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Notes | Tutorial 13

Date: 2020-07-13

Tutorial 13

the choice

relating to it’s not luck

re complexity:

brainstorm -> cause effect find causes, maybe intermediaries -> find nexus in tree

yes/no (12m)

1595 - variety of things predatings BoI

rejecting gradations of certainty 2016

1589

1581 - epist without weights

fi - discussions and how to take non-responses (15m)

dangerous to presume low error rate in non-replied posts

  • why no reply diff question to OP
  • self-reply 3+ days

pick a single topic and discuss to conclusion

if getting stuck:

  • can ask for suggestions
  • pausing discussion - problem is not following through, easy to start new discussions

grammar (23m)

  • keep practice up
  • peikoff course has homework exercises
  • curi gumroad grammar course

text analysis (28m)

Artificial intelligence is an existence proof of one of the great ideas in human history: that the abstract realm of knowledge, reason, and purpose does not consist of an élan vital or immaterial soul or miraculous powers of neural tissue.

AI is of a great idea: the non-supernatural mind.

[The idea of the existence of AGI proves the mind is [not wholly?] supernatural [but doesn’t exclude it]]

Rather, it can be linked to the physical realm of animals and machines via the concepts of information, computation, and control.

it: candidate:

  • AI
  • !! existence proof
  • !! one of the great ideas in human history [that the abstract realm of knowledge, reason, and purpose [does not consist of]]
  • the abstract realm of knowledge, reason, and purpose

[to some degree AGI is based in physical realm: info systems / computations.] [to some degree is based in physical realm: info systems / computations.]

Knowledge can be explained as patterns in matter or energy that stand in systematic relations with states of the world, with mathematical and logical truths, and with one another.

{Knowledge can be } {[and those patterns] stand , , }.

Knowledge can be explained as patterns Those patterns are of matter or energy Those patterns stand in systematic relations with: states of the world Those patterns stand in systematic relations with: mathematical and logical truths Those patterns stand in systematic relations with: one another.

[knowledge [is] patterns. those patterns stand: * in relations to states of world * with truths * with one another]

knowledge:

  • instantiation in reality / physics
  • relationships to:
    • states of the world
    • maths + logic
    • consistent with “one another” (referring to patterns?)

(grammar tree up to 88 minutes)

returning to paragraph (93 min)

Reasoning can be explained as transformations of that knowledge by physical operations that are designed to preserve those relations.

Purpose can be explained as the control of operations to effect changes in the world, guided by discrepancies between its current state and a goal state.

Purpose is about making or preventing changes to the world based on our ideas and goals.

Naturally evolved brains are just the most familiar systems that achieve intelligence through information, computation, and control.

  • are there artificially evolved brains

Humanly designed systems that achieve intelligence vindicate the notion that information processing is sufficient to explain it—the notion that the late Jerry Fodor dubbed the computational theory of mind.

from stephen pinker’s article

  • Possible Minds

discussion structures 89min

  • estimate of discussion structure
    • both ppl estimate complexity of discussion

ET’s email 110 min

  • philosophy who needs it : ctrl-f elephant; ppl who write like pinker
    • fancy ideas - self blame when they don’t understand

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