Lorand Bruhacs
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Lorand Bruhacs
@bytecanyon
Philosopher by education, programmer by trade.
London, United Kingdom Katılım Aralık 2009
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You can learn a lot about a man based on which of these two books he prefers
Dimitri@thedimitri
You can learn a lot about a man based on which of these two looks he prefers
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@benjcartlidge Are Greek verbs more difficult than Sanskrit?
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Humblebrag: I never had a copy of that book
Tim Spalding 🇺🇦@librarythingtim
The Greek Verb system is so nasty that an Italian published a little cheating book of forms, "Tutti i Verbi Greci," in 1955, and, at least before everything went digital, I'd never met a grad student who didn't have a copy.
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The Mary’s room argument is wrong. Frank Jackson himself has said so, and changed his mind about it.
The mistake? Equating the cognitive pathways used in learning about something to those used in experiencing it.
It does give non-physicalists something to talk about though. 🙄
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@PAHoyeck My meta-study indicates that the true number is closer to 103%
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Studies indicate that 97% of things don't mean anything.
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Thesis: Buck Rogers
Antithesis: Dune
Synthesis: Star Wars
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If you’ve ever had to deal with bureaucracy of any kind you’d realize how far far away we are from even having the basic technologically competent institutions that operate anywhere near the logical/deterministic bare minimum. AI systems will not change that. If AI is to have a TRULY transformative impact on human society, we we will either have to
1) fix and upgrade those processes (a massive undertaking)
OR (far more likely)
2) have the AI work around them (essentially handing over all the power to the AI systems)
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@PAHoyeck @iceicebaby_6 Dune is drugs with a literary delivery system. The most dangerous kind of drug.
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@bytecanyon @iceicebaby_6 Just read Dune. Same thing, less sweaty.
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if in my twenties i dont have the energy to go clubbing will i regret it later
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@tunguz You can major in 15th century Peruvian lesbian basket-weaving. AI can't take that away from you because:
- AI didn't exist in the 15th century
- Even if AI had existed, it would have been a machine god and not a Peruvian lesbian
- Only humans can basket-weave (for now)
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just major in anything you like. colleges are just for the experience anyway. they have always been very loosely aligned with any kind of professional long term goals. now they are completely decoupled.
Kevin Xu@kevinxu
friend’s kid asked what they should major in college i almost cried what do you even say anymore
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@PAHoyeck @iceicebaby_6 People go clubbing in order to take drugs in an environment where everyone else is also taking drugs.
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@iceicebaby_6 I have never been clubbing once in my life and have never had the slightest desire to.
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New preprint: Modal Meta-Mary
What does Mary actually lack when she leaves her black-and-white room?
Not a single missing fact—but multiple ways of knowing.
This paper reframes the knowledge argument using:
- task-specific support
- modal stability across experience
- a new “Meta-Mary” relocation test
Result: Mary underdetermines ontology.
philpapers.org/rec/BRUMMS
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Marx lived in poverty for many years and in 1862 he was in such desperate straits that he tried to get hired as a clerk in a British railroad office. The answer to his application was negative, as he was told that he could not fill that position because of his bad handwriting.
Marx's handwriting was very small and almost illegible. After his death, Engels had to train Kautsky & Bernstein to decipher it. This was the beginning of a long work (still going on) that made possible the publication of an imposing mass of unpublished manuscripts left by #Marx.
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@DeivonDrago @LucienHeurtier If the world is willing to be led, we can definitely do it.
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"The UK risks moving in two directions at once: announcing major investments in future technologies such as quantum computing while simultaneously weakening parts of the fundamental research ecosystem that produce the relevant expertise" 🧪🔭
#UKRI
nature.com/articles/d4158…
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@DeivonDrago Ernst Mach famously called out from the audience “Hab’s aans g’sehn?” (“Have you seen one?”) at one of Ludwig Boltzmann’s lectures on atoms.
GIF
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Have you ever seen a photon?
Are these photons in the room with you now?
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I too have decided to become a flat earther.
Gaia - just because you're flat doesn't mean that you aren't an amazing planet.
april@April1happygirl
So I’m A flat Earth believer now Just had to jump into the rabbit hole. 🌍 🥏🤷🏼♀️
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@47fucb4r8c69323 Participatory anthropics would certainly be one solution, but it’s metaphysically strong and I stop short of exploring the implications of a “universe that participates in itself” in this piece.
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I absolutely love this. Love this. You seem to be preferring a kind of process philosophy ontology?
"fine-tuning is better understood as geometric fragility in realization space than as small measure in parameter space" This is compelling as a reformulation of the problem, which has some interesting entailments for us (what do the observed fragilities in realization space tell us about deeper structures than the observable). But it doesn't solve the mystery: why this geometry instead of a less fragile one.
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New preprint: I propose a new way to think about fine-tuning and the anthropic principle. Instead of focusing on constants alone, we should look at the deeper structures they come from—and whether those structures support stable, complex worlds.
philpapers.org/rec/BRUSAC-4
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You might have noticed a lot of people vagueposting. You really won't like the reason why.
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@DeivonDrago and my argument will meet all your effective field theory needs according to the riches of his glory in the anthropic principle
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@DeivonDrago @martinmbauer You don’t have to understand the questions to point out that heavy, expensive experiments have long cycle times, and that you could iterate much faster with lightweight experiments.
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@martinmbauer I am not sure he even understands the open questions that people are working on.
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Experiments don't "slow discovery", they make discoveries
Kekius Maximus@Kekius_Sage
🚨 Elon Musk says physics has stagnated and AI could overtake scientific research. He says progress has relied on expensive hardware like colliders and telescopes, that slows discovery.
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