’t think it can work at all, period. It’s just totally wrong!
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Maybe it'd be simpler to say it's non-predictive, and requires many assumptions to even work. Oh, and we have better theories.
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Why the representational theory of mind is wrong (handwavey): meaningness.com/representation and meaningness.com/representation and meaningness.com/representation
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Visual learning without awareness:
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The Unfriendly Superintelligence Next Door
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I think I see the problem, it seems you have been reading and listening to people words and focusing on their apparent semantic content
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This is an ironic mockery of the artist being advertised. :p
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RT @lifehackorg: 10 Excellent Pictures To Show What’s Wrong With Our Society
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