What topic are you comparing it with?
When you specify that, I think the relevant question is: does the topic have an equivalent of a Terminator franchise?
What topic are you comparing it with?
When you specify that, I think the relevant question is: does the topic have an equivalent of a Terminator franchise?
No need to apologize—thank you for your summary and questions.
Though it may not be central to Bostrom’s case for AI risk, I do think economics is a good source of evidence about these things, and economic history is good to be familiar with for assessing such arguments.
No disagreement here.
I’m just trying to make sure I understand—I remember being confused about the Flynn effect and about what Katja asked above.
How does the Flynn effect affect our belief in the hypothesis of accumulation?
It is possible, then, that exposure to complex visual media has produced genuine increases in a significant form of intelligence. This hypothetical form of intelligence might be called “visual analysis.” Tests such as Raven’s may show the largest Flynn gains because they measure visual analysis rather directly; tests of learned content may show the smallest gains because they do not measure visual analysis at all.
Do you think this is a sensible view?
The terms that I singled out while reading were: Backpropagation, Bayesian network, Maximum likelihood, Reinforcement learning.
You could start at a time better suited for Europe.
I was under the impression (after reading the sections) that the argument hinges a lot less on (economic) growth than what might be gleamed from the summary here.
There’s a small chance I might be there—if not, see you next time!
I would be interested, but I’d prefer the day before or so.
Thank you for giving links to papers.
Making lists.
Too bad I missed this.
Somewhat relevant: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2007/05/linear_algebra_done_right.html
I’ve also seen this book described as “one of those texts that feels like a piece of category theory even though it’s not actually about categories”, which is high praise.
The cost here might be someone implementing a technical solution.
Are minor nuisances never worth solving?
I understand. Nevertheless, discussion so far hasn’t gotten anywhere. Perhaps downvoting meetup threads would put some pressure on people involved in meetups to resolve the matter.
As of now, I haven’t downvoted any meetup-related thread.
Is it OK for me to downvote meetup threads if I don’t want to see them?
Thanks for the piece of counter-data!
I might look into the book, but the naming convention is a big turnoff.
I already mentioned what Halmos’ stance was. What I’m more interested in is how is it possible to work without examples.
As a possible failure of rationality (curiosity?) on my part, this week’s topic doesn’t really seem that interesting.