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Jennifer RM
Artificial intelligence, biotech, blockchain, paper books, semantic archaeology, policy/ethics, meta, and citizenship points.
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Jennifer RM Jan 30
This paper goes specifically into comparative parrot neuro-anatomy. It suggests that the bird pallium is important, (convergently?) cognate to the human (prefrontal?) cortex, with (convergent?) higher bandwidth to the (conserved?) cerebellum.
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Jennifer RM Jan 23
Haha! Yeah. I was thinking specifically of you and your example, but this night is the first time I've ever had the two examples (that both hinge on "in") in my head at the same time I think :-P
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Jennifer RM Jan 23
Yeah. My current working model is that serious consistency is just intractable. Even basic logic runs into 3SAT. Many operations on belief nets are NP-hard. There are correct ways to do things... they are generally infeasible... therefore we approximate and satisfice.
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Indexical Banana Jan 23
Are people silly for not having coherent, non-contradictory beliefs, or is it silly to expect intelligent people to have global, universal, coherent beliefs about messy reality?
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Jennifer RM Jan 23
Replying to @literalbanana
At Veoh, I worked with a guy who used to work for the Cyc project. He had stories about the difficulty of getting predicates like "in" to work sanely. Like: Is paint on the inner walls of a room "in" the room? Is previous layer of paint also "in" the room? Same "in" for both?
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Jennifer RM Jan 23
Replying to @literalbanana
The stories often talk about a naval simulation game with well defined rules as an early inspiration for "simply" coding the rules for "everything". I always just assumed the microtheory thing was a pragmatic hack born of necessity? :-P
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Jennifer RM Jan 23
Replying to @literalbanana
The Cyc Project turned common sense into predicate logic... ...and found it necessary to create lots and lots of "microtheories" (locally consistent, mutually inconsistent) because anything vaguely large acquired contradictions.
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Jennifer RM Jan 10
Replying to @MorlockP
I'd love to read a two-strong-sides debate/dialogue on the question: "If one or more orphans has no realistic future prospects in society, why or when are they justified (or not) in burning that society to the ground and hoping to build 'future prospects' in the ashes?"
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Sarah Constantin Dec 16
Replying to @vgr @oscredwin
Different people of course have different values for what’s good, but once you start trying to *optimize* them you leave the mainstream fast. Ecologists think in terms of saving ecosystems, not cute polar bears. Development economists think about institutions and infrastructure.
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Jennifer RM Dec 6
Replying to @The_Lagrangian
My current model is that "high cholesterol" is caused by steatohepatitis (the liver sort of exporting fat to ANYWHERE else) which is mostly caused by alcoholism, too much fructose, and/or insulin resistance. The eggs might stress kidneys, but likely not your liver.
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Jennifer RM Dec 6
Replying to @blue_traveler
What if lives appreciate in value over time, rather than depreciating? More wisdom. More friends. Etc. Admittedly after ~30 the body falls apart... but you didn't ask about the depreciation schedule for bodies :-P
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loren schmidt Nov 20
oof, there it is. this is one of those moments where i palpably feel a sense of the rawness of things, of how close the underlying structure is.
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Jennifer RM Nov 12
Replying to @lorenschmidt
If internodes are springs, maybe add wind, then a rule for "thigmotropism" where "springs that bend get strengthened"? Add "multiplant ragplant physics": very weak springs give vines? Strong growth gives "trees that survive high wind"?
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Jennifer RM Nov 12
Replying to @lorenschmidt
I've been thinking about "procedurally generated forests" (a la No Man's Sky) since the aughties ;-) Have you considered savefiles w/ a RNG seed (and compressible "edit" history?) per plant, so you can deterministically re-store MANY plants (from little data) by re-simulation?
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Jennifer RM Nov 11
Replying to @lorenschmidt
Maybe... Internodes structural spans and nodes put out branches AND leaves? Then any "node rule" gives a fractal structure. Then wind and light add 3D stress and rewards, "autopruning" rebalances the fractal? Some rules are likely better than others...
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Jennifer RM Nov 1
Replying to @preinfarction
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Jennifer RM Nov 1
Replying to @eigenrobot
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Jennifer RM Nov 1
I am haunted by... ...the way I have a few questions about the natural history museum.
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Jennifer RM Oct 31
Replying to @literalbanana
Thank you. That was beautiful and tragic on many levels. It makes me wish I was immortal, so that I had the time to watch Twin Peaks and then make a fanfic of season 4 as a kindly rebuttal to Lynch.
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Jennifer RM Oct 28
A plausible root is misanthropy or "anthrophobia" as a fear/hatred of other people in general. Anthrophobes can politically rationalize their hatred many ways, maybe "ecology", maybe "intangibles". Renting vs owning could easily be independent of anthrophobic tendencies.
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