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,…
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 have a deep mental understanding of what is to be done in many areas, but I don’t do it. Reading an article about a…