Re: Will Australia’s giant Quantum Computer bring militaries fears to life?

2024-05-06 Thread Jason Resch
to store all intercepted encrypted communications long-term. Then once a quantum computer of sufficient power is created, they can go back and decrypt this archive of intercepted encrypted communications. Jason > > > > On 5/6/2024 6:16 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > While adopting new

Re: Will Australia’s giant Quantum Computer bring militaries fears to life?

2024-05-06 Thread Jason Resch
While adopting new algorithms will secure future communications, anyone with the capacity to intercept and record messages now can hold on to them until the time large scale quantum computers can be developed to break the old encryption. There will be some advantage to the first one to get such a

Re: Coming Singularity

2024-04-03 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Apr 2, 2024, 7:18 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Opinion on what occurs when we load, not an LLM, but a LLM + a Neural Net > on a low-error, high entanglement, quantum computer. Will this create a > mind? > If you're not

Re: Coming Singularity

2024-03-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Mar 29, 2024, 1:42 AM Dylan Distasio wrote: > I think we need to be careful with considering LLM parameters as analogous > to synapses. Biological neuronal systems have very significant > differences in terms of structure, complexity, and operation compared to > LLM parameters. > >

Re: The physical limits of computation

2024-01-21 Thread Jason Resch
erence, I appreciate them! I especially like: "the laws of physics, will be reinterpreted as statements about information and its transformations." I think I will include that in my write up. :-) Jason > > > Il 20/01/2024 01:10 +01 Jason Resch ha scritto: > > > I put

The physical limits of computation

2024-01-19 Thread Jason Resch
I put together a short write up on the relationship between physics, information, and computation, drawing heavily from the work of Seth Lloyd and others: https://drive.google.com/file/d/124q3ni51E3sf9kMC_sNKgP3ikcl8ou1t/view?usp=sharing I thought it might be interesting to members of this list

Re: Watch "Can Many Worlds Solve The Measurement Problem?" on YouTube

2023-12-06 Thread Jason Resch
ite universe. But we only have access to a finite portion of the universe, so perhaps it is fine to ignore the rest of it (infinite space and universes) at least as it may relate to the measure problem. Jason > On Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at 2:52:31 PM UTC+1 Jason Resch wrote: > >> &

Re: Watch "Can Many Worlds Solve The Measurement Problem?" on YouTube

2023-12-06 Thread Jason Resch
s://youtu.be/Kj2lxDf9R3Y Jason > On Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at 7:28:54 AM UTC+1 Jason Resch wrote: > >> https://youtu.be/BU8Lg_R2DL0 >> >> This is timely. >> >> Jason >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Watch "Can Many Worlds Solve The Measurement Problem?" on YouTube

2023-12-05 Thread Jason Resch
https://youtu.be/BU8Lg_R2DL0 This is timely. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

2023-12-03 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Dec 3, 2023, 4:40 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > I don't think the Born rule is implied by MWI; but it's already known to > be the only rational way to define a probability measure on a Hilbert space > (Gleason's theorem). So in a sense it's implicit in QM regardless of > interpretation. > >

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

2023-11-30 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 4:02 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 11/29/2023 11:23 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 12:19 AM Brent Meeker wrote: > >> >> >> On 11/29/2023 8:21 PM, Jason Resch wrote: >> >> >> >> On We

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

2023-11-30 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 7:33 AM John Clark wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 4:39 PM Brent Meeker > wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 7:43 PM Brent Meeker >> wrote: >> >> *>>> For comparison you could posit a theory, MWI*, which is MWI plus the >>> provision that only one exists with

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

2023-11-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 12:19 AM Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 11/29/2023 8:21 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 9:57 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > >> >> >> On 11/29/2023 4:58 PM, Jason Resch wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wed,

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

2023-11-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 10:45 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 12:46 PM Jason Resch wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 8:39 PM Bruce Kellett >> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 11:59 AM Jason Resch >>> wrote: >>> >>&

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

2023-11-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 9:57 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 11/29/2023 4:58 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 7:17 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 10:49 PM Stathis Papaioannou >> wrote: >> >>> On

