It’s not always correct to neglect higher order terms. Tweets don't represent my employer. I follow a lot of people I dislike (not you though).
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Underappreciated cause of lib-left fighting on here is that the 80th percentile MAGA member is still dumb as a bag of rocks and the modal conversation with them is like dragging your face across cement. Very rare to find a lib as useless to talk to as the average rightoid
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For Hume The Bell Tolls retweeted
A Handy Beginner’s Dictionary of Philosophy:
• Agency (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Art (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Consciousness (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Existence (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Identity (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Justice (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Knowledge (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Life (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Meaning (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Philosophy (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Truth (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Person (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Rationality (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Reality (n): unsure; meaning disputed
• Self (n): unsure; meaning disputed
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For Hume The Bell Tolls retweeted
What's the best way to solve linear regression? (No, it’s not least squares.)
In our new paper, we show that principal component regression (PCR) beats, up to constants, every monotone spectral filter (incl. gradient descent & ridge regression) on every problem instance! (1/8)
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it's not any more problematic than the fact that fire is a plasma that burns everything it touches, or that gravity is an invisible non-reducible force the pulls everything towards itself
consciousness, in the colloquial sense, is an illusion
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the hard problem of consciousness is only hard if one believes there is a "you" in the body
something is having an experience, but it's not "you"
the concept of self is an illusion
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It's funny whenever some smartass goes "actually we are all atoms and everything is meaningless" to qualified people and learns that this isn't even remotely the academic consensus anymore.
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Not all who reject reductive materialism do so because of a desire for there to be a soul or something. In fact, if you accept some pretty reasonable positions and want to avoid a “magic” step, it’s pretty easy to fall into something that rejects materialism. It does sound
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Something that gets missed when this comes up is that in the heavily populated parts of the Americas, much of the vulnerability to disease also came from the severe societal disruption experienced. Many of the very damaging plagues were from (probably) endemic diseases
you know how native americans were utterly anhiliated by european diseases they have no immune response to? how come the europeans didnt catch native american diseases in the same way
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Not sure these are actually the best nine but I started naming greats until I ran out of space
No. 6 plastic death just should be "the first glass beach album" but for some reason they didn't have that. I actually hate plastic death.
Tried to pick one album of every genre. Not necessarily my favorite now, but the one that introduced me to that world
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No. 6 plastic death just should be "the first glass beach album" but for some reason they didn't have that. I actually hate plastic death.
Tried to pick one album of every genre. Not necessarily my favorite now, but the one that introduced me to that world
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Having to simultaneously read awful reasoning about the death penalty (from both sides) and presence of consciousness (from both sides) is going to be what finally ends me
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Consciousness is one of those tricky terms to describe. Its like an emergent byproduct of intelligence. Almost like attempting to observe an observation of itself.
But what is the connection between the presence of consciousness and reasoning for the death penalty? I was confused by that
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Let me sidestep this a little. I think many people in these discussions don't have a firm meaning in mind, and a large portion of them really just mean something like "acts in a way sufficiently similar to a human" or "is of moral consequence" (they *mean* that it means that).
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Who the hell said it "affects the truth of a claim"?
And there is a clear default position: we have no idea what causes consciousness, and any arbitrary claim that [insert mechanism x] causes it is likely false, but the floor is open to show it's really [insert mechanism x].
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AI will never have a soul. It will never be conscious. And it can never have rights.
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