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