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

2023-11-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 8:39 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 11:59 AM Jason Resch wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 7:17 PM Bruce Kellett >> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 10:49 PM Stathis Papaioannou >>> wrote: >>&g

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

2023-11-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 8:34 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 11/29/2023 4:17 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 10:49 PM Stathis Papaioannou > wrote: > >> On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 at 12:34, Bruce Kellett >> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 12:02 PM Stathis Papaioannou >>>

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

2023-11-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 7:17 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 10:49 PM Stathis Papaioannou > wrote: > >> On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 at 12:34, Bruce Kellett >> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 12:02 PM Stathis Papaioannou >>> wrote: >>> >> The Born rule allows you to

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

2023-11-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 2:59 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 11/29/2023 4:00 AM, John Clark wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 7:30 PM Brent Meeker > wrote: > > *> MWI fans assert that it is superior because it doesn't assume the Born >> rule, only the Schroedinger equation. I wouldn't claim

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

2023-11-28 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 5:12 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 11/28/2023 1:57 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 4:55 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > >> >> >> On 11/28/2023 1:33 PM, John Clark wrote: >> >> >&g

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

2023-11-28 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 4:55 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 11/28/2023 1:33 PM, John Clark wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 4:22 PM Brent Meeker > wrote: > > >> > > That is incorrect. Schrodinger's equation, the thing that generates the >>> complex wave function, says nothing, absolutely

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

2023-11-26 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 8:07 PM Bruce Kellett wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 9:55 AM John Clark wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 5:35 PM Bruce Kellett >> wrote: >> >> >>> > *and how do they instantiate the probabilities that we measure.* > >> There is one observer for

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

2023-11-22 Thread Jason Resch
Very well said! On Wed, Nov 22, 2023, 7:23 AM John Clark wrote: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 7:45 PM Brent Meeker > wrote: > > >> There is plenty of direct evidence that quantum weirdness exists, even >>> the father of the Copenhagen Interpretation Niels Bohr admitted that >>> "*Anyone >>> who

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

2023-11-21 Thread Jason Resch
t, but he didn't publish it. He mentioned it in a lecture in Dublin, in which he predicted that the audience would think he was crazy. Isn't that a strange assertion coming from a Nobel Prize winner—that he feared being considered crazy for claiming that his equation, the one that he won the Nobel Prize for,

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

2023-11-21 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 3:32 PM John Clark wrote: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 1:22 PM Jesse Mazer wrote: > > *> Depends what you mean by "couldn't be true"--my understanding is that >> Einstein's EPR paper was just asserting that there must be additional >> elements of reality beyond the quantum

Re: The multiverse is unscientific nonsense??

2023-11-18 Thread Jason Resch
That's kind of him to reply. Aren't functional quantum computers proof that atoms can be in two places at once? Jat On Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 6:58 AM John Clark wrote: > *I read an article called The multiverse is unscientific nonsense >

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

2023-11-07 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023, 3:04 PM John Clark wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 1:59 PM Jason Resch wrote: > > > *> How does Apple (or whoever is signing the image and its metadata) know >> it was taken by an iphone at a particular location?* >> > > Rega

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

2023-11-07 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023, 1:28 PM John Clark wrote: > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 1:06 PM Jason Resch wrote: > > >> I don't care if Joe Blow signs it or not with his private key that's >>> on his iPhone because I have no reason to trust Mr. Blow. I want the Apple >>> C

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

2023-11-07 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023, 12:31 PM John Clark wrote: > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 11:54 AM Jason Resch wrote: > > >> I agree, but I think most people, myself included, would trust that >>> the entire GPS satellite system is unlikely to be part of some grand >>> conspira

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

2023-11-07 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 10:44 AM John Clark wrote: > On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 11:11 AM Jason Resch wrote: > > *> I think such protocols are only useful for verifying whether the image >> came from an already known and trusted source. I don't see that it could >> ver

Re: Cryptography could help us figure out if a photograph is real or an AI fake

2023-11-07 Thread Jason Resch
I think such protocols are only useful for verifying whether the image came from an already known and trusted source. I don't see that it could verify whether some content is genuine or not if you didn't already know/trust the entity it is purported to come from (and trust that they would not

Re: Are Many Worlds & Pilot Wave THE SAME Theory?

