Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-02 Thread LizR
On 3 September 2014 16:15, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi LizR, Yes, I am saying that there may be AIs around already unaware of our existence and vice versa! Cultures, languages, religions, etc. all have the behaviors that we would associate with entities

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-09-02 Thread LizR
PS I have to go in a minute to meet my other half to attend this... http://www.climatevoter.org.nz/debate/ On 3 September 2014 16:31, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 September 2014 16:15, Stephen Paul King stephe...@provensecure.com wrote: Hi LizR, Yes, I am saying that there may

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-08-31 Thread LizR
On 1 September 2014 04:27, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: The Kolmogorov complexity of AGI could be relatively low -- maybe it can be expressed in 1000 lines of lisp. That is not a crazy idea because we

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-08-31 Thread LizR
On 1 September 2014 16:36, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 12:24:37PM +1200, LizR wrote: As per what I was saying about Watson (or whatever it's called), the baby needs to be immersed in an environment in order to develop any form of consciousness

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-30 Thread LizR
, 2014 at 7:48 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I'm surprised that there are *no* populous universes anywhere in the string landscape / level 4 multiverse (if such exist). Or perhaps it's more likely that there are, but their proportion is so much lower than our sort that the chances

Re: Artificial Intelligence article

2014-08-30 Thread LizR
To be absolutely clear - the Artificial in AI refers to the machine which hosts the intelligence, not to the intelligence itself. The problem with machines defeating Jeopardy players (I assume this refers to this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy_%28TV_series%29 ?) is that the machines

Re: Artificial Intelligence article

2014-08-30 Thread LizR
On 31 August 2014 12:29, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 31 Aug 2014, at 9:04 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: To be absolutely clear - the Artificial in AI refers to the machine which hosts the intelligence, not to the intelligence itself. How can anything be artificial

Re: Artificial Intelligence article

2014-08-30 Thread LizR
On 31 August 2014 12:27, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/30/2014 4:04 PM, LizR wrote: To be absolutely clear - the Artificial in AI refers to the machine which hosts the intelligence, not to the intelligence itself. The problem with machines defeating Jeopardy players (I

Re: Artificial Intelligence article

2014-08-30 Thread LizR
I should have added - an environment that only involves abstract relations; it has no referents to a reality richly experienced via senses. On 31 August 2014 12:54, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 August 2014 12:27, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/30/2014 4:04 PM, LizR wrote

Re: Artificial Intelligence article

2014-08-30 Thread LizR
On 31 August 2014 13:10, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/30/2014 5:54 PM, LizR wrote: On 31 August 2014 12:27, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/30/2014 4:04 PM, LizR wrote: To be absolutely clear - the Artificial in AI refers to the machine which hosts

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-08-30 Thread LizR
I think the only test we have available for consciousness etc (for computers or people) is the good old Turing test. Once our AI starts killing of astronauts because they may interfere with its main mission (I was always with HAL on this one, what exactly was the point of those humans, again?)

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-08-30 Thread LizR
On 31 August 2014 17:30, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *LizR *Sent:* Saturday, August 30, 2014 8:55 PM *To:* everything-list@googlegroups.com

Re: Hal Finney

2014-08-29 Thread LizR
I didn't know him, of course, even online, but I'm always sad to hear that someone has died. Every man's death diminishes me... On 29 August 2014 23:18, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 29 Aug

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-29 Thread LizR
On 29 August 2014 18:17, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:01:38AM +1200, LizR wrote: Yes, I am hoping for a gradual decline ... what does the DDA have to say about other sentient species? If, say, the Andromedans were going to colonise their entire

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-29 Thread LizR
, LizR wrote: Yes, I am hoping for a gradual decline ... what does the DDA have to say about other sentient species? If, say, the Andromedans were going to colonise their entire galaxy, we'd almost certainly have been born one of them. Does it therefore predict that there will be no vastly

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-29 Thread LizR
Oops for smie read semi. Damn this no-editing feature! -- 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 post to

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-28 Thread LizR
On 28 August 2014 17:26, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 04:18:17PM +1200, LizR wrote: On 25 August 2014 14:16, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: You have to include all the people who will live in the future, as well as all those

Thin Ice

2014-08-28 Thread LizR
We saw the above mentioned film last night. The film-maker set out to find out what all the fuss was about climate science, and whether all those scientists could be part of some vast hoax - he did this by travelling to Antarctica and a few other parts of the world (including New Zealand) and

What sort of brain dead idiot...

