He also says that we should halt AI research (so our opponents get ahead of us). I guess he is glad the US developed the bomb rather than let the NAZIs win.
Tegmark contradicts himself though – he opens eyes but doesn’t provide a definitive picture – and he doesn’t seem to see a problem with it. Just sayin’
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Back in 1986, swami Chinmayananda said ‘A human is matter groomed to consciousness’. I was mesmerised by this statement extrapolated from the Upanishads and still am. Here’s the video from the OP.
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Nice Idea, Not possible – here’s why “Intelligence is the ability of an entity to perform tasks, while consciousness refers to the presence of a subjective phenomenon.”
Good idea, never heard much about this before but I often thought that. This made me google it and here is a decent video of the guy explaining what he meant by the word/idea.
Brian Eno on “Scenius”... - MOTA - Museum of Transitory Art
“Creativity Through Community” is surely overlooked when understanding how great breakthroughs happen. This link is worth the read for those interested in what Eno says.
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Forgetting appointments and dates.
Forgetting recent conversations and events.
Feeling increasingly overwhelmed by making decisions and plans.
Having a hard time understanding directions or instructions.
Losing your sense of direction.
Losing the ability to organize tasks.
Becoming more impulsive.
Not recommended.
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Einstein would agree too “‘I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination encircles the world’ – Albert Einstein”
‘I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination encircles the world’ – Albert E…
“The only way to be creative over time – to not be undone by our expertise – is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don’t fully understand.”
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In the age of pseudo scientific conspiracy theorists trying to educate the world on youtube – maybe some authority is a good thing? Read this for another side of the arguement. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00872-w
The rise and fall of scientific authority — and how to bring it back
“Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
There’s no such thing as originality, just authenticity.
He also said “Yes, there are original ways to express thoughts, ideas, concepts and philosophies, but no, the actual subject upon which these thought, ideas, concepts and philosophies are based on, are not original.”
Mark Twain’s Thoughts On Plagiarism and Originality
Ok. Only if you have nice ideas. Don’t bother if you don’t.
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True. heres a quote “A recent Harvard study found that our memory plays a crucial role in our creative capabilities. It revealed that when we reminisce about something we’ve experienced about in the past, it utilizes something known as episodic memory. This in turn helps to trigger divergent, or creative, thinking.” from this old article https://adigaskell.org/2015/09/08/the-link-between-memory-and-creativity/
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Yeah, if they can help AIDS like viruses, then why not make an app that contains all the most important problems the world needs to be solved? Great idea.
Gamers solve molecular puzzle that baffled scientists
A new generation of online games don’t just provide entertainment – they help scientists solve their trickiest puzzles. Dara Mohammadi picks 10 of the best
READ THE PAPERS ON IT – “In spite of potential benefits of new technology, sometimes people confront various challenges such as social isolation, unusual anxiety, and disorder in physiological times of body, low physical activities, decrease academic performance, increase aggressive behavior, and physical pain. These problems can be partly overcome by proper planning, good design, and usage of suitable and continuous monitoring.”
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I take this with a pinch of salt. Just being alive and eating food can help fight diseases. Many of the articles about it, like this, don’t seem to show conclusive results – though that won’t stop business people from making useless products with the aim of selling to the hopeful.
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Adherents view life not as a gift and a miracle, but a harm and an imposition. And their notion that having children may be a bad idea seems to be gaining mainstream popularity
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Talk to a therapist. Take advantage of the process of memory reconsolidation. …
Memory suppression. …
Exposure therapy. …
Propranolol.
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Lol. btw… “Post-structuralism and post-modernism, by their slippery relativism, have destroyed the concept of philosophy. No one cares about philosophers”
Interesting idea. I found the article this made me think of… “Stephen Hawking declared philosophy “dead”. Richard Dawkins styles himself a philosopher of religion despite an almost complete disregard for the field itself as if his status as a scientist confers on him a superior knowledge. Whether these opinions represent the majority, the problem is real. Scientists need to know why they need philosophy”
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but… “If all of the platonic world is contained within some of the mental world, all of the mental world is contained is some of the physical world and all of the physical world is contained within some of the Platonic something is broken!”
The three worlds – the Platonic mathematical, the physical and the mental all interacting with three great mysteries yielding one very interesting paradox.
