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David Ruescas
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Jan 2

“Human level AI” is a misleading concept

I’ve used and will probably continue to use the term human level AI to refer to a level of machine intelligence that is competent enough to carry out tasks that humans carry out. In particular, capable of carrying out those tasks that we consider evidence for intelligence when done by…

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Nov 24, 2022

Liquid democracy and spectral theory

In this post we will show some practical examples of how liquid democracy can be understood in terms of, and make use of results from spectral graph theory. For more background please see [Vigna2009]. Wikipedia says: In mathematics, spectral graph theory is the study of properties of a graph in…

Liquid Democracy

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Liquid democracy and spectral theory
Liquid democracy and spectral theory
Liquid Democracy

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Nov 24, 2022

AI Progress: Ladders and Rockets

I once heard a metaphor about progress that I now use when talking about AI. Don’t know where I heard it first, so can’t give credit. Update: see comment by Pat Lee below. Imagine you want to get to the moon, but you don’t know how. Someone suggests using a…

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AI Progress: Ladders and Rockets
AI Progress: Ladders and Rockets

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Nov 23, 2022

Beauty and simplicity in physics

A theory appears beautiful or elegant [..] when it’s simple, [..] when it can be expressed very concisely. — Murray Gell-Mann The question of whether one should use beauty as a heuristic in physics is a difficult problem with deep philosphical roots. It is hard to find appropriate assumptions to…

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Physics

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