[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

Some thoughts of what might be helpful in that vein:

  • What is a Turing machine? (Described in enough detail that one could, you know, prove theorems.)

  • What is the halting problem?

  • Why is Kolmogorov complexity/algorithmic information content uncomputable?

  • Pursuant to the above, what's up with Solomonoff induction?

  • Why is the lambda calculus not magically super-Turing?

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago

One erratum: the review that goes into how HPMOR's science is bad was by "su3su2u1", not Dan Luu (who just archived it from the original Tumblr).

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago

PolygenX's Chief Science Officer Steven Wolfram's

(double-take)

I think that should be Tobias Wolfram. Per RationalWiki and Hope Not Hate, anyway.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Taking a look at Super-recursive algorithm, and wow...

Examples of super-recursive algorithms include [...] evolutionary computers, which use DNA to produce the value of a function

This reads like early-1990s conference proceedings out of the Santa Fe Institute, as seen through bong water. (There's a very specific kind of weird, which I can best describe as "physicists have just discovered that the subject of information theory exists". Wolfram's A New Kind[-]Of Science was a late-arriving example of it.)

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

progressives’ desire to shift control to the big banks

[citation needed]

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

If I were inclined to be charitable, I'd wonder who he was talking to that honestly thought in terms of "elan vital" and "game balance". Like, take the question "Why is flesh soft and diamond hard?", and ask somebody without a science background. I'd guess that the typical response would go something like, "I'unno, it just is." Or, "I've never thought about it, why?" Or, "Heh heh heh, you said hard". I suspect that Yud is making up a layperson of his own invention, a mythical audience upon whom his Educate spell is perfectly effective. He refuses to admit any challenge to his mental model of how the process of explanation works.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

Qu'est-ce que fuck did I just read?

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

all alignment and no play makes jack a dull boy

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make Barbie.

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago

We're a point-and-laugh-at-TESCREAL-people group.

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