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| So, post banning, I'm going to have to move philosophical musing over here. Those of you who don't give a damn: forgive me.
For the rest of you, here's something that's been on my mind all summer. I was originally planning on doing some research to fill out the points I'm less confident on, but now I don't really see any reason not to just throw it out there.
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| | Tags: | bayes nets, church-turing thesis, counterfactuals, free-will, haphazardism, in itself, michael prospect, necessity, self-consciousness, self-representation, subjectivist probability, supervenience | | Current Location: | home | | Subject: | Free will | | Time: | 09:28 pm | | Current Mood: | wordy |
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| DISCLAIMER: This is a disorganized ramble written over the course of several days. By the time I wrote the end, I didn't remember the beginning. I can't vouch for it's coherence as a whole. Or of any of the parts, really.
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| Consciousness final and sociolinguistics paper are done. That leaves only the cog sci work and the book review. Still won't get home before Friday--I just hope I'll have time to do all the book review research I need before the libraries close.
In the meantime, I keep getting distracted by other thoughts.
Here's one: we think we can model basically any causal system using causal Bayes nets. But I'm having trouble figuring out a good formal treatment of.... I'm not even sure how to say this: higher- or lower-level events.
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| | Tags: | bayes nets, dialogue, dionysus, diplomacy, ethics of power, explorer destroyer, failure, faust, firefox, google, inference algorithms, internet explorer, italics, junction tree, reginster, sabin school, the devil, thoth, will to power | | Current Music: | "If I Should Lose You," Charlie Parker | | Subject: | Mumbo Jumbo | | Time: | 07:45 pm | | Current Mood: | scattered |
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| Dionysus: If you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
Thoth: (thinks about it)
"For now, we will use the junction tree engine, which is the mother of all exact inference algorithms."
- Kevin Murphy, Bayes Net Toolbox Tutorial.
"Stop italicizing everything."
- Philosophy TA's grading comments
"You Sebastian have truly achieved something magnificent with this game. It is an epic labor, and I shall never forget it's glory. I, just tonight, met John _____ (Greenland)-- a good fellow-- and I must tell you that you're success; you've created cultural differences in a game of Diplomacy. This game is so engaging and exciting; you may have created a monster, but oh what a monster!"
- Sabin School
"Mozilla built us a wonderful tool. Google gave us a carrot. Now take the stick and beat IE's ass."
- Explorer Destroyer, a site dedicated to encouraging people to switch from IE to Firefox while using Google's offer of $1 to each Firefox user you refer.
"Poor sorry Devil, what could you deliver?
Was human mind in lofty aspiration ever
Comprehended by the likes of you?"
- Faust
Reginster says that a true embrace of the ethics of power requires that one value one's own inevitable failure (inevitable because of the nature of the will to power itself, and other implicit assumptions, that imply that ultimately one must encounter resistence that one is not strong enough to overcome.) ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) barilosopher raised the question of whether this requirement was a necessary one (P(Value Inevitable Failure|Value "Creativity") = 1?), or what one would rationally conclude if one was thinking hard enough about it. Reginster minced words on the answer, as he often does to barilosopher's questions. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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