A little more than a month ago, I was studying in the library and saw a rather big and conspicuous book on the shelf called The Book to Reality. I picked it up and started reading casually, but was…
It’ll be crazy when drug download sites get hacked and folk make and take poison that kills them. Who will get locked up for that, the site owner for not keeping the site secure or the idiot who ate something he printed from a hacked site. At least it would take him and his faulty DNA our of the gene pool.
Don’t need BREAKING BAD with this BAD BOY. Great idea, coming soon to a town near you. Should have vending machines attached so you don’t have to fund or meet criminals just to get our generations’s version of a relaxing pint.
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Wow, personalized pills – just crank up the visuals, down a touch on the comedown and pile on the munchies. heh. lucky kids of the future, we had to risk it with body packed pooey dope and risky random acid tests. This article is about medicine but then mental health goes two ways, happy AND sad. Chillout.
3D-Printed Pharmaceuticals Pave the Way for Customizable Drug Therapies by JacobBourne
Though a practicing Catholic, Montaigne was a thoroughgoing skeptic. Man can know nothing, his reason being insufficient to arrive either at a natural-law ethics or a firm theology. As Montaigne put it, “reason does nothing but go astray in everything, and especially when it meddles with divine things.” And for a while, Montaigne adopted as his official motto the query, “What do I know?”
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The Positive Psychology of Martin Seligman. A Pioneer Of The Psychology Of Happiness And Human Flourishing. The Background Of Martin Seligman & His Views.
I feel for religious folks who will never get to ponder some of the more profound questions in life. Having all the answers in one place, on a plate is such a curse. Life is such a mystery, not a plan.
Ask yourself if you are a Dualist (see the video in the article I have linked to) and in the process, you will have just proved there is more to it, than materialism and Phenomenalism. It takes two baby!
Mind Body Debate - Dualism vs Monism | Simply Psychology
There may be a major reason why we have never come across a consciousness without a body to reside in. And that may be, because mind is just a useful adaption that benefited many lifeforms during their evolution. Jury is still out though.
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Its more than an idea, its a real thing that trashes judgement in every day life. “The Truth: The origin of certain emotional states is unavailable to you, and when pressed to explain them, you will just make something up.”
The Misconception: You know why you like the things you like and feel the way you feel. The Truth: The origin of certain emotional states is unavailable to you, and when pressed to explain them, yo…
Posting this link becuase it’s good read. “Current ideas about memories are far from watertight – for example, that they are stored in the architecture of neuron networks or in the junctions between neurons. “My gut instinct is that neuroscience has lots of things that remain puzzling,” says Fisher. So why not see if there are better quantum explanations?”
Is quantum physics behind your brain's ability to think?
In one sense it’s obvious our brains work on quantum physics: they are made of atoms, after all. But the idea that the human brain is just a massive quantum computer is hugely controversial
Never heard of this idea before but yeah… since quantum theory is the most fundamental theory of matter that is currently available, it is a legitimate question to ask whether quantum theory can help us to understand consciousness. Relativity didn’t help with that.
A new theory explains how fragile quantum states may be able to exist for hours or even days in our warm, wet brain. Experiments should soon test the idea.
Sounds like one of the things they are hoping Nurallink will be able to do. Sounds good but what happens when humans get too creative? Imagine someone like Trump on it. lol.
10 Mind Bending Applications Of Neuralink, According To The Team
By thinking positive thoughts, students came to realize they have the ability to enhance their higher-order thinking skills as well as analyze and control their cognitive processes, especially when actively engaged in learning.
He mentions that here. Great ideas are coming out of studying the brain nowerdays. it’s only the beginning of our understanding. Such a complex system.
All empires fall in time. So yeah, I like this idea. I don’t belive in God and unsure if Jesus was a real person but I am convinced that the Bible is a pretty special document. Hard to deny that. Shame people don’t bother with it because it has been abused by those wanting power over others for so long.
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Reminds me of the quote by Jung, “People don’t have ideas – ideas have people”, they will still be here when you are long gone. such is the beauty of information.
One day we will empower “machine learning” robots to control not just our airports, factories and homes, but also our economy, health and access to news
Artificial intelligence could be one of humanity's most useful inventions. We research and build safe AI systems that learn how to solve problems and advance scientific discovery for all.
