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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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... 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? ...
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... Human brains have no biological apparatus for logic thinking (or, more broadly speaking, system 2 thinking). This is in contrast with the fact that human language faculties are more likely supported by prewired circuitries. ...
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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. ...
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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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... All human languages are logical in the sense that the meaning of linguistic expressions corresponding to disjunction (e.g. English *or*, Chinese *huozhe,* Japanese *ka*) conform to the meaning of the logical operator in classical logic, inclusive- *or*. ...
... It is highly implausible, we argue, that children acquire the (logical) meaning of disjunction by observing how adults use disjunction. [https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0017.2009.01380.x](https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0017.2009.01380.x) ...
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... Social intelligence is the driving evolutionary pressure responsible for the development of human intelligence ...
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... Social interaction was the main evolutionary drive for human intelligence. In other words, it will probably take human-level intelligence to effectively solve the social interactions on the roads. ...
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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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... There's a widespread view in inflation hawk circles that the BLS came under political pressure (in the 1990s and maybe before) to modify the CPI to reduced the measured inflation rate and hence reduce how much the government would have to pay in Social Security benefits. ...
... 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. ...
... So if Newt Gingrich forced the BLS to lower the CPI as a backdoor way of cutting Social Security payments, did he force the BEA to do the same thing so it wouldn't look suspicious? ...
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... One of the worst aspects of current politics is the bipartisan consensus that America kind of sucks. On the left you have the relentless negativity of woke politics. On the right you have the relentless negativity of Trumpism. ...
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... In Europe for example. https://t.co/f6ov0RhQB1 This means we can't blame inflation entirely on Congress or the Fed. If we'd gotten less stimulus, strong demand from other countries would still be making this stuff more expensive. The same is true of gasoline, which is also shooting up in price. ...
... It takes a year or two to spin up the capacity, but it's not rocket science. These are also largely global industries, so they won't be constrained by US labor supply. ...
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... Meaning that an economy has a long run potential level of output that it will return to regardless of what policy the central bank pursues. This makes no sense to me. ...
... https://t.co/oaOKpGkvvd I wonder if what happened was that economists originally meant “money is more neutral in the long run than Keynesians thought in the 1960s” and over time that context has been forgotten. I can also believe that money is more long-run neutral in high inflation environments. ...
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... Many aspects of government are coasting along, overseen by agencies created between 1932 and 1972 but whose enabling legislation is increasingly out of date. ...
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