One Genius' Lonely Crusade to Teach a Computer Common Sense (2016) 2 years ago
Related thread from when Doug Lenat passed away in 2023
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On the Nature of Time 2 years ago
I don't think they are saying anything similar at all. Julian Barbour finds a way to get rid of Time completely (by saying every possible state exists and there must be some law that favours states that _seem_ to be related to _apparently_ previous states). Wolfram is more focused on making sense of 'time is change' through the lens of computation.
The End of Private Libraries? 2 years ago
Books are like candles, an obsolete technology that we will keep around forever because they look nice and they are good in a power cut (or in the bath)
There’s extensive literature on the lack of modern disease in hunter gatherers.
Well yeah because their life expectancy is about 45 years