of Bruno? I see his last contribution here was a
> couple of years ago.
>
> Best wishes,
> Liz
>
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2023 at 22:15, Russell Standish wrote:
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> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I finally got around to doing something I meant to do years ago - I
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> >"So to compare apples with apples - the human brain contains around 700
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> I beli
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semi-autobiography is also one of the clearest explanations of his
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> > Don't forget it requires a society of hundreds of millions of human
> level intelligences to make a GPT-4. And it take a human level
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recent price collapse Nakamoto is still one of the
> richest men in the world, and yet he doesn't seem to have ever spent a single
> nickel of his vast fortune. It's weird.
>
Interesting. I did not know that. Of course, some of us old-timers
remember that Hal was a member of this li
the very concept of information makes no sense, and
without information, Darwinian evolution doesn't happen.
ISTM, no-collapse QM is a continuous theory, it lacks this cut, which
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have to date been unconvincing, just
like the ones against the DA.
Personally, I think it is interesting that we can provide some hard
numbers around the nature of the "hard question", contra John Clark's
assertion that nothing can be said about consciousness.
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However, your quibbles below are easy to address - see below.
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> >> even with your frugal ways solar cells aren't enough to make you
> energ independent, you still have to hook u
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> On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:07:32AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
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> > It is refuted by the idea of unitary evolution in QM. Unita
er of accessible
microstates increasing over time, due to the expansion of the
universe, but that the total number remains constant, or is even
infinite? Or does that place us right back at the original problem of
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some Asian cultures, though.
And finally, being an "island continent" makes it easier to shut our
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> > On 24 May 2020, at 01:37, Russell Standish wrote:
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> > However, I would think that ultrafinitism would change COMP's
> > predictions, and in a sense be incompatibe with it. Some programs will
e with it. Some programs will
not exist, because one would need to wait too long for them to be
executed by the UD. In fact, the choice of reference universal machine
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On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 07:08:25PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 6:14 PM Russell Standish wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 09:45:38PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 5:26 PM Russell Standish
> wrote:
> >
On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 06:50:52PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 5:32 PM Russell Standish wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 10:44:37AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
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> > That is, in fact, false. It does not generate the same strings
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 09:45:38PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
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>
> But a very large proportion of them (→1 as N→∞) will report being
> within ε (called a confidence interval) of 50% for any given ε>0
>
so equal the probability of seeing exactly
N/3 coins land head up when N coins are tossed.
What is the profound difference?
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> On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 09:46:34AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
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> > The greater problem is that any idea of probability founders wh
is a classic symptom of such a shift.
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a connectionist shortcut. I think it is
interesting from a having another tool in the toolbox, but probably
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> > > I'm glad you recogniz
ven in my first paper on the subject: "Why Occams
Razor".
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e", the mechanism of which is quite
unimaginable as you point out. An argument by incredulity, as it were,
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a geographical factoid
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r on a parallel computer,
however that there is also a more complicated algorithm that is
inherently serial, but actually runs faster than the paralellised one.
I have a feeling that may have happened here. But I look forward to a
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RSSA position. If you want to say you are randomly sampled from all
your life's observer moments (ASSA), you have to take account the
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; oneself younger than 120 years, QI is false, and if MWI is still considered to
> be true, there must be another argument why MWI does not imply QI.
>
Once I tried to use this argument against the ASSA in a debate with
Jacques Mallah. I lost. This line of argument fails.
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insignificant compared with those of moderate age, so no, your
argument fails. The latter was my mistake in an argument I had with
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On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 07:42:18PM -0700, Alan Grayson wrote:
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>
> On Monday, September 16, 2019 at 7:20:57 PM UTC-6, Russell Standish wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 08:25:06PM -0700, Alan Grayson wrote:
> >
> > Whether they're boring or not is
that defines
it, and consequently nonzero measure. If these worlds are drawn from
an uncountable infinite set, then there must be an uncountable number
of copies of each world.
