In respect to "why does this sky diver fall down?" I feel like "there is a universal law such that... and as you can see, this is just one such exampl...
I think most computation is unobserved though. Is it enough to see the final output of a computational process? Suppose I run a nightly data job for a...
I'll be honest, I couldn't totally follow this. I would caution against any model where time "flows." Time is the dimension in which change occurs. Wi...
Is there anything in a mindless universe? Or anything we can say about one? By definition, no one will ever observe such a thing. Given a mindless uni...
It does. And this is the main problem I have with current abstract conceptions of computation, this work is largely ignored. To be sure, it shows up i...
I think the miscommunication here is that you are thinking of conscious computation, thinking about adding figures together. I was referring to how ne...
Here is a demonstration of the problem I should have led with. Suppose we have a document 150 pages long. Each page contains either just blank spaces ...
I am now seeing that was not a good example. The quantities you perceive are irrelevant. I referenced cognition because the most popular models of how...
I suppose the arbitrary system boundary problem and semiotic circle problem both are akin to the concept of levels of abstraction in computer science....
The easiest way to conceptualize how rocks act as computers is to think of them modeling something simple, like a single logic gate. In terms of group...
This is where I see the "no true Scotsman," 20/20 hindsight problem coming in. It's easy to say now that all sorts of prior norms were irrational. How...
Do you mean include rules about human sacrifice and slavery? If you really thought human sacrifice meant the difference between famine and a good harv...
True, but is there such thing as computation that goes wrong in the abstract sense? Can the square root of 75 ever not be 8 2/3rds + a set of trailing...
Yeah, I only meant to contrast here. The problem with the "objective" frame is that human reasoning is deeply embed in culture. Think about therapy ai...
Computational models of neuroscience appear to be the standard model today. I would argue that computation itself precludes reduction. Computation inv...
I am a fan of Deutsch but I have never understood how his theory of quantum computation works with MWI. I get that MWI is observably indistinguishable...
Right. The dominant schema used for this issue has been to posit two distinct modes of being, the subjective and objective. The subjective is said to ...
Like I said, this is thinking of it psychologically. My 11 month old son experiences sensation, he does not have any concept of being as such. Such a ...
AI doesn't need to fire off nuclear weapons to be extremely disruptive. It simply has to be able to do a variety of middle class jobs or allow those j...
I think there might be some overthinking in this thread. In English it is common to talk about anything in the external world as "objects," or "system...
I prefer Hegel's definition in the Philosophy of Right. For Hegel, morality is the abstract understanding of "the good," held by rational subjects. Mo...
Why would that matter? Would consciousness being more essential make more sense if we lived a different way? I can see the argument for consciousness ...
As to the conservation of information: If I have perfect information about a billiard table and can predict an upcoming shot, it does not follow that ...
Western countries didn't give Ukraine tens of billions in aid before Russia invaded because they did not think Russia would actually invade, how Ukrai...
Why would countries have sent Ukraine weaponry back in 2008? It had a pro-Russian government through 2014, and there was a path towards soft "annexati...
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/P/B07R46CXQM.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SX500_.jpg Oh, and I'm definitely not an eternalist. I was almost won over by the sheer ...
I don't have a developed ontology. I feel like I'm doomed to remain in this state. I recall when I first got more interested in the topic, and read th...
You might be interested to look at historical analyses of US Lend Lease aid to the UK, and later the USSR. The aid was critical, more so to the UK, ev...
Exactly. Depending on how one conceives of God, God could be physical. For example, God as the self-perceiving, omniscient universe experiencing itsel...
Funny, I've seen the argument that even real numbers may need to be excluded from QM. The first paper I recall with this argument was Paul Davies', "U...
Another strawman. They aren't fighting a war to improve their press freedom index, they are fighting because Russia, a state that perpetrated a massiv...
If either Russia or Ukraine's public estimates of each other's losses were reflective of reality, we'd see a lot fewer functional units able to engage...
So, it seems like some of the videos of people complaining about poor treatment, lack of supplies, living outside, etc. are genuine. The Russian MoD h...
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1577752565839806472 There are others of these. Conscripts complaining of being given no training, no equipmen...
IDK, it seems impossible to sell that as a war aim now. What is Putin going to say? "We had to do this to stop Ukraine from joining NATO. So this is a...
You have a point. That's why I mentioned economic profits, which include implicit costs, not just what goes on the balance sheet. A statement of net p...
Bad weekend for Russia. More videos of poor outdoor living conditions for conscripts and accelerating losses on both fronts. After the fall of Lyman, ...
You probably have to define profits here. Do we mean accounting profits (i.e. recorded costs are less than price) or economic profits (i.e. the firm i...
The closest thing I can think of are "ontological commitments," in metaphysics. It's normally along the lines of "don't go down X road of accepting Y,...
The 20th Gaurds Combined Arms Army was there, with an additional battalion group of Russians, so a fairly substantial concentration, but it's unclear ...
It's fine. They made surrender punishable by 10 years in prison and Putin gave a no retreat order, how can they lose? Plus, the calvary is on its way....
Satalite imagery shows than organizing columns, but the road out is covered by Ukrainian artillery and they may have had time to move forces in for an...
Hell, they don't even have to dig that hard. The British MOD regularly posts conflict updates that point out poor Russian command decisions, as does I...
This is a strawman. You don't need to assume specific character traits to get insights into morale and discipline. It's an emergent phenomenon, and hi...
Russia's military spending is very high compared to the size of its economy (about the same as Spain). It's very low compared to the opponents it says...
Impossible to say. The collapse of the Kyiv and Sumny axes occured before most heavy equipment arrived and before Ukraine's summer's shortages of Sovi...
Yeah, the Russian milblogger sphere seems to suggest that Lyman is essentially encircled. It seems for now that there is a substantial force caught in...
https://preview.redd.it/mtwtamct1t821.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=e6e7fcdf847b7c70881dbafc6e5e49b19fd3da88 The M1 is also 25% heavier than th...
Because Russian arms manufacturers are incompetent and tests likely get rigged. There is plenty of other evidence for this. Putin is pounding the tabl...
lol, it isn't hidden, there are tons of videos of tanks hurling their turrets due to cook off. There was also plenty of commentary from before the war...
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