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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. ...
... 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. ...
... 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. ...
... We've also made a small amount syndicating content to @Slate Prior to launching Full Stack Economics, I did some media consulting work for @shortwave, an email startup run by my brother, and earned $2,400. I offered to do this work for free but he said it was better to pay for legal reasons. ...
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... A lot of people think that the size of the American housing "bubble" in 2005 made a housing crash inevitable. 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. ...
... But my claim wasn't that housing booms are never followed by crashes, only that it's far from inevitable. I also think this chart is consistent with the explanation I prefer—that causation mostly runs from bad macroeconomic policy to a housing crash, rather than the other way around. ...
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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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... 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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... 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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... I don’t see why anyone would consider this kind of mass unemployment necessary or how it set us up for stronger growth later. ...
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... The connection from art appreciation to scenario-building to social skills to social competition is a bit too remote to establish selection pressure. ...
... Another possibly more direct link between art appreciation and social competition might be that the appreciation of art is an anchor for developing a common appreciation of abstract things and serves as a foundation for stronger social coherence such as religion which is also about common beliefs of ...
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... If the self-understanding of our genetically programmed tendency to consume sugar and fat can help us manage those desires (with the help of technologies), then the self-understanding of our genetically programmed tendency for solidarity with "us" and adversary against "them" can help us manage that ...
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... Because this self-supervised learning process mimics the brain's learning mechanism: make predictions and learn from prediction errors. ...
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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? ...
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... Group conversations, online communities, and coffee shop conversations have been great for exchanging ideas, but these forms usually lack organization and structure. ...
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