Though I’m slowly posting my way through the Reading Yudkowsky series, I finished writing these posts a long time ago. So, having already read through all of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s posts on Less Wrong, what are my favorites among all his posts? Here you go:
- Twelve Virtues of Rationality
- How an Algorithm Feels from the Inside
- Outside the Laboratory
- Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions
- Where to Draw the Boundary?
- The Dilemma: Science or Bayes?
- Reductionism
- Occam’s Razor
- Absence of Evidence is Evidence of Absence
- The Hidden Complexity of Wishes
- Lost Purposes
- Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom
- Excluding the Supernatural
- Crisis of Faith
- 31 Laws of Fun
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How an Algorithm Feels from the Inside
Do algorithms have qualia?
Reginald Selkirk(Quote)
Reginald,
from what I understood Yudkowsky talks about the way an algorithm that our neurons are using provides us with an inner feeling (an intuition).
Taranu(Quote)
Excellent. Bookmarked.
Zeb(Quote)
Do I have these spellings correct?;
“Yudkowskyism”
“Yudkowskyian”
Those don’t exact roll off the tongue, so I’ll just say that you’re his #1 fan.
sappy(Quote)
The post on reductionism is quite poor philosophy of science, in my opinion.
Nathan(Quote)
In the post about absence of evidence being evidence of absence, Eliezer claims it is ALWAYS true that this is the case. But what about one of the ways in which Old Testament archeologists identify Jewish settlements? By the absence of pig bones. Doesn’t this mean that at least in this case absence of evidence is not evidence of absence?
Taranu(Quote)
oh wait, the absence of pig bones is evidence in favor of the hypothesis that the settlement belonged to the Jews and this means that the presence of pig bones would be an absence of evidence (an absence of the absence of pig bones). funny isn’t it!
Taranu(Quote)