I write down random thoughts I have, mostly for myself but if anyone is interested also for them.
- What is the unit of utility?
- One weird implication of computational consciousness
- When an AI would convince me that it is self-aware
- What are emotions?
- Qualia probably doesn't require that much intelligence or self-awareness
- Do we live in a simulation?
- What is reality?
- The basics: epistemics, ontology, meta ethics, utilitarianism
- How crazy information flow between humans changed
- Different metaphors to describe our universe
- Arbitrary boundaries of definitions in a fluid world give a wrong impression of discrete things
- longtermism - if we assume there is a minimal chance x of everything dying per year, then we should use
(1-x)^tas a discount factor in our utility function, exactly how it is done in reinforcement learning. Therefore, future utility is likely not as vast. - utilitarianism: is the ethics with the least arbitrary assumptions - how would you act if you would experience the universe from the perspective of everyone and everything one after the other
- non-discrete computations - can we say the universe is computational if time is continous? Can we define a computational model for non-discrete inputs, outputs and states?
- turing machine has a transition function that computes a sequence of discrete states. We want a transition function that computes states at non-discrete points in time, and therefore need to define the transition as state change wrt to the state index
t. The transition function would be a differential equation
- turing machine has a transition function that computes a sequence of discrete states. We want a transition function that computes states at non-discrete points in time, and therefore need to define the transition as state change wrt to the state index
- entropy
- the 'what is consciousness' miro board
- https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html
- https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=1951
- everything by Michael Levin