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Computationally Universal Inference Systems as a Model for General Intelligence
Artifical General Intelligence

Computationally Universal Inference Systems as a Model for General Intelligence

Posted on February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 by Ella Hoeppner

Ideas and Implications In his 1990 talk “The Myth of the Standpoint” Karl Popper said: …the correct method of critical discussion is: What are the…

Category Theory: Types of Categories
Computation

Category Theory: Types of Categories

Posted on February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

In this post, I continue to follow chapter by chapter from Category Theory for Programmers By Bartosz Milewski, this time looking at Chapter 3: Categories…

Are Hypotheses Naively Refutable?
Critical Rationalism

Are Hypotheses Naively Refutable?

Posted on February 18, 2021February 18, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

Upfront apologies for this post. It’s a bit messy. That’s because I’m exploring ideas that I’m confused about and I’m seeking other’s thoughts to clarify…

Popper on “the Fun Criteria”
Critical Rationalism

Popper on “the Fun Criteria”

Posted on February 15, 2021January 7, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

I came across this quote and thought people might enjoy it’s relationship to the recently much discussed “fun criteria.” Thus the pure theoretician… will choose…

The Problems of the Word “Consciousness”
Artifical General Intelligence

The Problems of the Word “Consciousness”

Posted on February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

Is the study of Artificial General Intelligence identical to the study of consciousness? The word “consciousness” is bantered about as if it’s a specific thing.…

Myth of the Framework: Why Conflict Must Never Be Eliminated
Critical Rationalism

Myth of the Framework: Why Conflict Must Never Be Eliminated

Posted on February 8, 2021January 7, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

This is a historical post. In my last post, I mentioned that I subscribe to Karl Popper’s ideas about “The Myth of the Framework.” So…

The Critical Rationalist Translation Guide
Critical Rationalism

The Critical Rationalist Translation Guide

Posted on February 4, 2021January 3, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

In past posts, I’ve been building my argument around why Word Essentialism is always a rational mistake under Popperian epistemology. Popper himself explained this. I…

The Myth of the Framework Introduction: What’s Your Philosophy?
Critical Rationalism

The Myth of the Framework Introduction: What’s Your Philosophy?

Posted on February 1, 2021January 7, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

This is a historical post. In this post I was struggling to make sense of Popper. Agellius (a devout Catholic friend of mine) once asked…

Naïve Falsification vs Theory-to-Theory Comparison
Critical Rationalism

Naïve Falsification vs Theory-to-Theory Comparison

Posted on January 28, 2021January 28, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

In my historical posts, I compared the epistemology of Kuhn and Popper and pointed out that they actually agree on a lot more than people…

Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Data
Machine Learning

Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Data

Posted on January 25, 2021January 7, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

“Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Data,” (link) by Michael Laskin, et al introduces the idea of using data augmentation in Reinforcement Learning. Data augmentation is already…

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