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Crypto PM. Salon over soapbox. Maybe a metarationalist or something. How do we improve large-scale human collaboration?

San Francisco, USA
autotranslucence.wordpress.com
Joined January 2017

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    1. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Sep 27

      I conceive of the body as hardware and the mind as software and I fully acknowledge the limitations of that paradigm. People used to think the brain was micro-clockwork because that was the cutting edge of computronium back in the day

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    2. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Sep 27

      The era of aviation arose, not by dissecting birds but by making conceptual leaps to understand fluid dynamics and the mechanics of flight. Similarly if we ever build mind machines it will be through conceptual leaps in the science of intelligence

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    3. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Sep 27

      We are at least two scientific revolutions away from understanding the mysteries of consciousness and intelligence. Maybe those revolutions will never come. Maybe we're fundamentally incapable of producing the empirical lens that will grant us those insights

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    4. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Sep 27

      I think machine learning can teach us a lot about ourselves. Neural networks learn by aggregating perceptions into statistics. For a given stimulus, they generate a range of outputs weighted by probability. The weights represent the network's confidence in its judgement

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    5. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Sep 27

      If I'm honest about my own cogitations, I can relate to that. People think computers are rigid in their logic, that's what "robotic" means, but neural networks and learning algorithms use rigid logic to build flexible logic

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    6. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Sep 27

      Despite everything we hear, many of us stubbornly believe we're so rational and lucid and driven by evidence and careful consideration, but the truth is we just make guesses based on the frequencies at which we see things

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    7. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Sep 27

      In Chinese they have an expression, three men make a tiger, 三人成虎, it means you'll believe anything if you hear it from enough people.

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    8. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Sep 27

      Despite all the things that we don't know, we can still model the people around us, and we can do so quite accurately, and we can make very good models using very simple tricks

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    9. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Sep 27

      Much of what people do is mechanical, and I'm a reductionist in the sense that my models round off all spiritual experience to mere emotion and I think that makes them work better, not worse

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    10. 0 HP Lovecraft‏ @0x49fa98 Sep 27

      I invite you to disagree with me. Disagreements are assets. When I was younger I spent many hours reading books about the philosophy of mind, about consciousness, about neuroscience (admittedly, books for the layman). I satisfied my curiousity that no one knows anything

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      Jessica Watson Miller‏ @autotrnslucence Sep 27
      Replying to @0x49fa98

      Why is it useful to you to believe the world only exists materially (if that is how I understand you)? Sure, nations, souls, gods, stories are all things that can be understood physically but that lens is much harder to use for them than a non-materialist one.

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        1. Jamie Curcio‏ @Mythos_Media Sep 27
          Replying to @autotrnslucence @0x49fa98

          *Neither* Materialist nor Idealist frames really work, if they're taken as truth rather than model. They should have been outmoded by the 20th century-- but habit is a bitch.

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