Tag: reality
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(Machine) Consciousness
Recently, I have been thinking about “what it feels like” (roughly, Heidegger’s Dasein) and sensory perception. I feel like I made a big break-through when I realized that standard emotions (love, lust, loneliness, jealousy…) are kind-of uninvited guests that show up whenever they feel like, and wreak havoc with your life. So my thoughts turned to…
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Nominalism, Platonic Ideals and AGI
FYI. This post recaps my reply to a twitter post by Gwern on Transhumanism. It begins with Gwern remarking: “Platonism may be a useful trick for giving yourself the motivation to push on in math & exploit intuitions, but is not true in any pragmatic sense…” I reply. Neil Stephenson wrote a scifi novel “Anathem”…