2014-08-28 Thread LizR
...lets a 9 year old girl play around with an Uzi? (Well I guess we know, now.) The most appalling idiocy. Children should not have any guns within reach, even if they live on farms --- full stop. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-08-28 Thread LizR
Lots of games come with AI :-) On 29 August 2014 08:05, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Although my POV is aligned with the latter intuition, I actually agree with the former, but consider the kinds

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-08-28 Thread LizR
PS Arnold is hilarious. I recognised quite a few quotes ... but where was this one? ENDLESS LOOP - To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. On 29 August 2014 10:09, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Lots of games come with AI :-) On 29

Re: Artificial Intelligence article

2014-08-27 Thread LizR
Oops I should have read your comments rather than stopping to rattle of my reply. But I think we agree. On 28 August 2014 11:27, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: I disagree that * Artificial intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence is the simulation of intelligence

Seeing without seeing...

2014-08-27 Thread LizR
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140827-quantum-imaging-cats-undetected-photon-science -- 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

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-27 Thread LizR
On 25 August 2014 14:16, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: You have to include all the people who will live in the future, as well as all those who have lived in the past. Of course, which is why I added assuming a population crash, as per... With exponential growth rates

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-08-26 Thread LizR
On 27 August 2014 05:31, Terren Suydam terren.suy...@gmail.com wrote: For what it's worth, the kind of autonomous human-level (or greater) type of AI, or AGI, will *most likely* require an architecture, yet to be well understood, that is of an entirely different nature relative to the kind of

Re: AI Dooms Us

2014-08-25 Thread LizR
I'll be back! On 26 August 2014 07:20, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: a super-intelligent machine devoted to the killing of enemy human beings (+ opposing drones I suppose as well) This does not bode well for a benign super-intelligence

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-24 Thread LizR
On 25 August 2014 10:30, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: Attacks on anthropic reasoning will work better by choosing a reference class which is indisputably a subset of the reference class, such as all human beings, and then demonstrating a contradiction. I thought I had come up

Re: MGA redux (again!)

2014-08-24 Thread LizR
On 25 August 2014 08:43, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: That's because Bruno rejects the link between 1) and 2) and takes computation to exist in Platonia, independent of physics. So of course with that assumption physics needs to either be explained from computation (Bruno's program)

Re: MGA redux (again!)

2014-08-24 Thread LizR
On 25 August 2014 15:56, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/24/2014 6:21 PM, LizR wrote: On 25 August 2014 08:43, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: That's because Bruno rejects the link between 1) and 2) and takes computation to exist in Platonia, independent of physics. So

Re: MGA redux (again!)

2014-08-24 Thread LizR
On 25 August 2014 16:18, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 08:56:03PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: I think the idea is that quantum randomness is just first-person-indeterminancy relative to the universes of the multiverse. The holographic principle would

Re: Comp and logical supervenience

2014-08-21 Thread LizR
On 22 August 2014 08:00, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:00 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: There is nothing logically inconsistent about a fire breathing dragon powered by a nuclear reactor in its belly, but that doesn't prove that such an animal actually

Re: Comp and logical supervenience

2014-08-20 Thread LizR
On 21 August 2014 04:55, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: Chambers believes that if philosophers can conceive of something then it must be logically possible, and Chambers can conceive of a smart zombie, but young children can conceive that 2+2 = 5. And that objects cease to exist when

Re: Comp and logical supervenience

2014-08-20 Thread LizR
On 21 August 2014 04:55, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: There is nothing logically inconsistent about a fire breathing dragon powered by a nuclear reactor in its belly, but that doesn't prove that such an animal actually exists. Unless you believe that QM necessarily entails a

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-20 Thread LizR
On 21 August 2014 03:13, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 18 Aug 2014, at 19:31, meekerdb wrote: On 8/18/2014 1:35 AM, LizR wrote: Yes, I still haven't had a satisfactory answer on what that would mean for a computation - i.e. what physically differentiates identical computations

Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain

2014-08-20 Thread LizR
On 21 August 2014 02:44, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 20 Aug 2014, at 01:05, meekerdb wrote: On 8/19/2014 3:57 PM, LizR wrote: Why can't you make a copy? (Is that in practice, until the next breakthrough comes along, or is it impossible even in principle, like non-clonable

Re: Comp and logical supervenience

2014-08-20 Thread LizR
Is IIUC If I Understand Correctly ? (IIUC?) On 21 August 2014 13:06, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 09:42:22AM -0400, Richard Ruquist wrote: The requirement for observers in my mind makes comp equivalent to the Copenhagen Interpretation CI in the

Re: Comp and logical supervenience

2014-08-20 Thread LizR
(I don't see why comp is equivalent to the CI, mind you. Or what the requirement for observers in my mind means...) On 21 August 2014 13:16, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Is IIUC If I Understand Correctly ? (IIUC?) On 21 August 2014 13:06, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote

Re: Comp and logical supervenience

2014-08-20 Thread LizR
On 21 August 2014 11:57, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/20/2014 4:00 PM, LizR wrote: On 21 August 2014 04:55, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: There is nothing logically inconsistent about a fire breathing dragon powered by a nuclear reactor in its belly

Re: Comp and logical supervenience

2014-08-20 Thread LizR
PS Fire breathing dragoons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragoon indeed! Tres amusant. On 21 August 2014 13:24, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 August 2014 11:57, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/20/2014 4:00 PM, LizR wrote: On 21 August 2014 04:55, John Clark johnkcl

Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain

2014-08-19 Thread LizR
Why can't you make a copy? (Is that in practice, until the next breakthrough comes along, or is it impossible even in principle, like non-clonable quantum systems?) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-19 Thread LizR
On 20 August 2014 04:16, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: If your altered state of consciousness has no self-awareness, is it still consciousness? And there's self-consciousness, i.e. being aware you are thinking. So it's not 'fading' qualia, it different categories of consciousness.

Re: Comp and logical supervenience

2014-08-19 Thread LizR
On 20 August 2014 12:53, David Nyman da...@davidnyman.com wrote: In this vein I offer the well-known limerick of Ronald Knox: There was a young man who said God Must find it exceedingly odd To think that the tree Should continue to be When there's no one about in the quad. Reply: Dear

Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain

2014-08-19 Thread LizR
On 20 August 2014 11:05, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/19/2014 3:57 PM, LizR wrote: Why can't you make a copy? (Is that in practice, until the next breakthrough comes along, or is it impossible even in principle, like non-clonable quantum systems?) Not in principle. But as I

Re: Neuromorphic ‘atomic-switch’ networks function like synapses in the brain

2014-08-19 Thread LizR
On 20 August 2014 13:16, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Agreed, but isn't this more akin to a neural network rather than the DNA of an organism. Our particular network configuration -- e.g. the actual distribution of neurons and the synaptic

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-19 Thread LizR
, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/19/2014 4:44 PM, LizR wrote: On 20 August 2014 04:16, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: If your altered state of consciousness has no self-awareness, is it still consciousness? And there's self-consciousness, i.e. being aware you are thinking

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-19 Thread LizR
On 20 August 2014 12:27, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Why would different kinds of consciousness be a grandiose concept? Different *degrees* of consciousness was the grandiose concept. Different kinds is fairly mundane. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-18 Thread LizR
On 18 August 2014 20:10, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 August 2014 14:24, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 August 2014 15:49, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: I think that a sustained stream of consciousness will probably be part of a computation

Re: Comp and logical supervenience

2014-08-18 Thread LizR
On 19 August 2014 06:59, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: You're trying to isolate the consciousness from it's context so that it's just data and patterns and 1s and 0s and neuron pulses. I'm saying consciousness requires a context, in fact I think it requires a physics. This is, I

Re: dot dot dot

2014-08-18 Thread LizR
I wish that often, but then I'm (a) pernickety* about grammar and spelling, and (b) generally in a hurry! *Or a word spelled something like that! On 18 August 2014 23:44, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 17 Aug 2014, at 07:23, LizR wrote: PS You do know you can delete posts from

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-17 Thread LizR
On 17 August 2014 17:45, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/16/2014 10:19 PM, LizR wrote: On 17 August 2014 07:14, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Both consciousness and physics supervene on the computations, which exist necessarily. Consciousness does not supervene

