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> The term comes from an expected step change where technology starts to
> advance hyperbolically rather than exponentially l
ories break down well
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Even a name like Russell Standish is not unique enough. The other Dr
Russell Standish, also Australian, is an minister of the seventh day
adventist church, and has published numerous books on creationism
(arguing for it, I believe, I've never read any of them :). He first
came to my attention
On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 07:48:36PM -0700, Liz R wrote:
> On Friday 13 September 2024 at 12:20:01 UTC+12 Russell Standish wrote:
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> One of the consequences of the universal dovetailer argument is that
> if conciousness is computational, then physics is not.
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late the number that mattered.
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> Some of these numbers depend on how you’re thinking of “lifespan” vs.
> “lifespan so far” and how much of your actually-existing foreknowledge about
> the part of your life you’ve already lived you’re using. I’m just going to
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le, but could well be the latter :). At least
its not egregious nonsense like immigrants eating you pets :P.
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s the version of the document that the translation is
> based on?
Indeed it is!
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mathematical thing).
So either physics is arithemetic, with true randomness built in, or
consciousness is not computational.
I would go further that this conclusion follows if computationalism
was weakened to functionalism, but the logic is not quite so clear cut
in that case.
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conscious?), but I strongly suspect it involves some
notion of self-awareness. I struggle to come with an example of a
non-self-aware consciousness.
OTOH, consciousness needn't necessarily imply intelligence, but
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gets us into Tipler's Omega point theory,
for example).
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nd it does
appear to be remarkably effective at solving (at least heuristically)
computationally hard problems.
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news of Bruno? I see his last contribution here was a
> couple of years ago.
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> Liz
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mass migration, plagues, famine, infrastructure - what we need to
focus on is what we need to do to save civilisation.
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 09:55:28AM -0400, John Clark wrote:
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> >"So to compare apples with apples - the human brain contains around 700
> trillion (7E14) synapses"
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semi-autobiography is also one of the clearest explanations of his
ideas.
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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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ork! I tried last year, but got sucked back into my old contract
due to labour shortages.
Hopefully next year.
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ven after this 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 Ha
tion.
Without this cut, 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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guments against this argument 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 con
Hi John, always a pleasure to cross swords with your brain :).
However, your quibbles below are easy to address - see below.
On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 06:03:47AM -0400, John Clark wrote:
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On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 07:08:29AM -0500, John Clark wrote:
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> >> even with your frugal ways solar cells aren't enough to make you
> energ independent, you still have to h
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 07:29:55AM -0500, John Clark wrote:
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> aesthetics, we didn't want to cover the western half that f
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a bilinear
function (which you almost get from the axioms of probability), then
the state space must be a hilbert space, and the probability of A->B
is given by the Born rule. But for the MWI, you already
start with a Hibert space, so even this linearity issue isn't a difficulty.
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 04:49:35PM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
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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
number 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
having a low entropy initial state.
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e sake of the common good than our American friends. Not as much as
some Asian cultures, though.
And finally, being an "island continent" makes it easier to shut our
borders and control who comes into the country.
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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
e be incompatibe 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
would be significant in ultrafinitism, IIUC.
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Tensorflow, not "everything done in Python".
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rticle in full - just the summary writeup here:
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/new-hypothesis-argues-the-universe-simulates-itself-into-existence?rebelltitem=6#rebelltitem6
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re interested in the
value and its error bounds, eg 10mm +/- 0.1%, or 10mm +/- 0.01mm. We
can never know its exact value.
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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
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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 a
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:
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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
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also 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 11:34:55AM +1100, Bruce Kellett wrote:
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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
sort of misunderstanding
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
l finite
axiomatic systems", even in my first paper on the subject: "Why Occams
Razor".
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fluence", the mechanism of which is quite
unimaginable as you point out. An argument by incredulity, as it were,
for the MWI.
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e volume. This surely is a geographical factoid
rather than of fundamental significance.
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any times faster 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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is the
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
nonuniform measure as a function of age over observer moments.
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finds
> 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 fail
old observer moments may well be
insignificant compared with those of moderate age, so no, your
argument fails. The latter was my mistake in an argument I had with
Jacques Mallah once.
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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:
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> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 08:25:06PM -0700, Alan Grayson wrote:
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> > Whether they're boring or no
t 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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to be
larger than ℏ³. Quantum mechanics saves classical statistical physics'
bacon. Nothing blows up.
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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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> > This is all different from John Clark's argument that something must
> exist to breathe fire into all the computations. He calls th
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 10:24:47PM -0700, Philip Thrift wrote:
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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:
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> > 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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> > O
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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 Russell Standish
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 10:06:38AM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 9:45 AM Russell Standish
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> On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 05:18:47PM -0400, John Clark wrote:
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> > >> OK so 0=1, that's fine.
> >
>
blems 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
space and time are traded.
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theory whether 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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ocasticity to subsequent 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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Napoleon's, and doesn't blink back into existence
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quot; (Open your eyes) that deals with this
subject that I thought was quite good.
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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 hypercomputer
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:
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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
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ultrafinitist case, as the CT
thesis is an explicit assumption. Except that the Movie Graph Argument
is supposedly about that case.
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hat he is talking about. But it seems
like he could, so perhaps therefore he thought he should?
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That's good! You had me choking on my cornflakes :)
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