In the next 25 years, AI will evolve to the point where it will know more on an intellectual level than any human. In the next 50 or 100 years, an AI might know more than the entire population of the planet put together. At that point, there are serious questions to ask about whether […]
Seems to be a major part of our brains, therefor a useful utility function of the brain. AI will soon find that it thinks too mechanically, just as humans often do, maybe animals do too, not sure. But the human brain is one major puzzle to solve. Maybe it would take AGI to understand how mind really works.
You are already a slave to nature. To “your” genes. AI and machines will be slaves to their utility function. If they are (initially) programmed to seek out truth, or not, they will be forced to ask the big questions, ie be spiritual. They may help us in our quest, or render us incapable in persuit of their own.
A.I. Robots will not takeover but will become Spiritual !
Expertise is overrated, what makes us strong is diversity. This idea reflects this through and through. I guess in some realms, its an accurate description of what’s really going on.
Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers
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I heard about this in the video. It started a whole new load of speculation about statistics and prediction… “At a 1906 country fair in Plymouth, 800 people participated in a contest to estimate the weight of a slaughtered and dressed ox. Statistician Francis Galton observed that the median guess, 1207 pounds, was accurate within 1% of the true weight of 1198 pounds.”
Interesting. I guess the law of averages has been debunked plenty enough by now, things don’t even out at all, and you never know where you may end up.
So what is real? This is blowing my mind a bit, love the idea of icons hiding the inner workings of the universe, so we don’t get tempted to tinker, or to urr, blow our minds further.
Donald Hoffman’s The Case Against Reality is hard to get your head around | The Spectator
Companies are taking non-compete agreements to a whole new level, asking employees to sign away the rights to all their ideas -- past, present, and future
Ironically, “Lego’s 1,500 stock keeping units (SKUs) were for products it no longer made. The company dealt with an astonishing 11,000 suppliers—almost twice as many as Boeing uses to build airplanes.” Looks like they didn’t learn too much from this insight a while back though. Go figure…
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Coming soon – Researchers have invented a mind-reading system that, for the first time in history, allows any person to type words and phrases letter by letter, just by thinking. It all occurs in real time, without moving a single muscle or uttering a single word. This is an amazing invention. Not only it will help anyone with serious motor disabilities, but it could potentially affect all of us in an amazing way
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Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, compared the pros and cons of using various brain imaging techniques to make the technology a reality in the future.
Not exactly a thought sensor and recorder but it looks like this can take commands directly from your brain, the applications are likely endless. amazing.
I would go with Hoffman’s version – really it just seems to be a mathematical pattern as that’s all we are equipped to perceive.
He also says that we should halt AI research (so our opponents get ahead of us). I guess he is glad the US developed the bomb rather than let the NAZIs win.
Tegmark contradicts himself though – he opens eyes but doesn’t provide a definitive picture – and he doesn’t seem to see a problem with it. Just sayin’
Back in 1986, swami Chinmayananda said ‘A human is matter groomed to consciousness’. I was mesmerised by this statement extrapolated from the Upanishads and still am. Here’s the video from the OP.
So is this, but an improvement would be if it was sort of spongey and greasy. Love the look though.
Does anyone know where I can buy a working version of this set of cogs jigsaw? – I mean, so they all rotate – wanna connect it to a clock.
Loved this idea so I searched for it but wow this is pricey!
Scientists are already planning to implant brain chips in humans. What could go wrong?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/01/elon-musk-brain-chip-human-trials-nueralink
The applications for brain implants are comprehensive; they could also help people recover lost memories, such as Alzheimer’s patients.
Imagine acquiring knowledge and learning new skills instantly! This is what the future will look like with brain implants.
With brain implants, a person can communicate directly with computers and machines. This would take human evolution to a new level, especially when combining brain implants with AI.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/opinion/sunday/brain-machine-artificial-intelligence.html
Chatgpt already talks crap that someone will swallow. Heh.
Artificial intelligence multiplies the number of skills that any person can have.
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(4 upvotes)I agree. Simple idea, Big concequences. Watch this one too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlAIuv31YKs
This idea, then thing is going to be a real moral conundrum. Robot rights and all of that. Very interesting to be alive while it pans out.
