(via Falling Fast and Falling Free)
“…if you can’t explain how to simulate your theory on a computer, chances are excellent that the reason is that your theory makes no sense!” — Scott Aaronson
Opportunity Gets a View From The Edge
Eclipse by ~A4size-ska on deviantART
Andromeda’s majestic spray of billions of hot stars
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“I don’t believe that classical computers can simulate brain activity. The brain is the most complicated object or machine in the universe. Every adult human brain contains 100 billion neurons, and every neuron is different. How many possibilities for interaction between different neurons are there? We don’t have a full understanding of how a brain works yet, but I cannot see any digital computer ever performing a fine-grained simulation of a human brain.” — Dr. Hongkui Zeng, How complex is a mouse brain?
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“I believe in Probability Theory, the Foundation, the wellspring of knowledge,
I believe in Bayes, Its only Interpretation, our Method.
It was discovered by the power of Induction and given form by the Elder Jaynes.
It suffered from the lack of priors, was complicated, obscure, and forgotten.
It descended into AI winter. In the third millennium it rose again.
It ascended into relevance and is seated at the core of our FAI.
It will be implemented to judge the true and the false.
I believe in the Sequences,
Many Worlds, too slow science,
the solution of metaethics,
the cryopreservation of the brain,
and sanity everlasting.
Phyg.”
— by muflax, There is no Science but Bayes and it is our Method.
