Comment by TKoL on How can a fundamentally random process follow a...
@Syed it's not obvious to me that all the coins tossed in a deterministic universe will have any more reliable of a probability distribution than coins that are fundamentally random.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Name for the logical fallacy of asking for unreasonable...
The fallacy of having a really high standard of evidence for beliefs you don't like, while requiring much less evidence for beliefs you hold, is common, probably common enough that we've all done it at...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Would mind-reading technology finally solve the problem of...
No, it would leave us exactly the same. Besides, we already can do rudimentary mind reading.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Can a point particle exist, without any kind of relation...
The word 'point' itself is a reference to space.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on How do you prove (A ∧ C) ∨ (A ∧ (B → C)) , B ⊢ C ∨ D?
@ScottRowe all logical proofs reduce to tautologies.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What substances are being proposed to be used as substrate...
@JoWehler arguably, yes. Substrate indepdence of emergent phenomenon is definitely a philosophically relevant topic. The idea that one can simulate the building blocks of a brain, and the implications...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on If the laws of physics were axioms, would the existence of...
He's saying that potentially a chicken is an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, and as such has some kind of a priori truthiness to it.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Evolution and Popperian falsifiability
what did he mean by "not strictly universally true"? did he clarify that? did he provide examples?
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Why is pattern recognition not racism?
I think you're asking some very different questions. Questions about what is racist and why are very different from questions about why ai designers don't understand all of the internals of their ais.
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