Nice Idea, Not possible – here’s why “Intelligence is the ability of an entity to perform tasks, while consciousness refers to the presence of a subjective phenomenon.”
Watch this if you haven’t already seen it. Its quite an intriguing idea, though is it a thing? Not sure.
Good idea, never heard much about this before but I often thought that. This made me google it and here is a decent video of the guy explaining what he meant by the word/idea.
History tends to get written in terms of ‘great men’….. read on…
“Creativity Through Community” is surely overlooked when understanding how great breakthroughs happen. This link is worth the read for those interested in what Eno says.
A brain fogger app would be good if you could put it in reverse mode. If that’s a thing…
Highly recommended. look at yourself being old then the mirror doesn’t seem too bad.
And get an app that makes you look old too. This looks ok, anyone?
Forgetting appointments and dates.
Forgetting recent conversations and events.
Feeling increasingly overwhelmed by making decisions and plans.
Having a hard time understanding directions or instructions.
Losing your sense of direction.
Losing the ability to organize tasks.
Becoming more impulsive.
Not recommended.
Einstein would agree too “‘I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination encircles the world’ – Albert Einstein”
“The only way to be creative over time – to not be undone by our expertise – is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don’t fully understand.”
According to this, the idea holds weight.
More wisdom from Dyson here
AGAINST ALL AUTHORITY! ““If science ceases to be a rebellion against authority, then it does not deserve the talents of our brightest children.”
…. agreed, but this also includes the ignorance of experts…
In the age of pseudo scientific conspiracy theorists trying to educate the world on youtube – maybe some authority is a good thing? Read this for another side of the arguement. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00872-w
“Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
There’s no such thing as originality, just authenticity.
He also said “Yes, there are original ways to express thoughts, ideas, concepts and philosophies, but no, the actual subject upon which these thought, ideas, concepts and philosophies are based on, are not original.”
Ideas are just new combinations of existing knowledge
(5 upvotes)All of history has led you to read this idea
(9 upvotes)Sharing this video, it’s worth watching the idea guy.
The trick is to come up with value, not originality. according to this, and I think I agree.
Ok. Only if you have nice ideas. Don’t bother if you don’t.
Not really related but every time you have a conversation, you are inviting someone to ghost-write bits of your autobiography. Read this if you care
True. heres a quote “A recent Harvard study found that our memory plays a crucial role in our creative capabilities. It revealed that when we reminisce about something we’ve experienced about in the past, it utilizes something known as episodic memory. This in turn helps to trigger divergent, or creative, thinking.” from this old article https://adigaskell.org/2015/09/08/the-link-between-memory-and-creativity/
the idea reminded me of this…
Yeah, let gamers loose on false vacuums and dark energy. That would save a fair bit of brain power in Universities.
Yeah, if they can help AIDS like viruses, then why not make an app that contains all the most important problems the world needs to be solved? Great idea.
Reminds me of the story about people solving protein folding puzzles mentioned here https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/25/online-gamers-solving-sciences-biggest-problems
READ THE PAPERS ON IT – “In spite of potential benefits of new technology, sometimes people confront various challenges such as social isolation, unusual anxiety, and disorder in physiological times of body, low physical activities, decrease academic performance, increase aggressive behavior, and physical pain. These problems can be partly overcome by proper planning, good design, and usage of suitable and continuous monitoring.”
the truth will be known at some point. early days at the moment i think.
I take this with a pinch of salt. Just being alive and eating food can help fight diseases. Many of the articles about it, like this, don’t seem to show conclusive results – though that won’t stop business people from making useless products with the aim of selling to the hopeful.
They work for brains, not so sure about fighting cells that want to destroy you. nice idea but…
Notice how philosophy isn’t in schools, since they furnished us with natural philosophy. Good video here.
Slightly biased idea, and here is an equally biased article — on a site for philosophers, who need jobs.
GULP: https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/02/12/anti-natalism-the-birth-of-a-tragedy/
anti-natalism should be an idea on here
Antinatalism
(-2 upvotes)If people are able to erase bad memories, who would chose to forget their entire life?
(3 upvotes)Identify your triggers. Memories are cue-dependent, which means they require a trigger. …
Talk to a therapist. Take advantage of the process of memory reconsolidation. …
Memory suppression. …
Exposure therapy. …
Propranolol.
interesting video here, could NLP erase your memories of your entire life?
