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... In popular media, there is often a connection drawn between the advent of awareness in artificial agents and those same agents simultaneously achieving human or superhuman level intelligence. ...
... We find that all three theories specifically relate conscious function to some aspect of domain-general intelligence in humans. ...
... Given this apparent trend, we use the motivating example of mental time travel in humans to propose ways in which insights from each of the three theories may be combined into a unified model. ...
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... It feels like we are living through one of those kind of boring interregnum periods that will get short shrift in history textbooks. Like 1870-1900 in America or 100-150 in the Roman Empire. ...
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... . $1.5 trillion is about 7% of US GDP, and many of the losses falling on residents of other countries 3/ For comparison, post-2006 housing bust wiped out wealth = ~60 percent of US GDP 4/ https://t.co/2lYIqfPSt9 Also, coin mining, although environmentally destructive and a big stress on some national ...
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... stopped saying "transitory", it still seems to believe that much of the inflation we're currently experiencing will fade away without the need to impose a lot of economic pain 2/ One odd thing about this debate is that the actual policy demands of the inflation hawks have been pretty moderate: an end ...
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... But if you compare the US to peer nations this isn't so obvious. https://t.co/hGWTzTUZyN https://t.co/HsqHfSaqxU Canada, the UK, and France all had bigger housing booms than the US. Yet none of them experienced a crash anywhere near as large as ours. ...
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... But that cheap credit hasn’t actually created any real resources, so you end up with increased spending on both capital and consumer goods. As a result, inflation starts to inch up, and central banks are forced to raise interest rates to cool things off. ...
... The period through the end of 2007 arguably fits the austrian model. There was arguably over investment in residential home construction. In 2006 and 2007 the home building industry was contracting while other industries were still growing. But in mid 2008, the situation changed. ...
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... I suspect that with better monetary policy 2006 probably could have been the middle of another 1990s-style boom rather than the end of a brief and weak recovery. ...
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... The foundational idea of the End of History is inherited from Hegel - man's desire for recognition overriding other desires (mainly preservation) is something that transcends humans, something that proves man's freedom. ...
... This is an outdated view that sees humans as isolated individuals rather than members of social groups. This desire for recognition is probably a product of group competition and the recognition is about one's worth to the community in the context of fierce group competition between communities. ...
... The narrative of intragroup fighting for recognition creating the slave and master didn't exist. Without a better understanding of this desire for recognition through the lens of group competition, ideas built on top of it are flaky as well. ...
... For example, we don't know which desire is more prominent: the desire for equal recognition for each member or the desire for the recognition of the community as a whole. In modernity, the further is represented by liberal democracy while the latter by nationalism. ...
... In *End of History,* Fukuyama took one paragraph to dismiss nationalism as an irrational one in contrast with the desire for recognition at the individual level. This distinction, as demonstrated above, is not well-founded. ...
... The argument for liberal democratic being more rational is that it's the only way to reconcile competing desires for individual recognition. This is based on the assumption that individual recognition dominates the projected national recognition. ...
... It's more evident that the majority of a social group is prone to manipulation, be it religion, ideologies, etc while liberal democracy is just one of them to support elected orligarchy. And that is supported by group competition theories. ...
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... History started when human species began to dominate the ecologic environment and started to compete for survival as social groups, it will end when the survival competition between social groups ends. ...
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... Most of the analysis from Fukuyama's end of history would fall apart in a scenario in which state competition no longer exists. ...
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... I.e. when there is only one social group: the human race. Does that mean will can have a more radical democracy? E.g. instead of voting for policies, each person simply submit their prioritization of her desires and needs. ...
... Then the government (human or AI) will simply produce a policy that maximize utility for the entire human population. ...
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... Hegel declared this as the end of the history and went on to claim that liberal societies were free from contradiction and would therefore bring historical dialectic to a close. ...
... My critique: can we claim absolute self-consciousness when we still don't know how evolution history formed our biological nature? Is that something attainable only after theories like EDSC is in man's consciousness? ...
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... The Christian belief of human souls and the original sins was one of the deciding factors of collective behavior in Christendom until the Enlightenment changed those beliefs with updated understanding. ...
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... Most of the analysis from Fukuyama's end of history would fall apart in a scenario in which state competition no longer exists. ...
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... (Morality as manipulation) As a result, from Roman emperor to Crusade, Hitler, Stalin, the whole business of someone representing the moral truth is a history of moral tragedies. ...
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