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I think this is the key. There is a kind of flow that is very dreamlike. A dream of a museum that didn't just tell of war or display its artifacts, bu...

Who doesn't love a zombo tale? I loved the action, and the grotesqueries that are required of the genre. And the sense of apocalypse, which to me was ...

Mistakes mistakes? Like the (intentional?) irony. Interestingly, ChatGPT also deliberately makes "mistakes", that is, it chooses words that score less...

I'm afraid this one left me somewhat cold. Maybe it is too simple and unambitious for my taste. At the end I am left wondering why I read a story abou...

While clearly not for everyone, I enjoyed it. What I liked best was the sense of limitless, unbounded creativity, and the transgression of the fairyta...

Fun! While there is little ambiguity what is going on, it is done with a fair amount of cleverness and humor. I imagine these little scenarios intersp...

Hi Bob! At first your post seemed very compelling to me, but now I'm not so sure if you got it right. It isn't clear that a proposition is necessarily...

I need one. Can't get any flow going, every word is a struggle.

This is a fallacy: If Monday, P(Monday-Heads) = P(Monday-Tails) If Tails, P(Monday-Tails) = P(Tuesday-Tails) Therefore, P(Monday-Heads) = P(Monday-Tai...

This is not true. There are three possible awakenings, Monday-Heads, Tuesday-Heads, Tuesday-Tails, and SB's job on awakening is determine the probabil...

Such a program would be equivalent to its desired output if it were able to distinguish it from all the others. That of course would be the hard part....

Wow, that is quite a thread! I've been away for a bit, and missed it. I need to go through the whole thing. Inspiring, you have a real skill in intera...

I abhor those things, they are the sop of my worst abuse.

I was hoping for an actual adventure world that I could explore that somehow incorporates philosophical puzzles, I'll try to coax that out next time, ...

I guess I would have to ask it questions and evaluate the answers, harshly rejecting all of them? Just kidding, I can't seem to help but think of Chat...

It is this conflation that I think is near the core of your misunderstanding. Reification is "unjustifiable imputing of reality" whereas Hypostatizati...

This relies on the intuition of repeating the experiment over and over. If so, then there are unconditionally more tail slices. But the coin is flippe...

No, the question has nothing whatsoever with her mental state. She is being asked, given that she is awakened, what is the probability of heads. If sh...

No, the question is what is the probability SB experiences an awakening with the coin being heads.

You seem to suggest I just arbitrarily whipped up some code and said "hey guys, code! problem solved!" The program calculates the probability a wakeni...

What tradition? The sex/gender distinction doesn't have enough history to have a tradition. Pronouns were and are applied to a conglomerate of what we...

Following this logic, I wrote a python script which calculates the probability of heads given a number of trials. As I expected, the results begin at ...

I don't think the case of Nazis defeats the idea of morality as cooperation strategies. It is a feature of modern life that the scope of morality has ...

This problem is like one of those optical illusions, a drawing that can be interpreted in two ways, but you can only hold one interpretation in your h...

I get the intuition. But no, it doesn't make sense, and it it is a poor analogy to the problem. Here is a much better analogy, that I think is more in...

Oh? Then what specifically is wrong with my reasoning

This is straightforwardly true, but from the perspective of an observer of the experiment. But to answer the problem you must adopt SB's perspective. ...

I have finally solved this thing. I am now 100% convinced 1/3 is correct, and everyone who answered the poll except for me is wrong. There are three p...

How would you respond to this: This formula makes no mention of the possibility of waking up on Tuesday. If we told SB when she woke up, "It is Monday...

Your example has two unknowns, the number and the coin, and so the mental complexity is squared. My little brain is too small for it.

I don't think they do. Extend the numbers out to a ridiculous amount: the sailor flipped 12 coins, and fathers 10000 with the Siren. Would you wager t...

Alter the setup: The sailor had two choices, have sex with a homely fishmaiden of Innsmouth, with whom he could only bear 1 coupling, or visit the Sir...

I think betting is cheating, and is not actually correlated to the probabilities. Bet on heads or tails. If tails, you get to repeat the same bet agai...

But in this setup, he did gain relevant evidence. Prior to the experiment there was a possibility he would not be woken, this has been eliminated.

But now I think we are both cheating. The experiment specifically is conducted once, not as many times as we please. That changes everything. Presumin...

Professor Chomsky, To what extent is American political dysfunction a product of structural features of a voting system which inevitably leads to a tw...

But humans, unique among animals, can conceive of something better. This ability to conceive is also the possibility of realizing it, and is what is t...

This is a direct reflection of man being a cooperative and selfish animal, just as other social animals are. Being purely selfish or purely altruistic...

Both versions conflate the thought of something and its existence. In the first version: 2. It is greater to exist in thought and in actuality than to...

It is a two party state which suffers the ill effects that two party states are prone to. One of these is capture. It is far easier to capture two par...

Computers certainly operate on information. Does a library at night have any information? Do all the books have information, or only the ones currentl...

It sounds like you guys are conflating information and interpretation. If these were the same information could not be interpreted in multiple ways. O...

Imagine an oscilloscope attached to an ethernet cable. Properly tuned, the image it displays will be sensitive to the electrical activity of the cable...

Another fun version I have thought about before: A very simple algorithm outputs every possible combination of RGB values in a 1024x1024 pixel image. ...

The question of "what is computation" and "what is a computer" are different. The latter seems straightforward: a computer is a Turing machine, or som...

Great OP, and I am still grappling with it. I think where you lose me is the notion that computation and causation are somehow equivalent. There seem ...

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But the word is "Phenomenal": 2.perceptible by the senses or through immediate experience. We have immediate experience of internal imaginings as much...

I'm not asking about your eyes, but about your visual experiences.

Apart from internality and accuracy, what is qualitatively different about the song you hear and the song you play in your head? It means the appearan...