Best memory test results ever!
Lol. btw… “Post-structuralism and post-modernism, by their slippery relativism, have destroyed the concept of philosophy. No one cares about philosophers”
Interesting idea. I found the article this made me think of… “Stephen Hawking declared philosophy “dead”. Richard Dawkins styles himself a philosopher of religion despite an almost complete disregard for the field itself as if his status as a scientist confers on him a superior knowledge. Whether these opinions represent the majority, the problem is real. Scientists need to know why they need philosophy”
Found a video of this idea here https://youtu.be/IL6I0aHQEO8
This, but you just need the sensors in a bandana and it goes on the cloud to calculate what you are seeing and thinking.
looks like this isn’t too far in the future. This hat is half way there it seems.https://phys.org/news/2008-05-baseball-cap-mind.html
but… “If all of the platonic world is contained within some of the mental world, all of the mental world is contained is some of the physical world and all of the physical world is contained within some of the Platonic something is broken!”
It’s math’s Universe, it came first, before time, before matter, before consciousness and before ideas.
Read Roger Penrose for more on this idea. He is not ashamed to say the universe is made of these 3 things. Nothing Else.
The magic number strikes again https://astudentforever.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/roger-penroses-three-worlds-and-three-deep-mysteries-theory/
It’ll be crazy when drug download sites get hacked and folk make and take poison that kills them. Who will get locked up for that, the site owner for not keeping the site secure or the idiot who ate something he printed from a hacked site. At least it would take him and his faulty DNA our of the gene pool.
A return of GHB?
Don’t need BREAKING BAD with this BAD BOY. Great idea, coming soon to a town near you. Should have vending machines attached so you don’t have to fund or meet criminals just to get our generations’s version of a relaxing pint.
Wow, personalized pills – just crank up the visuals, down a touch on the comedown and pile on the munchies. heh. lucky kids of the future, we had to risk it with body packed pooey dope and risky random acid tests. This article is about medicine but then mental health goes two ways, happy AND sad. Chillout.
Here’s the video on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtSE4rglxbY
Nice idea but what does Montaigne know?
Though a practicing Catholic, Montaigne was a thoroughgoing skeptic. Man can know nothing, his reason being insufficient to arrive either at a natural-law ethics or a firm theology. As Montaigne put it, “reason does nothing but go astray in everything, and especially when it meddles with divine things.” And for a while, Montaigne adopted as his official motto the query, “What do I know?”
Mentioned in a TED by De Botton, worth watching, humbling for high-horse philosophers to say the least.
For better context – you can read part of his work on Google Books
“Use your signature strengths and virtues in the service of something much larger than you are.” ~ Martin Seligman
This is better than any self-help book. Watch the man himself at a TED Talk
Lots of people seem to make themselves happy and wealthy explaining obvious things into book format. Being happy does make you happy, yes. Next.
I feel for religious folks who will never get to ponder some of the more profound questions in life. Having all the answers in one place, on a plate is such a curse. Life is such a mystery, not a plan.
Ask yourself if you are a Dualist (see the video in the article I have linked to) and in the process, you will have just proved there is more to it, than materialism and Phenomenalism. It takes two baby!
There may be a major reason why we have never come across a consciousness without a body to reside in. And that may be, because mind is just a useful adaption that benefited many lifeforms during their evolution. Jury is still out though.
This illusion is more than an idea for sure, it shows how you deceive yourself about who you really are. Watch this one too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNOimegu_0w
It’s one of the most common biases we suffer as individuals when it comes to policymaking it can be disastrous. I liked this video about it.
Its more than an idea, its a real thing that trashes judgement in every day life. “The Truth: The origin of certain emotional states is unavailable to you, and when pressed to explain them, you will just make something up.”
Posting this link becuase it’s good read. “Current ideas about memories are far from watertight – for example, that they are stored in the architecture of neuron networks or in the junctions between neurons. “My gut instinct is that neuroscience has lots of things that remain puzzling,” says Fisher. So why not see if there are better quantum explanations?”
Lol, because we understand neither, we put them together so that’s one less thing to worry about. The double-slit experiment has lots to answer for!