Re: Electron spin and consciousness

2014-08-17 Thread LizR
Max T calculated that the brain doesn't act as a quantum computer because it isn't an environment in which qubits can be kept isolated from the environment long enough to support a quantum calculation. Of course he may be wrong - room temperature quantum computers may be possible, using effects we

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-17 Thread LizR
On 18 August 2014 06:41, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/16/2014 11:02 PM, LizR wrote: Indeed. This is generally my objection to theories that *require* conscious observers (and also my objection to people who say 1+1=2 is a human invention, by the way, since the laws of physics

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-17 Thread LizR
Now that was an enjoyable and informative post! On 18 August 2014 12:00, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 9:33 PM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: But you're looking at our theories as reality. If you look at them as models we invent to

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-17 Thread LizR
On 18 August 2014 12:34, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 18 Aug 2014, at 8:16 am, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 August 2014 06:41, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/16/2014 11:02 PM, LizR wrote: Indeed. This is generally my objection to theories that *require

Re: Electron spin and consciousness

2014-08-17 Thread LizR
On 18 August 2014 11:49, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: It got pretty heated when Teg questioned Hameroff back in the day. OK, I didn't know that. Teg was correct in an absolute sense that its far to warm inside the skull to.present a quantum

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-17 Thread LizR
On 18 August 2014 15:49, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: I think that a sustained stream of consciousness will probably be part of a computation that instantiates physics - instantiates a whole universe complete with physics. It would need to instantiate a stable enough

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-16 Thread LizR
Pierz, you have said exactly the reason why I am willing to give Bruno's ideas so much time. It's the fact that IF he's right, then he has actually caught sight of the end of the explanatory chain, which otherwise has only ever been grounded in an unsatisfactory deity or a chain of turtles - i.e.

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-16 Thread LizR
On 16 August 2014 16:48, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote: I assert this confidently on the basis of my intuitions as a programmer, without being able to rigorously prove it, but a short thought experiment should get halfway to proving it. Imagine a lookup table of all possible additions of two

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-16 Thread LizR
Um, I hadn't read your subsequent posts when I wrote the above. It looks like this is quite complicated, and I'm not going to bother my pretty head trying to be clever about it when you're obviously far more so on this subject. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-16 Thread LizR
On 16 August 2014 22:45, Richard Ruquist yann...@gmail.com wrote: Bruno IMO does not end the chain so-to-speak because he does not say where the natural numbers come from other than invoking Platonia. Super-string theory does. But it invokes even more turtles, like where do the ten dimensions

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-16 Thread LizR
On 17 August 2014 07:14, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Both consciousness and physics supervene on the computations, which exist necessarily. Consciousness does not supervene on the physics. Yes, I agreed to that. The question was can consciousness supervene on computations that do

Re: dot dot dot

2014-08-16 Thread LizR
Never mind, you stated your position nice and clearly, perhaps more clearly than you normally do on the EL. (...or is that why you're saying OOPS! ? :-) On 17 August 2014 16:54, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: OOPS! I didn't intend to post this to the everything-list; although it may

Re: dot dot dot

2014-08-16 Thread LizR
PS You do know you can delete posts from the EL, don't you? On 17 August 2014 17:23, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Never mind, you stated your position nice and clearly, perhaps more clearly than you normally do on the EL. (...or is that why you're saying OOPS! ? :-) On 17 August 2014 16

Re: Shalosh B. Ekhad: In Computers We Trust?

2014-08-15 Thread LizR
I guess we've picked all the low-hanging fruit in Platonia, or wherever this stuff lives. -- 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

Re: [New post] Quantum Foundations of a Classical Universe

2014-08-15 Thread LizR
Sounds interesting. I wonder if there will be any new ideas on this topic. -- 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

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-14 Thread LizR
On 15 August 2014 01:15, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote: Liz did you ever get to grips with the counterfactuals business? In case not, the way I would summarize it is this. Consider a computer game in which you fly through some 3D landscape. The game is intelligent because it can respond to

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-14 Thread LizR
On 15 August 2014 01:45, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote: OK so that is back to hard problem, which for people who are fundamentally interested in engineering is also the uninteresting problem or the pointlessly distracting problem. For me, software engineer by trade,

