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The “Truth is Manifest” Error
Critical Rationalism

The “Truth is Manifest” Error

Posted on June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

One of my favorite ideas of championed by Karl Popper is what he calls the “truth is manifest” error. After describing how successful Renaissance epistemology…

Reinforcement Learning: How to Drop the Transition Function (RL Series Part 2)
Machine Learning

Reinforcement Learning: How to Drop the Transition Function (RL Series Part 2)

Posted on June 15, 2020June 1, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

In my last post I situated Reinforcement Learning in the family of Artificial Intelligence vs Machine Learning group of algorithms and then described how, at least…

Can There Be Multiple Levels of Universality?
Computation

Can There Be Multiple Levels of Universality?

Posted on June 12, 2020November 1, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

I’ve seen Four Stranders claim that the idea that you can have a level of computational universality above a level of computational universality is a…

If Induction Doesn’t Exist, Why Does Machine Learning Work?
Artifical General Intelligence

If Induction Doesn’t Exist, Why Does Machine Learning Work?

Posted on June 9, 2020January 7, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

After Part 1 of my Reinforcement Learning series came out, KS from Twitter asked me the following: Is reinforcement learning inductive though? Can’t falsify (untrue)…

What Makes Reinforcement Learning So Exciting? (RL Series part 1)
Machine Learning

What Makes Reinforcement Learning So Exciting? (RL Series part 1)

Posted on June 8, 2020June 1, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

What is Reinforcement Learning? “…reinforcement learning seems to be a general learning algorithm that can be applied to a variety of environments; it may even…

Morality

Starship Troopers Film: A Review

Posted on June 7, 2020June 7, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

Back in 1997, a movie adaption of the Robert Heinlein’s book Starship Troopers came out. I had read the book but was put off that…

Critical Rationalism

Open Ideas

Posted on June 4, 2020June 3, 2020 by Logan Chipkin

If one takes the anarcho-libertarian concept of private property seriously, then there is no ‘freedom of speech’ in any fundamental sense. Rather, the only genuine…

Computation

Gödel Wolfram Deutsch

Posted on June 3, 2020July 29, 2020 by dwarkesh

Link to original article here The Turing principle In 1936, Church and Turing independently discovered the same model of universal computation. Their proof is known…

How Criticism Usually Unfolds
Critical Rationalism

How Criticism Usually Unfolds

Posted on June 3, 2020July 12, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

Popper once wrote: For what really happens [when we criticize a theory] is this. If we feel that we should produce some criticism of [Theory]…

Solving the Halting Problem Using Quantum Oracle Computers
Computation

Solving the Halting Problem Using Quantum Oracle Computers

Posted on June 1, 2020May 30, 2020 by Bruce Nielson

The following is an extended quote from Roger Penrose from Shadows of the Mind, p. 382-383: Though it indeed seems reasonable to rule out space-time…

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