Here I find myself in the middle of an example of how hard it can be to learn mathy things without having gone through years of training. You might say "So, go through years of training." And then I would say "No, that training comes embedded with a way of seeing the world that […]
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Coherent Extrapolated Volition = how the best of us think
Just stumbled upon this while reading the wiki article on Friendly AI. Yudkowsky advances the Coherent Extrapolated Volition (CEV) model. According to him, coherent extrapolated volition is people's choices and the actions people would collectively take if "we knew more, thought faster, were […]
Learning to see the hidden layer in neural nets
No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem. Could be? It definitely is. I've thought about this problem for a long time, ever since it turned up in my private meditations on Cybernetic Intelligence years ago (back when I was inventing ideas like the […]