Andrew

🧙‍♂️ @ankihubofficial / @ankisrs

[Andrew @informandrew]

@dchackethal Does he think that? BOI frames it as an open problem. “there is as yet no explanatory theory of qualia, and hence no way of detecting them experimentally.” There is no good theory to infer *anything* about qualia (human or animal) based on observable behavior, afaik.

[Andrew @informandrew]

@intellectronica @ToKTeacher agreed, @intellectronica ! the fact that you have read it is incredibly good news for the world.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

@theognisSC2 @zeeg Pay a designer

[Andrew @informandrew]

Failing to find a black swan does not decrease the probability of their existence. One shouldn’t expect to find oneself because *being* isn’t the sort of thing that can be found.

[Brett Hall @ToKTeacher]

The claim “the self does not exist” *given* experiences during a first person exploration of consciousness is just empiricism applied to introspection/mindfulness/etc.

[Andrew @informandrew]

@brgraul @mitsuhiko @badlogicgames I also aspire to be more like them. Classy gents 😎 🤩

[Andrew @informandrew]

> paradoxically, even as we have higher and higher level programming tools with better and better abstractions, becoming a proficient programmer is getting harder and harder.

https://t.co/f2NTCIIoNf

Timeless wisdom from @spolsky circa 2002.

Contemplating its relevance today.

[Andrew @informandrew]

@dchackethal Wouldn't running such a program require a universal explainer or AGI? Making a decision about which explanation is better, even with the hard-to-vary criterion instantiated in a program, would require intelligence and creativity. We people can still use the yardstick.

[Andrew @informandrew]

@fortelabs I love https://t.co/AOBEPQWLV6, but you'd need to automate the export to markdown with a scheduled shortcut or something

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Slow is fast - fast is slow.

The whole industry will re-learn this with AI agents.

It felt fast for this company to let an AI agent access all systems and build stuff (fast). Now, it turned into disastrously slow, when it wrecked it all.

https://t.co/39589ntet7

[Andrew @informandrew]

@reasonisfun "Touch epistemology" seems perfectly Popperian to me. "Organisms and their organs incorporate expectations about their environment," and "I think that, say, 99 per cent of the knowledge of all organisms is inborn and incorporated in our biochemical constitution."

[Andrew @informandrew]

@justinskycak Knowledge ≠ recall. Recall is not the only mechanism by which knowledge affects the world. Most knowledge is not recalled. The value of knowledge doesn't necessarily depend on remembering. Knowledge has causal power even if it is not explicitly remembered.

[Andrew @informandrew]

@reasonisfun “There is no such thing as abstractly knowing something… all knowledge is generated by physical processes, and its scope and limitations are conditioned by the laws of nature.” - Deutsch

[Andrew @informandrew]

@reasonisfun “If the laws of physics as they apply to any physical object or process are to be comprehensible, they must be capable of being embodied in another physical object — the knower.” - Deutsch

[Andrew @informandrew]

@reasonisfun What's the difference between instantiation and embodiment? To know is to physically instantiate knowledge in the body. But the implications are unappreciated due to aversion to the seemingly woo-woo.

[Andrew @informandrew]

@reasonisfun Have you come across the work of Ray Castellino (Womb Surround) and pre/perinatal psychology? It's a bit out there but very interesting. I think you would appreciate it.

[Andrew @informandrew]

Welcome to the real world, @isaac_flath ! I predict you will love Emacs and @mickeynp's book 🤓

[Isaac Flath @isaac_flath]

If you ever need a friend, tell an emacs user you're going to learn emacs and you'll have a friend for life ♥️

cc: @alexisgallagher @informandrew 🤣

Here we go!

[Isaac Flath @isaac_flath]

If you ever need a friend, tell an emacs user you're going to learn emacs and you'll have a friend for life ♥️

cc: @alexisgallagher @informandrew 🤣

Here we go!

[Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward]

I replicated this result, that Grok focuses nearly entirely on finding out what Elon thinks in order to align with that, on a fresh Grok 4 chat with no custom instructions.
https://t.co/NgeMpGWBOB

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

@michael_nielsen @tylercowen There is no behavioural test for being, or for not being, a GI. One would need an explanatory theory of how it works. So crudely speaking, an explanation based on "it works by finishing sentences" would imply not being a GI, since a GI doesn't necessarily finish its