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gwern's avatar

Worth noting in this context is https://secure.wikimedia.or...

So Robin: *would* you describe yourself as a transhumanist and futurologist?

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The transhuman kid deduced it. Now the kid will say something that will immediately induce a major 'crisis of faith' in Bayesians!

Transhuman kid stares at a couple of humans playing dice. They make one roll and in another millisecond he says:

'A mind's models of reality are like a sort of space. The 'objects' are like predicates - symbolic representations of states, the 'forces' are like the strengths of the relations between predicates - probability distributions - and the 'geometry' is like the concepts or categories. The apparent probability distributions are actually just special cases of curvatures (categorizations) in the geometry of mind space'

He's a smart kid this transhuman kid.

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