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article/the-neuroscience-of-reality/
>
Interesting article. I might just forward this onto another correspondent of
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On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 05:08:42AM -0400, John Clark wrote:
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> wrote:
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>
> > This is all different from John Clark's argument that something must
> exist to breathe fire into all the computations. He calls that
&g
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>
> On Friday, August 23, 2019 at 5:54:17 PM UTC-5, Russell Standish wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 10:28:39AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> >
> > On 20 Aug 2019, at
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 01:15:38PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote:
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> On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 07:34:26PM -0700, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything
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> >
> >
> > On 8/24/201
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>
> On 8/24/2019 6:31 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 10:06:38AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 9:45 AM Russel
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 10:06:38AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 9:45 AM Russell Standish
> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 05:18:47PM -0400, John Clark wrote:
> >
> > >> OK so 0=1, that's fine.
> >
> >
problems because they don't exist. And there are no minds that might be
> upset by paradoxes.
>
That's kind of the point, though. Minds are nonphysical things, and
there is no apriori reason why physical things need to exist for minds
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arXiv: 1712.01816.
That paper to me is probably the most significant result in this area
since I published my book.
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computations, and the algorithms
go by the name "memoisation", and are a form of optimisation where
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ether it is the true, false or independent. ... Thus Ω is
truly the number of Wisdom, and 'can be known of, but not known,
through human reason' [C.H Bennett and M. Gardner, Sci
Am. 241:11(1979),20-34]".
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uent runs of the machine (ie only
the original run of Klara is conscious, the recording reruns of
Olympia are not, nor might any accidental recordings either).
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d doesn't blink back into existence
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oyos" (Open your eyes) that deals with this
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acetime. Sadly,
my mathematical chops are not strong enough to make headway on this
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y faux frères - pairs of
similar words with distinctly different meanings in French and
English.
> Many users lost some psychological trait, like sense of humour, or some
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just is" wins out at the end, but that would be like: OK science stops
here.
BTW - computationalism already has a "some things exist, others don't"
moment. The CT thesis implicitly assumes that hypercomputers do not
exist. If they did, then there would be some comput
On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 05:11:20PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote:
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> On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 04:12:00PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> > On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 10:27 AM Russell Standish
On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 04:12:00PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote:
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>
> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 10:47:36PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 10:14 PM Bruno Marchal
> wrote:
> >
tist case, as the CT
thesis is an explicit assumption. Except that the Movie Graph Argument
is supposedly about that case.
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e is talking about. But it seems
like he could, so perhaps therefore he thought he should?
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think we get the balance right on the everything-list, otherwise I
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laying around with a bunch of atoms. All these properties of consciousness
> are
> having their source in the unformalizable self-reference.
>
The same argument was made in favour of vitalism - before the
structure and mechanics of DNA was discovered.
Self-reference is formalisable. Se
space. One possibility is to bootstrap the observer by
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realised decades ago are
still widely misunderstood.
One might ask what developments have occurred since Bruno submitted
his thesis (I recall there's been one or two, but not many). The most
fertile period of a scientist's li
ably only as a location.
>
Hod Lipson's starfish's representation of itself is no doubt rather
simple and crude, but it does pose the question of whether it might
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constructed that way), then I would
extremely doubt it has any sort of consciousness. A more interesting
possibility is Hod Lipson's "starfish" robot, which has self-reference baked
in.
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On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 02:22:05PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
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>
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 12:06:00PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> >
> > My problem with your idea that the function: "(n-1)+1"
ly to the integers. We do not want a
> definition of 'computable', that makes all reals computable.
You cannot represent n as a finite string for an arbitrary real number
n. But you can for an arbitrary integer n.
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> On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 05:31:00PM -0500, John Clark wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 11:04 AM Bruno Marchal wrote:
> >
> &
On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 06:48:19PM -0500, John Clark wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 6:25 PM Russell Standish wrote:
>
>
> > OK, so what about the program "print X+1", where X is the expansion of
> the number BB(8000)-1?
>
>
> Well what
nt n" command. But that's not computing that's just printing.
OK, so what about the program "print X+1", where X is the expansion of
the number BB(8000)-1?
If that's not computing something, then I'm sure I can cook up
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