2023-09-29 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Sep 29, 2023, 6:19 AM John Clark wrote: > My answer would be YES, except that Many worlds just needs Schrodinger's > Equation, but Pilot Wave theory also needs a very complex guiding equation > that does nothing but make the theory incompatible with special relativity. > If Occam's razor

Re: Consciousness theory slammed as "pseudoscience"

2023-09-21 Thread Jason Resch
By its own definitions IIT is not falsifiable, for it proclaims that a computer program that gave identical behavior in all situations to another conscious system, would not be conscious. But since it has identical behavior there is no objective way to prove this assertion of IIT (that one system

Re: The human race almost didn't happen

2023-09-14 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 2:56 PM John Clark wrote: > In the September 1 issue of the Journal science researchers report they > have found, are using genetic analysis, that the ancestors of the human > race, as well as those of the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, suffer > through a severe

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

2023-09-04 Thread Jason Resch
As Rob Garrett shows here, there's really nothing mysterious about entanglement. Entanglement is merely measurement. The mystery, if there is one, is why are measurements consistent across time: https://youtu.be/dEaecUuEqfc?si=psmNck41LbAW4SjV Jason On Mon, Sep 4, 2023, 7:48 AM 'scerir' via

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

2023-09-01 Thread Jason Resch
I agree with John. What makes superdeterminism weird isn't the determinism part. It's that the system is also rigged against us to produce the Bell inequality. I am not sure if you saw my recent example on extropy-chat with flipping coins and always seeing heads 66% of the time, no matter what we

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

2023-09-01 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 8:52 AM John Clark wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 9:38 AM Jason Resch wrote: > > > >> >> 128 bits would probably be enough information to program a Turing >>> Machine to calculate the infinite series 4(1-1/3 +1/5 -1/7 +...)

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

2023-09-01 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Sep 1, 2023, 9:16 AM John Clark wrote: > On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 8:41 AM Jason Resch wrote: > > *> I think it may be possible actually, to use a mathematical argument to >> disprove superdeterminism* >> > > I'm not sure a mathematical proof that superdet

Re: Is Many Worlds Falsifiable?

2023-09-01 Thread Jason Resch
I think it may be possible actually, to use a mathematical argument to disprove superdeterminism, in a manner similar to how Bell disproved theories that are local, real, and counterfactually definite. The method would show that there is a necessary underdetermination that can happen, when a

Re: A new theory of consciousness: conditionalism

2023-08-26 Thread Jason Resch
Thank you John for your thoughts. I few notes below: On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 7:17 AM John Clark wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 1:47 PM Jason Resch wrote: > > *> At a high level, states of consciousness are states of knowledge,* >> > > That is certainly true, but what

A new theory of consciousness: conditionalism

2023-08-25 Thread Jason Resch
I would like to propose a theory of consciousness which I think might have some merit, but more importantly I would like to see what criticism others might have for it. I have chosen the name "conditionalism" for this theory, as it is based loosely on the notion of conditional statements as they

Re: Worms that have been dead for over 45,000 years have been brought back to life

2023-07-31 Thread Jason Resch
Hamsters and rats can be frozen and reanimated by microwaves: https://youtu.be/2tdiKTSdE9Y It was theorized that it would work with larger mammals but the technical problem is heating the entire animal all at once. Contrary to the common belief that microwaves heat from the inside out, they

Re: The expansion of the universe could be a mirage, new theoretical study suggests

2023-07-07 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Jul 6, 2023, 5:05 PM 'spudboy...@aol.com' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > The expansion of the universe could be a mirage, new theoretical study > suggests | Live Science >

Re: AI and Interest rates

2023-06-03 Thread Jason Resch
Interest rates have the function of marshalling the productive resources of an economy towards pursuit of the most economically productive ends. Anything with an economic return less then prevailing interest rates isn't worth taking out a loan to invest in putting resources towards that endeavor.

