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So, one thing that has definitely come to light in recent days / weeks is that a lot of us are running around with fundamentally different views of reality at the moment. In some people’s worlds, Obama is a hero - in others, he’s a muslim terrorist or ( Read more... )

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So, as we sit amongst the facebook election madness - and it’s been unusually rabid this cycle, for a whole host of reasons, I find myself thinking of the fact that we’re all flawed.

Now, every election cycle, it seems we spend a lot of time underlining ( Read more... )

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So, one of the quotes that I’ve often given of my internal version of $person is “The people in heaven and hell inhabit the same physical space. The difference is in what’s going on in their minds.”

And, this may be one of my more tinfoil-hat thoughts, but ( Read more... )

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So, I was watching vihart’s channel, and I came across https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toap7iPpTbs.

I didn’t make it all the way through the video. Perhaps at some point I will. I’m not really over being sad about all the horrific things that have been ( Read more... )

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So, I had a thought the other day about the recent epidemic of autism - and mind you, this is definitely tinfoil hat territory.

I think it’s possible autism is enhanced - made to be a more prominent trait - by standardized testing.

So, the basic thesis ( Read more... )

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So, watching Human has me thinking.. the general prevailing wisdom of religions is that we were engineered by a perfect being. But we’re clearly full of bugs, which people usually call a fatal flaw. If we were engineered, isn’t it more likely we were ( Read more... )

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So, one of the problems that I think we’re going to keep bumping up against here on Earth, at least in the USA where we ostensibly have a democratically elected set of people driving the boat, is that we all have different definitions of what winning means ( Read more... )

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TL;DR=The milgram effect may arise from the fact that most subnets in a NNN can’t tell the original source of authorative-tagged information

Warning: I haven’t organized my thoughts around any of this at all, and I have a affection-starved cat interrupting ( Read more... )

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So, in the discussions about what makes one identically-sized neural network smarter than another, there are a few obvious candidates - like the number and variety of interconnects - and then there are some more subtle ones, like routing protocols in use ( Read more... )

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So, as we approach the singularity - and all indications are that in about 15 years we will be able to build a mind bigger than ours, if Moore’s law holds - one interesting question is whether a larger neural network than us would be stable.

This is a ( Read more... )