Re: [FRIAM] A pretty cellular automata video

I frankly can't imagine our "species" (Homo faber) surviving our own short sightedness long enough to make it to posthumanism. I suspect that Homo sapiens will survive the environmental apocalypse to come, but that the majority of our highly interdependent society will quickly fall apart. IMHO. On

[FRIAM] adversarial networks

While it can be tempting to read articles like this as: Top Republicans rub shoulders with extremists in secretive rightwing group, leak reveals https://ddosecrets.substack.com/p/epikfail-anonymous-gab-hacktivism an invocation of the long-term and widespread planning and execution of organizati

Re: [FRIAM] "epistemic status"

Interesting. Part of the "rationality community" that I find troubling is their tendency to *game* everything, including things like charity (Effective Altruism). But the good news is that your attempt to game this test is what the test *wants* you to do, i.e. play around with your tacit binding

Re: [FRIAM] the autodidactic universe

Interesting. It sounds a bit like Deutsche's Fabric of Reality. Re whether it had been posted before, there are hints of it in the Wired article I posted back on the 13th, copied below. On 9/26/21 11:04 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.03902.pdf

Re: [FRIAM] A pretty cellular automata video

I’ve got a big bin of old hard drives that I dig through and find this or that from time to time. I mostly don’t need any of it. I imagine it will be that way too for transhuman upgrades. Once there are better codes and better hardware, the old ways just seem so unnecessary. I know som

Re: [FRIAM] A pretty cellular automata video

We do have a robotic vacuum who we have personified somewhat...   the Cat ignores it, the Dog was constantly needing to nip at it, but backed off anytime it changed course when it was near her.   It is far from Rosie (Jetsons).  But I suppose I might upgrade to Astro. A friend made the observation

Re: [FRIAM] A pretty cellular automata video

In Siobhan Roberts' biography of Conway she summarizes how it took months (or perhaps years) to work through different sets of rules for the game of life. The goal was to find ones that produced Interesting behavior. This was done by his group, and by hand as computers weren't readily available. Y

[FRIAM] Sleep

Last night I went to check on my nine year old grandson before I went to sleep. He was upside down and sideways. I decided to cover him up but he seemed to wake up. Then he acted terrified of me and asked me to go away. This morning, seven hours later, he crawled into bed with me and seemed very