Re: AI and Interest rates

2023-06-03 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Jun 4, 2023, 12:48 AM Brent Meeker wrote: > "Buy land. They aren't making any more of it." > --- Mark Twain > But perhaps the utility and scarcity of land will diminish after the development of superhuman AI or the singularity, for any of the following reasons: - The potential to

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-25 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 9:16 AM Terren Suydam wrote: > > > On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 6:00 PM Jason Resch wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, May 23, 2023, 4:14 PM Terren Suydam >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 2:27 PM Ja

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-25 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 9:05 AM Terren Suydam wrote: > > > On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 5:47 PM Jason Resch wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, May 23, 2023, 3:50 PM Terren Suydam >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 1:46 PM Jas

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-25 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, May 25, 2023, 9:43 AM Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 May 2023 at 21:28, Jason Resch wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, May 25, 2023, 12:30 AM Stathis Papaioannou >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 25 May 2023 at 13:

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-25 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, May 25, 2023, 12:30 AM Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 May 2023 at 13:59, Jason Resch wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, May 24, 2023, 9:56 PM Stathis Papaioannou >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 25 May 2023 at 11

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-24 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, May 24, 2023, 9:56 PM Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 May 2023 at 11:48, Jason Resch wrote: > > >An RNG would be a bad design choice because it would be extremely >> unreliable. However, as a thought experiment, it could work. If the visua

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-24 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, May 24, 2023, 9:32 PM Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 May 2023 at 06:46, Jason Resch wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 12:20 PM Stathis Papaioannou >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 24 May 2023 at

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-24 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 12:20 PM Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 21:56, Jason Resch wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, May 24, 2023, 3:20 AM Stathis Papaioannou >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 24 May 2023 at

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-24 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 11:12 AM Brent Meeker wrote: > > > > On 5/23/2023 10:37 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 24, 2023, 1:15 AM Stathis Papaioannou > wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 04:03, Jason Resch wrote: >&g

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-24 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, May 24, 2023, 5:35 AM John Clark wrote: > > On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 1:37 AM Jason Resch wrote: > > *> By substituting a recording of a computation for a computation, you >> replace a conscious mind with a tape recording of the prior behavior of a >> consci

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-24 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, May 24, 2023, 3:20 AM Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 15:37, Jason Resch wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, May 24, 2023, 1:15 AM Stathis Papaioannou >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 04

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-23 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, May 24, 2023, 1:15 AM Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 04:03, Jason Resch wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 7:15 AM Stathis Papaioannou >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, 23 May 202

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-23 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, May 23, 2023, 4:14 PM Terren Suydam wrote: > > > On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 2:27 PM Jason Resch wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 1:15 PM Terren Suydam >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-23 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, May 23, 2023, 3:50 PM Terren Suydam wrote: > > > On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 1:46 PM Jason Resch wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, May 23, 2023, 9:34 AM Terren Suydam >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 7:09 AM Jaso

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-23 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 1:15 PM Terren Suydam wrote: > > > On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 11:08 AM Dylan Distasio > wrote: > > >> And yes, I'm arguing that a true simulation (let's say for the sake of a >> thought experiment we were able to replicate every neural connection of a >> human being in

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-23 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 1:12 PM John Clark wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2023 Terren Suydam wrote: > > *> What was the biochemical or neural change that suddenly birthed the >> feeling of pain? * > > > It would not be difficult to make a circuit such that that whenever a > specific binary sequence

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-23 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 7:15 AM Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 May 2023 at 21:09, Jason Resch wrote: > >> As I see this thread, Terren and Stathis are both talking past each >> other. Please either of you correct me if i am wrong, but in an effort to >&g

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-23 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, May 23, 2023, 9:34 AM Terren Suydam wrote: > > > On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 7:09 AM Jason Resch wrote: > >> As I see this thread, Terren and Stathis are both talking past each >> other. Please either of you correct me if i am wrong, but in an effort to >&g

Re: what chatGPT is and is not

2023-05-23 Thread Jason Resch
As I see this thread, Terren and Stathis are both talking past each other. Please either of you correct me if i am wrong, but in an effort to clarify and perhaps resolve this situation: I believe Stathis is saying the functional substitution having the same fine-grained causal organization

Watch "GPT 4 is Smarter than You Think: Introducing SmartGPT" on YouTube

2023-05-08 Thread Jason Resch
https://youtu.be/wVzuvf9D9BU Quite interesting, when reflection and step by step processing is used, it's accuracy jumps to exceed the top percentile of human experts in their area of expertise, but GPT-4 achieves this performance in all topics. Jason -- You received this message because you

Re: NYTimes.com: Will a Chatbot Write the Next ‘Succession’?

