drnickbone

Recent article in The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/ibm-brain-simulation-compass.html Here is the research report from IBM, with the simple title "10^14": http://www.modha.org/blog/SC12/RJ10502.pdf It's nothing like a real brain simulation, of course, but illustrates that hardware to do this is getting very close. There is likely to be quite a long overhang between...

This discussion article was provoked in part by Yvain's post on Main a few weeks ago, and some of the follow-up comments. EDIT: I've also just noticed that there was a recent sequence rerun on the point about finite iterations. My bad: I simply didn't see the rerun article, as...

A key goal of Less Wrong's "advanced" decision theories (like TDT, UDT and ADT) is that they should out-perform standard decision theories (such as CDT) in contexts where another agent has access to the decider's code, or can otherwise predict the decider's behaviour. In particular, agents who run these theories...

My previous article on problematic problems attracted quite a lot of feedback and comment. One of the questions it posed (2) was whether TDT should do something other than the initial analysis suggests. I've had a couple of ideas on that, partly in response to the comments. I'm posting some...

I recently posted a discussion article on the Doomsday Argument (DA) and Strong Self-Sampling Assumption. See http://lesswrong.com/lw/9im/doomsday_argument_with_strong_selfsampling/ This new post is related to another part of the literature concerning the Doomsday Argument - the Self Indication Assumption or SIA. For those not familiar, the SIA says (roughly) that I would...

Hello everyone; I'm new to the forum, and have been advised to post this in the "discussion" section. Hope this is OK. I've found some references to discussions here on Brandon Carter / John Leslie's "Doomsday Argument" and they seemed well-informed. One thing I've noticed about the argument though (but...