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-14 Thread LizR
On 15 August 2014 06:51, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/14/2014 6:45 AM, Pierz wrote: That is a weird assumption to me and completely contrary to my own intuition. Certainly a person born and kept alive in sensory deprivation will be extremely limited in the complexity of the

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-14 Thread LizR
On 15 August 2014 09:29, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/14/2014 11:40 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: Then it'd be no problem for you guys to clearly spell out what that environment is. Yes, that's a problem. The MGA considers a computational sequence that produces some

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-14 Thread LizR
On 15 August 2014 09:29, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: So you are sniping away at step 0 in the context of discussing step 8. Sniping is pejorative. Is there some rule I can't question step 0? Unlike JKC I'm generally willing to take something I doubt as a hypothetical to see where

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-14 Thread LizR
On 15 August 2014 12:24, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/14/2014 4:58 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 August 2014 06:51, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/14/2014 6:45 AM, Pierz wrote: That is a weird assumption to me and completely contrary to my own intuition. Certainly

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-14 Thread LizR
On 15 August 2014 12:03, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: It's seem like you (and Liz) have a complaint that I don't have some fixed world view that I'm proposing and defending and which I'm obliged to explain. I can't speak for Pierz but my complaint is that you often don't make your

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-14 Thread LizR
On 15 August 2014 12:40, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: If counterfactual correctness and causal environmental reference are not needed for consciousness then consciousness will be instantiated by any sequence of states, OK. From which I can only deduce that either consciousness isn't

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-14 Thread LizR
On 15 August 2014 12:50, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: The consequence of assuming that counterfactuals make no difference in your supervenience thesis is that it implies consciousness supervenes on a recording. I constantly stumbled over this point too, as it is not

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-14 Thread LizR
On 15 August 2014 13:10, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 August 2014 12:03, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: It's seem like you (and Liz) have a complaint that I don't have some fixed world view that I'm proposing and defending and which I'm obliged to explain. Sorry, I should

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-14 Thread LizR
On 15 August 2014 14:15, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: I was suggesting that his idea that sensory deprivation would be terrible was an unjustified intuition based on how *he*, as an adult, would feel if he were deprived of all sensation. And while the womb does not produce complete

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-13 Thread LizR
a comment, which you might try to guess from my preview post (notably to Brent) on this issue. On 12 Aug 2014, at 02:48, meekerdb wrote: On 8/11/2014 4:03 PM, LizR wrote: I have never got this idea of counterfactual correctness. It seems to be that the argument goes ... Assume

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-13 Thread LizR
On 14 August 2014 15:10, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:41 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 August 2014 07:35, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/13/2014 6:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 12 Aug 2014, at 11:24, Bruno Marchal

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-12 Thread LizR
On 12 August 2014 17:17, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/11/2014 9:27 PM, LizR wrote: On 12 August 2014 15:50, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/11/2014 8:26 PM, LizR wrote: Well, I guess a physical UD would be made robust against quantum uncertainty, like all

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-11 Thread LizR
Got it, thanks. Not too long so I will be able to read it in the near future :-) I hope that is just an honest mistake, Bruno, and no one has been messing with your email deliberately. Do you have another email you can use? (e.g. a GMail one) On 11 August 2014 20:43, Bruno Marchal

Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers

2014-08-11 Thread LizR
: Let me know when its ready to download? Oh yes indeed. That is the subject of my first novel, currently in the process of editing, good post apocalyptic fun set after those people have more or less achieved their aim. -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-11 Thread LizR
.) On 12 August 2014 09:40, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Got it, thanks. Not too long so I will be able to read it in the near future :-) I hope that is just an honest mistake, Bruno, and no one has been messing with your email deliberately. Do you have another email you can use? (e.g. a GMail

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-11 Thread LizR
? (if I got that right) On 12 August 2014 11:03, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: I have never got this idea of counterfactual correctness. It seems to be that the argument goes ... Assume computational process A is conscious Take process B, which replays A - B passes through the same machine

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-11 Thread LizR
On 12 August 2014 12:48, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/11/2014 4:03 PM, LizR wrote: I have never got this idea of counterfactual correctness. It seems to be that the argument goes ... Assume computational process A is conscious Take process B, which replays A - B passes through