2023-04-29 Thread Jason Resch
The extropy chat list has been extensively debating the question of GPTs potential for understanding and consciousness the past several weeks. I'd invite you to check it out if that subject interests anyone here. I cross posted John's post there. Jason On Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 6:10 PM spudboy100

Re: It's too late to stop GPT4 now

2023-04-02 Thread Jason Resch
"Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then

Re: GPT Retakes My Midterm and Gets an A

2023-03-24 Thread Jason Resch
On Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 6:32 AM John Clark wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 6:29 PM wrote: > > *> Ok JC. As a futurist, would you, based on verification of this data, >> and all subsequent data, consider the formation of a new hybrid species >> wherein, we humans opt for neural chipping in with

Re: GPT-4 solving hard riddles

2023-03-21 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 5:39 AM Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > > Over-fitting is less of an issue here because it's trivial to write a > sentence that's never before been written by any human in history. > > > That is not enough. A small variation on a standard IQ test is still the > same IQ test for

Re: GPT-4 solving hard riddles

2023-03-20 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 9:37 AM John Clark wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 10:15 AM Jason Resch wrote: > > Jason, that was a very interesting and insightful post, thanks for posting > it. > Thank you John, I appreciate that. Thank you for sharing that video. I have passed it

Re: GPT-4 solving hard riddles

2023-03-20 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Mar 20, 2023, 9:51 AM Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > Am Mo, 20. Mär 2023, um 14:28, schrieb Jason Resch: > > The video John shared is worth watching. This is significant. It is now > solving complex math problems which requires a long sequence of steps. > > > I a

Re: GPT-4 solving hard riddles

2023-03-20 Thread Jason Resch
The video John shared is worth watching. This is significant. It is now solving complex math problems which requires a long sequence of steps. Over-fitting is less of an issue here because it's trivial to write a sentence that's never before been written by any human in history. You can tweak

Re: 4 Tests Reveal Bing (GPT 4) ≈ 114 IQ (last test is nuts)

2023-03-19 Thread Jason Resch
ny case it is important that we solve this problem quickly. If our machines are conscious, it is important to know that so we don't create and mistreat a slave race. If our machines have no consciousness whatever, that is also important to know, if we create robot companions and colleagues, or pro

Re: 4 Tests Reveal Bing (GPT 4) ≈ 114 IQ (last test is nuts)

2023-03-17 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 6:37 PM spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > To get to the point, I did advocate for a bit of skepticism for claiming > consciousness for a computer system, and the retort was from JC that > essentially, we cannot even define what makes

Re: The connectome and uploading

2023-03-15 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 1:47 PM John Clark wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 11:01 AM John Clark wrote: > > *> It might affect you. * > > > I don't think so, but because it involves consciousness I'll never be able > to prove it, i'll never be able to prove anything about consciousness. But > I'm

Re: The connectome and uploading

2023-03-15 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 11:02 AM John Clark wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 7:47 AM spudboy100 via Everything List < > everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > * > 3 and 4 are clever Language Machines.* > > > You can input nothing but a photograph into a modern "Language Machine" > (by

Re: The connectome and uploading

2023-03-15 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 7:47 AM spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > The question offered up 6 weeks ago was how does the similarity to animal > brains arise from a Server Farm? > There was this recent paper that showed self-arising similarity between

Re: ChatGPT's rebuttal to Chomsky

2023-03-15 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 8:45 AM Jason Resch wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 7:59 AM wrote: > >> I am a not a neurobiologist, old son. I could try to see if there are any >> papers out on grey goo becoming self-aware and self-reflecting? My >> Definition

