Today I’m going to ramble about ethics. Ethical systems are frameworks for guiding how we interact with others. I suppose this could include our ethics…
For example, a pair of 24$ pants that last 4 months might be .75$ per day of use (if it’s durable and lasts 2 years,…
The Simulation Argument (SA) always seemed pretty cool, but I didn’t realise how sound and quite what a conundrum it is until discussing it with…
They value socialising as an activity in and of itself. Whereas I tend to think about socialising in terms of some purpose :p They expect…
Part of the standard “problem of induction” is that any observation-based justification of induction uses induction. Which is generally viewed as circular reasoning. That is,…
So, as my Third Grand Goal is to create cute wittle living thingies, I’ve been thinking about exactly what kind of life to create. Alas,…
So the experiment continues. I noticed significantly more progress in some than others. In decreasing order: Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Arabic. Duolingo is better than ChineseSkill…
i’m doing a language learning experiment: how well can i do on about 10 minutes per study a day? consistent practice seems more important than…
In discussing whether simple developmental AI that have rudimentary self-programming are “alive” or not, I wanted a way to distinguish them from big switch statements…
I recently took Coursera’s Machine Learning course. I find looking at various aspects of life from a ML perspective can offer nice insights. One area…