ToothyMaw

I just want everyone to know that I put up a new topic on the new site called Justice is Contextual. I think a lot of people will like it. I'm not sur...

Cool, I got it done. Thanks.

I'm not sure how to register once I get to the new website? Do I have to press sign up or something? edit: I got it, sorry

Okay I see zero such news stories, and as far as I know AGI doesn't exist yet. That being said, everything you write sounds perfectly plausible - or p...

First off, I'm not so sure that AI has to be used in government apart from as a useful tool for bureaucrats to increase efficiency or something. A fin...

I am not referring to constraints in its self-improvement or intellectual growth, but rather whether or not it can effectively develop values misalign...

It differs insofar as it performs the task of constraining AI in ways that only make sense if one is dealing with a superintelligence, really. You cou...

Sorry for not responding sooner. You raise questions related to issues that everyone who is in a position to ponder, should ponder. Being that I am a ...

I'm not totally sure. My initial thought is no, but maybe there is some way of managing the way ANI interacts with human-authored meta rules such that...

It has occurred to me that meta-rules that already exist in a system like the one I describe could lead to something like Dissonance and therefore the...

You are confusing yourself. I'm just saying that goblins and unicorns probably only exist as concepts, although they are familiar enough that we can c...

Nice. I would say so. He might exist under different interpretations in people's minds, but those interpretations come from a pretty much indisputable...

Would you not still be a thing if you could exist in a possible world in which you were cleverer? Are unicorns and goblins not things even though they...

This is my first attempt at resolving this. I would have inserted some mathematical notation if it weren't such a pain. All things that exist are a su...

I just want to be clear: Judaism is not equivalent to Zionism. Zionism is substantially secular and makes normative claims that are not necessarily ti...

Oh, I see. You are referring to how I used religious examples for both tiers of ideology. It doesn't have to be that way; that these people believe in...

Yes, I agree, thus I included that even many consequentialists have use of the concept of intentions even when all that fundamentally matters is conse...

Yes, that mapping works, but the process would be more like modeling your string of emojis after an interpretation that says "Dogs are Cute" - althoug...

@"Nils Loc" basically has it. I am suggesting we use a string that is incontrovertible in meaning (yet meaningful independent of any meaning we might ...

It appears that that is the one possibility I left out, of course. And I doubt I could account for it with the approach I took. Whatever.

Alright. If a brown-eyed islander reasons that it is true that they have neither brown nor blue eyes, and a blue-eyed islander also reasons in paralle...

I'm only considering the reasoning of brown or blue-eyed people about potentially blue-eyed or brown-eyed people. As such, what I'm saying there is th...

Like what? Maybe I can explain it. If you are confused about the discussion of possible considerations/deductions being measured against each other, i...

Is it really that crappy of a solution?

Here’s my solution: From the point of view of any given blue-eyed person on the island they must be either the 101st brown-eyed person, the 100th blue...

I came up with a semi-rigorous way of defining incontrovertibility: if a translation can be modeled by a one-dimensional string or series of strings t...

So, to make it as clear as possible, that means that only an incontrovertible meaning has a 100% chance of being the correct meaning, and every other ...

I suppose the one that is most likely would have to be the one that gets the closest to being incontrovertible. Every meaning imposed on the codex cou...

We could just do rote textual analysis by a reader, I guess. Although, that is hardly feasible given the potential multitudes of valid meanings, so I ...

Like I said in an earlier post:

Where did I say that? I suppose that my method would, ideally, approach creating a single string of meaning if it were applied over and over again, bu...

I see what you are saying, but I'm mostly laying out what conditions would be necessary for an interpretation to be incontrovertible; I'm not saying t...

While I think that this is true, we are talking about imposing an incontrovertible meaning on this particular alien text. That means that out of the i...

By "one-dimensional string of meaning" that I mean a combination of characters that has a function or a meaning insofar as a one-dimensional string of...

The thread isn't really about creating something indecipherable, but that's pretty cool, too.

Right. If we consider avenues of meaning corresponding to one-dimensional strings of information, such as what might unlock a certain combination lock...

It seems to me there must be a kernel of meaning, or perhaps some arbitrary carry-over from the aliens’ actual means of written expression, to the cod...

Are we talking about any interpretation at all? Or specifically one that would comport with what we might expect intelligent aliens (who have decided ...

I mention it because if one were able to be fully transported within one of these intervals (such that identity is invariant or nothing happens in the...

Both of you make really good points, but I'm not sure if the transporter issue is totally resolved by this. Do the two of you think that a shrunken do...

That occurred to me too, actually. Getting bonked on the head with a rock could be substituted for a transporter (for that part of the problem).

Okay, well I think this is different from your claims in the OP. I thought you were claiming that because the continuous measure X doesn't present a c...

I think that while X is a continuous measure, what is left of brain function after being transported doesn't physically function such that a differenc...

So you don't think the existence of free will would matter if it were manifested by a soul? Really? Can a proponent of free will really ever point to ...

Okay, then how would a body behave in the absence of this freely choosing soul? Is there a single pre-determined route we each would take through real...

That's really interesting, and I think you might be right. But let's say we have souls separate from the brain (a possibility suggested in the OP) tha...

Welcome to the forum, by the way.

It seems to me the only way immaterial souls could be confirmed to exist for certain is if a revealed God has bequeathed us with them. Otherwise, we w...

Given that we know the Turing Test, for example, only measures a subset of both human and intelligent behavior, I don't think anyone (here) is saying ...

The example of attempting to prevent a sickness from spreading by decapitating kittens, while perhaps valid with respect to the proposition that all k...