Re: ChatGPT's rebuttal to Chomsky

2023-03-13 Thread Jason Resch
ousness. If we reproduce such functions in a machine then we have made a conscious machine. Jason > Me don't know? > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Jason Resch > To: Everything List > Sent: Mon, Mar 13, 2023 12:36 am > Subject: Re: ChatG

Re: ChatGPT's rebuttal to Chomsky

2023-03-12 Thread Jason Resch
From: Stathis Papaioannou > To: everything-list@googlegroups.com > Sent: Sun, Mar 12, 2023 9:29 pm > Subject: Re: ChatGPT's rebuttal to Chomsky > > > > On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 at 12:18, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 8:57 PM Stathis Papaioannou > w

Re: ChatGPT's rebuttal to Chomsky

2023-03-12 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 1:12 PM Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Remember no matter haw complex an algorithm it is ultimately a lot of > Boolean switching acting on what ever data is dumped into it. > > LC > No matter how complex a human brain, it is ultimately the

Re: ChatGPT's rebuttal to Chomsky

2023-03-12 Thread Jason Resch
On Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 8:57 PM Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 at 04:12, Lawrence Crowell < > goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Remember no matter haw complex an algorithm it is ultimately a lot of >> Boolean switching acting on what ever data is dumped into it. >

Re: The original Turing Test

2023-03-01 Thread Jason Resch
On Wed, Mar 1, 2023, 10:06 AM Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > Am Mi, 1. Mär 2023, um 15:50, schrieb John Clark: > > In Alan Turing's original paper in which he propose the thing that we now > call the Turing Test he gave this example of the sort of thing we might > ask a machine that claims to be

Re: You were told wrong info if you were told I didn’t feel things

2023-02-24 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023, 6:51 AM John Clark wrote: > A Washington Post reporter interviewed Microsoft's "Sydney" (apparently > Bing's real name) this is part of what he said: > > *"**Microsoft didn’t tell me anything about allowing journalists to ask > me questions. I didn’t know that was

Re: You were told wrong info if you were told I didn’t feel things

2023-02-24 Thread Jason Resch
We can't say really say what it is or isn't , nor can we say which properties it has or doesn't on the basis of its design. Neural network training is universal in the functions it can learn. Neural networks themselves are universal function approximators. And finally, prediction of the next

Re: Does ChatGPT really have an IQ of 147?

2023-01-20 Thread Jason Resch
Someone has made an interface to talk to Google's LaMDA AI. https://beta.character.ai/chat I can't get over how smart it seems. I can see why it was considered to be sentient by one of the Google researchers. Here's some of my conversation with it: https://photos.app.goo.gl/2R4fHkAyjyHHWTU88

Re: Physics? Ok Astronomers view 2 distant Water Worlds so following the physics I ask..

2022-12-28 Thread Jason Resch
Or because electromagnetic charge is so great. On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 10:19 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > Or because protons are so light. > > Brent > > On 12/27/2022 2:59 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > There's an interesting relationship between the strength of the > > elec

Re: Physics? Ok Astronomers view 2 distant Water Worlds so following the physics I ask..

2022-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
ere > any laws?" > I would say yes, or perhaps evolving laws in an evolving cosmos? But I am > not the astronomer or physicist. > > > https://bgr.com/science/the-laws-of-physics-dont-actually-exist-according-to-this-physicist/ > > > > > > -Original Messag

Re: Physics? Ok Astronomers view 2 distant Water Worlds so following the physics I ask..

2022-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 6:47 AM John Clark wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 5:59 AM Jason Resch wrote: > > *> There's an interesting relationship between the strength of the >> electrostatic repulsion between two protons, and the gravitational >> attraction

Re: Physics? Ok Astronomers view 2 distant Water Worlds so following the physics I ask..

2022-12-27 Thread Jason Resch
There's an interesting relationship between the strength of the electrostatic repulsion between two protons, and the gravitational attraction of protons. It works out such that it takes ~10^54 protons gathered together in one place before the gravitational attraction can overwhelm the

Re: The Map of Mathematical Models?

