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17 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Interesting conjecture, aligns with one of my theories. join.substack.com/p/is-this-the-…
Specifically this one: medium.com/intuitionmachi…
Where I actually differ from the idea is on how it related to biological cognition. Yes, memory is indeed digital in origin (they use the word numbers which is terrible!). But brain cognition isn't like conventional software, it's more like a collective economic model.
I also agree that the cerebellum is key to cognition. But I suspect it has more to do with constraint satisfaction than actual memory.

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Even in vaccine development, the manufacturer had to make a decision on how many shots, the dosage amount, and the storage requirements. These were unknown at the time prior to testing.
Pfizer/BioNTech took the conservative route by (1) extreme low temp storage (2) two shots and (3) higher dosage. They got deployed first. But clearly, deployment was more expensive than the alternatives.
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The black box of how everything you interact with is going to become exponentially opaque. That is why people are unable to properly reason about causality and instead fall into conspiracy theories that are more intuitive than the real explanation!
Without years of studying how things work, one cannot understand the reality that humans have invented. It is also very different having grown up in the development of technology. You actually experience and have time to digest how technologies emerge.
But how does it feel to be someone where the technology was invented before you were born. It is kind of like how people who study biology. You don't have a damn clue of how it even works!
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The developments in science are so cool that they can only lead to more young people interested in careers in science. Unfortunately, as a society, we have to back up this ambition with funding so they can make a decent living in their vocation.
I wish I could do science full time. It is absolutely true that to make real progress, people have to be doing science full time. Most scientists are encumbered with having to do a ton of administrivia.
To do science well you have to be unencumbered. Not just from the bureaucracy but also from the groupthink that pervades most institutions and fields. Unfortunately only a few are financially wealthy enough to do this.
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I guess when you see this, then you have to finally throw away any notion of glory in fighting ground battles. It's going to be a terrible situation for any human being to be involved in.
The whole mystique of guns and wearing body armor isn't going to be compelling if you are against automation that looks entirely different from humans. It reveals that going to battle is like volunteering to go in. a meat grinder.
The only way humans will voluntarily shy away from war is when they become aware of the horrors of war. In earlier times, everyone was more gung ho because they could not imagine how dehumanizing it actually is.
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The Hard Problem of Consciousness only is relevant for a specific selection of metaphysics. If you chose the metaphysics that approximates reality best, then the problem just doesn't exist.
Selecting a metaphysics makes explicit how reality is (i.e. ontology) and how beings perceive reality (i.e. epistemology). If you skip this step then you can easily fall victim to assumptions you are not aware of.
There are thinkers that have dismissed the hard problem of consciousness. This is a consequence of operating with a different frame of reference (metaphysics) than those who believe in the importance of the hard problem.
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Reminder to self: I'm a person of color, therefore, I should buy a dashcam for my car.
BTW, what kind of dashcam records also the inside of a car?
It turns out that dashcams are popular in many countries so that you can claim insurance. I guess we'll need it in the US too. You never know when you get pulled over for a minor infraction and god forbid your skin isn't the right color!
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