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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. ...
... In this work, we explore the validity and potential application of this seemingly intuitive link between consciousness and 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. ...
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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. ...
... 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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... As a result, inflation starts to inch up, and central banks are forced to raise interest rates to cool things off. So far this is an entirely conventional account of how business cycles work. But now things get weird. ...
... In 2006 and 2007 the home building industry was contracting while other industries were still growing. But in mid 2008, the situation changed. ...
... Instead of re-allocating workers and other resources from home building to other sectors, you suddenly had almost every industry laying off workers—even ones that were not capital intensive and did not see strong growth in the 2000s. ...
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... Very unlike the 2000s bubble 1/ In the Naughties, prices soared in places like SF and LA with constrained housing supply, but not in sprawling metros where building more homes was relatively easy 2/ https://t.co/lgRjHUXnj2 Now even sprawling metros and smaller cities are seeing huge price runups 3/ ...
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... Tight money put downward pressure on home prices throughout the Eurozone, but the effect was biggest for countries like Spain and Italy whose economies were otherwise most negatively affected by ECB policies. ...
... Oops I linked to the wrong article at the top of this thread. See more charts that explain the economy here. https://t.co/gtVBWwesGH ...
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... You don't need to go to CPT to argue that "deep down" there is no such thing as causality. Newtonian mechanics is also governed by algebraic equalities, so it is symmetric, telling us that f=ma is as valid as a=f/m. ...
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... I have no idea. https://t.co/kFojw7CxsT This chart debunks the widely-held belief that housing construction was out of control in 2005. Housing production was actually pretty normal! ...
... What was exceptional was the deep post-2007 housing bust—driven I think by the mistaken belief there had been a big housing bubble. https://t.co/MEOt8eRT7J This chart helps to illustrate why home prices have risen so much in the last few years: the sticker price is at a record high, low interest rates ...
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... As EDSC predicted, there is adaptive pressure on successful manipulation within a social group. Thus there is adaptive pressure for religious belief or spirituality. ...
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... The WWW connections work by pulling, one item can pull another one by having a hyperlink to it. But such a link is one-way: the reader of the linking item can easily go to the linked one but not the other way around. The mind net aim to make such links bi-directional. ...
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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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... Wars are unavoidable when there are states and competition between them. But without state competition, there is no guarantee that a unified global liberalism democracy community won't fall into a totalitarian regime. ...
... 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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... pointed out by the paper, can have a great impact if widely understood by the general public > though their effect on human self-understanding and self-images, will eventually assist us in dealing with not only the traumas of conflicts between individuals and small groups but our bizarre international competitions ...
... theory [Dealing with social circumstances was the real challenge in human evolution](https://themind.net/references/gcEc3uCVR_ePqgoY_DPriA) [Why humans continue to live in groups](https://themind.net/references/GjY_8sBoS4CFHn23oOoz9g) Recent research on [Human large-scale cooperation as a product of competition ...
... between cultural groups](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14416-8) The [inclusive fitness theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusive_fitness) provides the math formula regarding social behavior as a product of group selection. ...
... The multilevel selection theory provides a specific model for how group competition can be a selection force for gene evolution. ...
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... These notes can help clarify where the connection lies between the two. ...
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... Tom's thinking process and decision-making barely come into his consciousness, but the actual process can be organized into observation, hypothesis, and prediction. When he entered the room, he made the observation that something looks like a chair in the room. ...
... Then there is the hypothesis that the thing **is** a chair. Finally, he made the prediction that if he sits on it, he will be supported. ...
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