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-11 Thread LizR
On 12 August 2014 15:12, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: A makes decisions in response to the world. Although, ex hypothesi, the world is repeating its inputs and A is repeating his decisions. (I assume you mean B is repeating?) Note that this assumes QM doesn't apply at the

Re: MGA revisited paper

2014-08-11 Thread LizR
On 12 August 2014 15:50, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/11/2014 8:26 PM, LizR wrote: Well, I guess a physical UD would be made robust against quantum uncertainty, like all computers, but why do we need to assume QM apply? The argument assumes it doesn't apply, so

Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers

2014-08-10 Thread LizR
On 10 August 2014 02:15, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: You don't need to alter your politics, simply be aware, that there appear to be rich people who seek a die-off. Oh yes indeed. That is the subject of my first novel, currently in the process of

Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers

2014-08-10 Thread LizR
have more or less achieved their aim. -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sun, Aug 10, 2014 2:05 am Subject: Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers On 10 August

Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers

2014-08-10 Thread LizR
as connectivity required for the appropriate item. JM On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:05 AM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 August 2014 02:15, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: You don't need to alter your politics, simply be aware, that there appear to be rich

Re: August Exam (was Re: Comp Bedtime Stories)

2014-08-08 Thread LizR
On 9 August 2014 06:25, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Otherwise teleportation will destroy you, so the chances are 0 in each case.) Strictly speaking this does not follow, as if comp is false, you might still survive with the help of some magic. But normally, without using the

Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers

2014-08-08 Thread LizR
On 8 August 2014 23:42, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: When we look at geophysical forces, the action of biochemistry, over the long millions of years, humankind is puny. Nature, Biochemistry, Geo-activity, Evolution, are all neutral things, because it

Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers

2014-08-08 Thread LizR
On 9 August 2014 12:53, Pierz pier...@gmail.com wrote: Let me clear up the German at least. Heil dem Planeten! = Hail the planet! Heil(e) den Planeten! = Heal the planet! Heil der Planet = I'm an asshole On the puzzle you set us Alberto, ooh ooh, let me try! Gay marriage is anti-human

Re: August Exam (was Re: Comp Bedtime Stories)

2014-08-07 Thread LizR
On 8 August 2014 09:11, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: You are on Earth, and you need, for some reason, to go urgently on Mars. Bad luck, you can't really afford the 100% secure quantum classical teleportation channel Earth-Mars, but you have enough money to take a channel where it

Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers

2014-08-07 Thread LizR
On 8 August 2014 01:58, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: I believe Spud and Alberto should get

Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers

2014-08-07 Thread LizR
On 8 August 2014 03:13, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: I knew that the exercise was too hard for many of you. The exercise was why is gay marriage anti-human ? I thought my answer was fine. What's yours? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: The game explained to soft ecologist, ecoalarmist and alternative energy lovers

2014-08-06 Thread LizR
On 7 August 2014 10:52, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: You are perfectly predictable. I was sure that the responses, if any would follow my last paragraph. This thread will become a meeting of lambs bleating about gay marriage while traveling happily to the slaugher. Dont count

Re: Comp Bedtime Stories

2014-08-06 Thread LizR
On 7 August 2014 08:56, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: I refuse to play this game where you get to knock down such generalization with partial edited posts, pretending they are held by anybody here in these strong forms, when you appear to needle and provoke the same

Re: Comp Bedtime Stories

2014-08-06 Thread LizR
...@verizon.net wrote: On 8/6/2014 4:34 PM, LizR wrote: On 7 August 2014 08:56, Platonist Guitar Cowboy multiplecit...@gmail.com wrote: I refuse to play this game where you get to knock down such generalization with partial edited posts, pretending they are held by anybody here

Re: Comp Bedtime Stories

2014-08-05 Thread LizR
On 5 August 2014 23:28, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: I have been arguing against not being aware of the premises, not for one of the premises. Yes, my apologies, I think you and I are arguing for the same (or similar) agnosticism. It's Brent who is arguing from an assumed set

Re: Comp Bedtime Stories

2014-08-05 Thread LizR
On 6 August 2014 04:27, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: No I do not, the question has a precise answer and does not require probability, but before I can give you that precise answer I need to know what you mean by the H-guy. Does it mean: 2) The fellow currently experiencing

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