Mindey

First posted on Everything-List on June 2, 2020. Hi Everyone, while bright scientists and imaginative geeks continue to discuss advanced concepts at elusive locations of the Internet -- the remains of UseNet, and esoteric websites, the ideas shared there as plain text, no matter how bright, generally don't make it...

Rationality is about a type of optimality, and optimal states are often found only after multiple steps within a domain of a function explored. There are communities running these processes (e.g., halfbakery.com), and encouraging them through things like humor, that leads to exploration of new extremes, eventually arriving at something...

I find it inconvenient that many AI discussions circle around "agents", “environments” and “goals”. These are non-mathematical words, and by using this vocabulary we are anthropomorphizng natural world's phenomena. While an "agent" may well be a set of interacting processes, that produce emergent phenomena (like volition, cognition, action), it is...