Tag: effortpost
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⭐ Review: Children of Time and the abstract purpose of grammar
The book Children of Time features a race of spiders that have developed their own language. What is their language like? How is it structured? And what’s the deal with spider webs?
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Hyperbolic Discounting and Pascal’s Mugging
Google tells you that it is “a psychological bias where people to prioritize immediate rewards and satisfaction over future rewards”. In fact, this is only half right. Hyperbolic discounting also causes people to overvalue distant rewards in addition to overvaluing near-term rewards!
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⭐ Creating Magic the Gathering cards with generative AI
Can generative AI can be used to create novel Magic the Gathering cards? Yes! This is both an article about designing for a card game and about how to work with generative AI for a project like this.
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Functional Decomposition of AGI
Broad claim: There is not just one central problem of intelligence, not just one master algorithm. Instead, intelligence consists of solving distinct types of problems using distinct algorithms. By analyzing what types of problems are composite to intelligence, we can find algorithms that match those problems, and by composing those algorithms properly, we can construct…