Benjamin Freilich

[Benjamin Freilich @benfmd]

@mikejgr But If he quit politics he would lose his ability to trade on insider information!

[Benjamin Freilich @benfmd]

@mikejgr @Scaramucci I’ll give you odds on that prediction 😂

[Benjamin Freilich @benfmd]

@RenoMayGuns Hard to tell much of a difference in muzzle flip from your video. Is there any reason to upgrade from the C3.6 to the C4x? Is there any advantage to the 3.6 over the C4x?

[Benjamin Freilich @benfmd]

@RaminNasibov The Beginning of Infinity
-David Deutsch

[Benjamin Freilich @benfmd]

Thanks for the terrific articles on your Substack. Quick question. When training zone 2, are the greatest gains to be had if training sessions are performed at or below blood lactate levels of 2.0 mmol? Should after a warm up, one attempt to spend most of the zone 2 session as close as possible to that 2.0mmol level without going over?

[Benjamin Freilich @benfmd]

@BitcoinArchive Ask if the viability of quantum computing is supporting evidence for the Everettian interpretation of quantum mechanics

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@ToKTeacher @GregKamradt I give my strongest recommendation to reading the book in conjunction with Brett’s commentary. Brett’s insights into the thought of David Deutsch are invaluable. I would also highly recommend every video on his Tokcast YouTube channel!

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@Mangan150 Is your resistance training circuit training with little rest between sets?

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@DavidDeutschOxf Thanks David for this link. Brilliant video. He should devote an episode to “The Pattern”

[Benjamin Freilich @benfmd]

Brett, your point is well taken. But can’t it be said that genes can encode for propensities of certain behaviors? Those behaviors of course are not deterministically set in stone and can be changed by human creativity and free will? An analogy could be that computers with different hardware configurations can run certain software programs more smoothly and easier than computers with a different hardware setup even if both computers are Turing complete?
Thanks

[Benjamin Freilich @benfmd]

@ToKTeacher @cosmopterix Brett, Gurwinder needs to read your fantastic new book!

[Benjamin Freilich @benfmd]

I understand that The Pattern is not the same as hostility. Rather as I understand your definition, it is an irrational moral compulsion to hurt Jews even if one does not “hate” Jews. Maybe, and this is pure speculation, as Ancient Israel increased its influence in Cannan, especially as the mythology of having been victorious over Egypt became more well known (even if an Exodus as described in the Torah did not occur) the surrounding Canaanite and Ancient Near Eastern cultures developed a survival instinct to confront the perceived threat which then evolved into The Pattern. Is this a potentially good explanation?

[Benjamin Freilich @benfmd]

In regard to The Pattern, do you think its origin can be traced back to the ethnogenesis of Ancient Israel? Much archaeological evidence points to Israel emerging from preexisting Canaanite cultures (see Avraham Faust). As they diverged and formed a new ethnicity they were perceived as different (dietary laws, burial practices, pottery, etc) especially as their elites began to adopt monotheism. Could this cultural divide have created a new irrational meme that persisted and became The Pattern?

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@DavidDeutschOxf Wow. I did not realize he was named after Patterson. Nice to know. Thanks!

[Benjamin Freilich @benfmd]

@DavidDeutschOxf Yes agreed! Col Patterson was a great man, and his leadership of Jewish military units in WWI inspired the great accomplishments of modern day Israel and the IDF. In this aspect of his life he truly represented Enlightenment values, standing in opposition to anti-Jewish dogmas.

[Benjamin Freilich @benfmd]

@ToKTeacher Hi Brett. Any thoughts on this post? My guess is you would argue that LLMs do use inductive reasoning:

https://t.co/xg5kckhwGt

[Bruce Nielson @bnielson01]

A while back I did a podcast on so-called “induction” in machine learning.

It turns out that Tom Mitchell’s proof of the impossibility of bias-free learning is basically the same argument Karl Popper made against induction.

In machine learning, every algorithm has an “inductive bias” — a built-in set of assumptions about the problem. Without those assumptions, learning from data is impossible.

If you made that bias explicit and fed it into a theorem prover along with the observations, you'd get the same "inductive" result.

In other words:
what people call induction in machine learning is really just deduction from assumptions + data.

There is no actual induction happening.

Which is exactly what Popper argued: induction is a myth.

Honestly, I’m surprised more critical rationalists aren’t shouting this from the rooftops. Unfortunately, most critical rationalists today think ML is true induction (though they often argue it is weak, lame, or 'just a conjecture').

But Popper’s claim was stronger: induction doesn’t exist at all.

Turns out, he was right.

Full explanation here. Walk through Mitchell's argument for yourself:
https://t.co/7sBMcrbIGU

[Benjamin Freilich @benfmd]

@Math_files An example of human explanatory creativity as described by David Deutsch.

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Interesting insight about Adam Smith. Is not Smith going through the process of conjecture and refutation to create knowledge about economic progress and morality that is akin to your principle of optimism? Moral truth is present in the universe and is arrived at through Popperian reasoning?

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@Mangan150 What exercises are building your VO2max? What is your VO2max?

[Benjamin Freilich @benfmd]

@Mangan150 Excellent! Do you do any structured cardio like running, cycling or rowing? Or any HIIT using these cardio modalities? Is your resistance training structured as a HIIT type workout with minimal rest between exercises, or do you take 1-2 minutes rest between sets? Thanks !