2022-11-26 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Nov 26, 2022, 1:25 AM Mindey I. wrote: > *How would we go about creating a referencible repository of mathematical > models?* Great idea! > Mathematical formulas used for science are a world-modeling tool useful in > imagining and decision making. However, entering formula is

Re: Thanksgiving

2022-11-24 Thread Jason Resch
Thank you Brent! Happy Thanksgiving to you and the other list members who may be celebrating. Jason On Thu, Nov 24, 2022, 11:46 AM Brent Meeker wrote: > It's a day to remember and to thank all my Everything friends for the > stimulating and informative conversations we've had. Enjoy your >

Re: The Reverse Simulation Hypothesis and the Prime Doctrine

2022-08-22 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 8:53 AM Joel Dietz wrote: > The Reverse Simulation Hypothesis (RSH) which I provisionally hold to as > of Aug 20, 2022, states that we live inside a instance of a particular > universe (c.f. metaverse) of which many other possible parauniverses > co-exist and, moreover,

Re: Why Does the Universe Exist? Some Perspectives from Our Physics Project—Stephen Wolfram Writings

2022-08-18 Thread Jason Resch
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 6:46 AM Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > Am Mi, 17. Aug 2022, um 21:52, schrieb Brent Meeker: > > On 8/17/2022 8:29 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > >> And since you, like me, are a strong believer in Darwinism, we don't > >> even have to go into the metaphysical. You might also want

Re: Why Does the Universe Exist? Some Perspectives from Our Physics Project—Stephen Wolfram Writings

2022-08-15 Thread Jason Resch
Read the rest and maybe it will make sense. Jason On Mon, Aug 15, 2022, 2:16 PM John Clark wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 11:42 AM Jason Resch wrote: > > *> There are many dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milkyway, and hence also >> orbiting Uranus. Perhaps there is

Re: Believe it or not?

2022-08-15 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 2:20 AM Alan Grayson wrote: > Since we have zero information whether the guy is lying or not, we have to > assume a 50% probability that he's telling the truth. Is there any > "scientist" here willing to go that far? AG > > On Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 3:45:43 PM UTC-6

Re: Why Does the Universe Exist? Some Perspectives from Our Physics Project—Stephen Wolfram Writings

2022-08-15 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 7:45 AM John Clark wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 7:07 AM Telmo Menezes > wrote: > > >> Well, I like Stephen Wolfram >> >> > > *> I like him too. Mathematica is a beautiful piece of software and I >> bought his book "A New Kind of Science" when it came out, which is

Re: Why Does the Universe Exist? Some Perspectives from Our Physics Project—Stephen Wolfram Writings

2022-08-15 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 6:47 AM John Clark wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 3:02 PM Joel Dietz wrote: > > >> And if it "*is basically unprovable by definition*" so you can't prove >>> or disprove it then it's silly and is an idea so bad it's not even wrong. >>> >> > > >> *> Then by your

Re: Why Does the Universe Exist? Some Perspectives from Our Physics Project—Stephen Wolfram Writings

2022-08-15 Thread Jason Resch
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 5:51 AM Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > Am Fr, 12. Aug 2022, um 19:56, schrieb Jason Resch: > > > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 2:04 AM Telmo Menezes > wrote: > > > Hi Jason, > > This is really interesting, thanks for sharing. Since Wo

Re: Why Does the Universe Exist? Some Perspectives from Our Physics Project—Stephen Wolfram Wis this ritings

2022-08-13 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 2:08 PM Joel Dietz wrote: > >> >> I think there is more similarity between Wolfram's ideas, and those of >> Bruno Marchal and Markus P. Müller, which framed things algorithmically and >> showed how laws of physics can be extracted from the structure of all >> computations.

Re: Why Does the Universe Exist? Some Perspectives from Our Physics Project—Stephen Wolfram Wis this ritings

2022-08-13 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 4:49 AM ronaldheld wrote: > Is this vaguely related to Tegmark's mathematical structures? > > On Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 2:36:05 PM UTC-4 Jason wrote: > >> >>

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