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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 do so by examining the cognitive abilities associated with three contemporary theories of conscious function: Global Workspace Theory (GWT), Information Generation Theory (IGT), and Attention Schema Theory (AST). ...
... We find that all three theories specifically relate conscious function to some aspect of domain-general intelligence in humans. ...
... With this insight, we turn to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and find that, while still far from demonstrating general intelligence, many state-of-the-art deep learning methods have begun to incorporate key aspects of each of the three functional theories. ...
... 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. ...
... We believe that doing so can enable the development of artificial agents which are not only more generally intelligent but are also consistent with multiple current theories of conscious function. ...
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... Here it is. https://t.co/x4dR7KFUd5 https://t.co/Ca274C7UWi tldr: Full Stack Economics is fully independent and self-financed. We have no outside donors or investors. The vast majority of our (still modest) revenue comes from subscribers. ...
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... People who graduate from college during a recession have lower wages a decade later. https://t.co/y3JaNHffTX During recessions governments and businesses often cut back on R&D. ...
... I can also believe that money is more long-run neutral in high inflation environments. ...
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... Over the years I’ve tried several times to find a version of Austrian business cycle theory I found plausible and I’ve always come away scratching my head. Thread… Here’s my basic understanding of the model: the economy has some industries that are capital intensive and others that are not. ...
... In the Austrian theory, a recession is a process of resource re-allocation from capital-intensive to capital-light industries. Society needs to produce fewer factories and machine tools and more beer and pairs of pants (or whatever). ...
... In the Austrian theory, it’s important that central banks don’t interrupt this process by pushing interest rates back down to unnaturally low levels, because that interferes with this necessary re-allocation process. Ok so let’s think about 2006 to 2009. ...
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... An interesting challenge for this theory is that the government has two inflation indices, the CPI (calculated by the BLS) and the PCE price index (calculated by the BEA). The CPI, the one used for adjusting Social Security benefits, tends to come in higher than the PCE index. ...
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... When I share this image people sometimes suggest I'm cherry picking, since other major economies don't look like the ones for the UK, Canada and France here. ...
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... Traits like ultra-altruism, large-scale cooperation, longing for belonging to a group, and intergroup aggression are hard to explain through individual gene selection alone. ...
... In comparison, Darwinian group selection (direct gene selection at the group level) has too many contingencies and, thus, is much less probable as the main selection force for these traits. ...
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... For most people, does a new understanding of human nature actually change our behaviors? E.g. We came to understand that evolution made us care more about our own children than our neighbors'. Will that understanding change our behavior? ...
... What if we come to understand that evolution made us prone to hate people from outside groups? What does history tell us about this? ...
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... With a secular understanding of where the human species came from, humans became more accepting of human nature with religion fading further to the back seat. ...
... For example, sex was no longer deemed a sin, self pursuits of pleasure (without negatively affecting anyone else) are all natural and nothing immoral. ...
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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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... As long as social groups still compete against each other, the political structure of those groups has to serve the function of competition. The so-called liberalism democracy as of now is still more like an oligarchy republic (as envisioned by the founding father). ...
... Will it morph into something different when social group competition completely disappears? I.e. when there is only one social group: the human race. Does that mean will can have a more radical democracy? ...
... Then the government (human or AI) will simply produce a policy that maximize utility for the entire human population. ...
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... 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? ...
... As for "liberal societies free from contradiction", is the universal equality and the need for struggling in social group competition a contradiction? ...
... A liberal society can't just focus on its own principles of equal rights, it still has to serve another survival function: to compete with other social groups, liberal or not. Isn't that a contradiction? ...
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... GitHub copilot is promising, but it's not human-level yet. It might be possible for Self-driving to use LLMs as foundations to build models that can predict the social behavior of humans on the street. ...
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... Inter-group aggression as a cultural meme has an advantage in culture group selection. Then, in gene-culture coevolution, this culture meme promotes biological tendencies for inter-group aggression in individual members. ...
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