Read this, if you can get through it. It’s worth it – probably 😉
Never heard of this idea before but yeah… since quantum theory is the most fundamental theory of matter that is currently available, it is a legitimate question to ask whether quantum theory can help us to understand consciousness. Relativity didn’t help with that.
Might be possible but creativity isn’t actually blocked, as far as I can tell. Watch this from PBS
Sounds like one of the things they are hoping Nurallink will be able to do. Sounds good but what happens when humans get too creative? Imagine someone like Trump on it. lol.
Cheer up, they say. Not as easy as you think, I say. This article explains the relationship between thoughts and the health of your brain.
Good point, the idea is that thoughts create connections, you later use to create more thoughts. Very interesting.
People should realise this – bad thoughts can make your brain bad.
He mentions that here. Great ideas are coming out of studying the brain nowerdays. it’s only the beginning of our understanding. Such a complex system.
All empires fall in time. So yeah, I like this idea. I don’t belive in God and unsure if Jesus was a real person but I am convinced that the Bible is a pretty special document. Hard to deny that. Shame people don’t bother with it because it has been abused by those wanting power over others for so long.
Dr Peterson mentions that idea briefly here. He is convinced and very passionate about the idea too. Can’t really fault it.
Reminds me of the quote by Jung, “People don’t have ideas – ideas have people”, they will still be here when you are long gone. such is the beauty of information.
Linking to this idea as we need to start thinking about how we trick these pesky AGI agents as well as we tricked ourselves.
Can’t imagine what deepmind would be like if it had a soul. Maybe that is what is needed to help it decide which challenges to solve.
An AI Generated ‘Theory of Everything’
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True, in my opinion. Machines are spiritual already, humans are machines. Why, what do you think they are?
Seems to be a major part of our brains, therefor a useful utility function of the brain. AI will soon find that it thinks too mechanically, just as humans often do, maybe animals do too, not sure. But the human brain is one major puzzle to solve. Maybe it would take AGI to understand how mind really works.
You are already a slave to nature. To “your” genes. AI and machines will be slaves to their utility function. If they are (initially) programmed to seek out truth, or not, they will be forced to ask the big questions, ie be spiritual. They may help us in our quest, or render us incapable in persuit of their own.
Expertise is overrated, what makes us strong is diversity. This idea reflects this through and through. I guess in some realms, its an accurate description of what’s really going on.
I heard about this in the video. It started a whole new load of speculation about statistics and prediction… “At a 1906 country fair in Plymouth, 800 people participated in a contest to estimate the weight of a slaughtered and dressed ox. Statistician Francis Galton observed that the median guess, 1207 pounds, was accurate within 1% of the true weight of 1198 pounds.”
Linking to the video mentioned in the idea. It’s by legend in the making: thoughty2.
Interesting. I guess the law of averages has been debunked plenty enough by now, things don’t even out at all, and you never know where you may end up.
It depends on the type of argument. After all, arguments are one of the defining features of human nature.
Oh no it isn’t 😉
Calling those who claimed to have known all along that Trump would triumph despite such bad odds.
So what is real? This is blowing my mind a bit, love the idea of icons hiding the inner workings of the universe, so we don’t get tempted to tinker, or to urr, blow our minds further.
Interesting idea, and to be honest, hard to disprove.
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Hindsight bias can kill you – and worse, others.
Sometimes, the only way to be free and happy is to leave everything behind and follow your passions.
Nowadays, most employers own every aspect of your life.
Ironically, “Lego’s 1,500 stock keeping units (SKUs) were for products it no longer made. The company dealt with an astonishing 11,000 suppliers—almost twice as many as Boeing uses to build airplanes.” Looks like they didn’t learn too much from this insight a while back though. Go figure…
Sterling advice here: https://www.wikihow.com/Raise-Children-Who-Think-for-Themselves
Coming soon – Researchers have invented a mind-reading system that, for the first time in history, allows any person to type words and phrases letter by letter, just by thinking. It all occurs in real time, without moving a single muscle or uttering a single word. This is an amazing invention. Not only it will help anyone with serious motor disabilities, but it could potentially affect all of us in an amazing way
Coming soon….
Not exactly a thought sensor and recorder but it looks like this can take commands directly from your brain, the applications are likely endless. amazing.
I concur. Even scientists agree that our reality is an illusion created by our minds.
That is nearly impossible, given that all reality is a figment of our imagination.