If Google trusts their AI that much, I hope they make the precognitive step of replacing their CEO with an AI. Other companies will and survive, whereas the Google AI will never recorrect itself and subsidize their stock at an exponential level.
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What do people think of BayesDB being used for the same thing?:
"BayesDB, which is open source and in use by organizations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and JPMorgan, lets users who lack statistics training understand the probable implications of data by writing queries in a simple, SQL-like language."[0]
Check out BayesDB if you have not already[1]!
[0]: https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/vikash-mansinghka-10-06-20... [1]: http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/software/bayesdb/
I apologize all the time out loud. For my whole life, I have almost never apologized in my head. I like apologizing out loud when I am wrong or have insulted, because I see it as a chance at righting a wrong. But until recently I have never apologized in my head. Not because I don't like doing it, but because of some sort of mental block that affects my ability to form an inner monologue.
An 'inner universe' empty of thought and apologies is a huge personal liability. Trust me.
Just google what I quoted and have some imagination.
[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Thinking-Learning-Refactor-...
0). The Roman empire, despite being so large and literate, has almost no financial books that we read today. Why did a Roman not invent "the invisible hand"?
1). How on earth did the Romans not invent steampower?
2). Is the most common multiverse government a Roman one?
“Look at me, I am CIA and measure intelligence by the ability to trick people and I click on the wrong ‘X’ button when closing an advertisement, which means I am tricked by javascript libraries”.
Yet the next pick is a square next to the hit. Huh?
Abandoned mine shaft, subway systems, unused service routes, and deserted mine shafts
Many have no known purpose at all.
[0]: https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/tree/master/accel/ane
Personally, something that would really help me, is that I make very irrational stupid decisions and waste time. I would like to create some piece of software that prevents that. Something that prompts me, with messages like "What should you be doing?" or helps me make decisions.
Also, I would like it if it presented news articles that are not obviously biased, and then you have a quiz that asks questions about if you know what the bias was, or if the conclusion of the article was correct.
Real time guarantee: When a hook for an event is called it transfers all computation to that call within a time limit predictably and deterministically
Please correct me if I am wrong.
The nature of reality has been a central concern of philosophy and the social sciences, but since the proliferation of social media, psychological operations have taken on greater visibility and significance in political action. ‘Fake news’ and micro-targeted and deceptive advertising in elections and votes has brought the tenuous character of political reality to the fore. The affordances of the Internet, World Wide Web and social media have enabled users to be mobilised to varying degrees of awareness for propaganda and disinformation campaigns both as producers and spreaders of content and as generators of data for profiling and targeting. This article will argue that social media platforms and the broader political economy of the Internet create the possibilities for online interactions and targeting which enable form of political intervention focused on the destabilisation of perceptions of reality and recruit users in the construction of new politically useful realities.
--- What does this quote mean: "Questions are a burden to others; answers, a prison for oneself"? ---
It means that there is knowledge which cannot be shared. Questions are a burden, because others cannot tell you the truth, and upon understanding the truth you realize you cannot tell anyone. In my mind, it is a very astute and oblique way of referencing a world-wide conspiracy.
In “The Prisoner Puzzle” Patrick Mcgoohan states that he believes that technology is advancing faster than humanity can. I originally thought this was a luddite view, and confused me quite deeply, as I believe in creating a true strong AI, even if it sees us darkly. But then I realized he was referencing technology being used to manipulate one another, with which I agree completely.
I live in the moment in the worst way possible as well. I am not looking looking at myself critically either. I do believe active rumination of conversations, events and what you learn is incredibly important, but for me I cannot do it whatsoever. Recalling a conversation in detail is almost impossible, it is like my brain is there to just hear specific things I can act on, such as "Jira ticket". I suffer from aphantasia as well as you. I think media, entertainment and browsing the internet has become a substitute for thinking, as it is certainly true for me. I do not listen or read critically. To me, that means constantly asking yourself what that person is really trying to say, what are they trying to lead you to believe, what assumptions are they making, and most importantly why they are saying it. I understand critical thinking and listening can be done, but I am just so passive in my thinking. I am definitely a digital addict as well, and I find myself going to ycombinator and reddit without any conscious thoughts, it is just a motorized habit.
I have not thought of doing daily attempts at introspection. I remember reading about how for some people their nightly habit was getting in bed and replaying the days events, and I had never thought of that until I read it. Usually I just zone out as much as possible trying to fall asleep immediately. I am a strong believer as you are that the brain is a muscle, and that what you do not practice you do not better in, at least when it comes to recollecting. I remember reading about how people revisited memories that made them happy, and I never do that. It makes me feel terrible to think how I could have been focusing on good memories, instead of seeming to have some primordial fear of ever accessing my autobiographical memory.
I know what you mean when it comes to remembering things people tell you. Someone I know used to say that if you forget it means you do not care, and it just made me feel horrible all the time. I have forgotten about many important things that I care about, and it pains me deeply.
I hope you find out your own solution to the issue.
I think that my issue is not my brain, but my mind. Of what little I know of the brain, I am a strong believer in the importance of the environment and 'neurons that fire together wire together'. Which leads me to the belief that normal people must spend a lot of time replaying events after they happened in their mind, which is something I cannot do. Can I remember I met Bob and we talked? Yes. Can I remember any details of what we talked about? No. I cannot replay a conversation in my head whatsoever. If you and I talked about programming, I would forget everything you said but might remember you mentioned a cool library, but I will forget its name.
I have to admit, I just get depressed when I start to take notes. I feel like these are basic things I am supposed to remember, and I tell myself I can remember them, and I should, and I just need to put the effort in. If I have a meeting, I take bullet point notes because I cannot write quickly, and after getting in front of a computer I try to recreate as much as I can from the bullet points. If my boss tells me to do something, I have to hope it is in written communication so I can refer back to it completely. I am basically making every excuse to not take the small steps like proper note-taking and doing Anki to stay sharp and generally just do not wish to think about myself.
When I do take notes, I notice I have a deep seated fear to read them again. Something about reading my own writing revolts me.