"DIY Cognitive Performance Tracking"

Articles on ai, anthropics, minds and substrates, planning as modelling, Occam's razor and more.

This story is for the extended mind thesis what Permutation City is for a certain sort of computationalism: Something between an illumination of the fascinating consequences and a reductio ad absurdum.

On Gödel's and Nagel's contrasting views on the possible significance of Gödel’s theorems for minds vs. machines in the development of mathematics.

"What you want is who you can become. We are free to choose what we want, but we are not free in our wants themselves (desires and motivations), which are innate and vary across the population."

Conclusion: Systems that duplicate our functional organization will be conscious even if they are made of silicon, constructed out of water-pipes, or instantiated in an entire population.

The accumulated amount of deliberate practice is closely related to the attained level of performance of many types of experts, such as musicians, chessplayers and athletes.

"... dass diese Furcht zu irren schon der Irrtum selbst ist."

Essays about art, memes, the mind, language, philosophy, strategies and more.