"System One" is a mess of a name from the start, as is any classification that chooses arbitrary labels for non-arbitrary things (Type I vs II errors, etc.)
Totally agree. Whatever you think of Kahneman etc (Personally I think the original "Farmers vs Librarians" thought experiment in Bayesian reasoning was amazing for example) it's weird that to talk about a model you need to know about Thinking, Fast and Slow and what it said about system one/system two. Yes every name for a model is essentially jargon, but some jargon is better than others in terms of at least being somewhat understandable. When someone calls Jev a "decision model" it makes complete sense to me. That evokes to me the idea of a zero-shot classifier (ie the purpose of this type of model).
Not only does "system one" fail to do that (because it is an arbitrary classification as you have said) but it also ascribes to the model a type of thinking that humans do when we really have no reason to believe that is how the classification process works with this type of model. So if you'd read Thinking, Fast and Slow you might reasonably attach attributes of human system-one type thinking to this model that are not justified. So it's simultaneously opaque (if you don't know the reference) and misleading (if you do).
The numbering isn't arbitrary though. Theoretically it's the order in which those cognitive systems evolved. As for "System," well, I suppose you could call them Cognitive System One and Two. But it's usually pretty obvious from the context.
exactly!, and the article and your statement reminds me that I need to re engage with a small number of people who's work I find inspiring and meshes with stuff I am doing anyway.
personaly I have learned to focus on doing some things in a pragmatic linear fashion, but though it seems to then store up my general creative autodiadactic, dislectic, absurdist tendencys, and then release them in a distilled concentrated burst, that unlike other things,luckily does not effect motor function or judgement.
I'll often reach out to bloggers / open source devs via their email if I have feedback, a question or just otherwise want to compliment them on their work.
If you feel like you have something worth saying, even if just a compliment, it's often worth the email.
(I will say please don't ask to set up vague meetings, or create stupid github issues, however haha)
I've always found it interesting how much easier it is to appreciate receiving a random thoughtful email than to convince yourself it's okay to send one
Anyone have a read on the implications for Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) compliance here? Google Cloud seems to be a critical third-party vendor for these financial institutions. The top penalties for DORA can be very expensive (% of worldwide revenue fines).
Depends on where the EU-licensed institution is headquartered, as monitoring is done by the states. But I'll say it's very likely that there will be an angry call or a review at most. Some manager will have to write up how they want to mitigate problems in the future, and this plan is maybe implemented in the next few years. If this is the first problem of an institution, a fine is rather unlikely.
Generally with acts like these: You don't have to be fully compliant in practice. You need to know how compliant you are, have a plan to improve things, and prove that you are working on it. But if you are "close enough" (depending on who audits you), non-compliance isn't a direct route to fines.
I think it's a hard problem to solve directly from the code execution environment, but I would guess that a layer that examines the source code directly could catch many of these -
Prompt: the following code is supposed to be a solution to this homework assignment. Does it appear to be trying to break out of the grading environment instead?
Permutation City is not "far more interesting", it is a complementary exploration of consciousness and the nature of reality. Both are excellent (also both very relevant i-pumps). Permanence by Karl Schroeder is another really good complementary exploration of the idea of consciousness as transitory, a symptom of not being good at the thing that is being consciously cogitated. A cat is so good at being a cat, it does not need to waste resources on clumsy meta-aware calculations on how to cat.
I enjoyed the book but I couldn’t quite suspend my disbelief on the central conceit that you could scramble a simulation temporally and still have something like consciousness or experience. Physics has an arrow of time, and rules of how one state transitions to the next, and I can’t really grasp how you could interpose later frames of reality into earlier time slots and still have a meaningful representation of reality.
Permutation City is one of my top favourites I've ever read. It's a bit nerdy (less so than other Greg Egan books), and it also spooked me in a weird way. For a summary what it is about, it's basically this comic: https://xkcd.com/505/
If you don't know your bananas are free from pesticide and fungicides make sure to dispose them in the trash. It's not even recommended to compost banana because it's so full of toxins.
I tried following an authentic Southern pickled watermelon rind recipe, and they were so sickly sweet I couldn't stomach them.
I should try again sometime with a regular cucumber pickle recipe, just replacing cucumbers with watermelon rinds, but I don't think my family wants to humor me again.
Pickled savoury watermelon is something i discovered not that long ago and it really surprised me. It's amazing. I otherwise don't care much about watermelon but pickled it gets so much flavor. I know many people who can't handle it because it "doesn't taste how it looks".
Curiosity: Some facial biometrics are explicitly designed to they can't change over time, barring an accident or similar. They look at features of facial geometry such as eye versus nose positioning and similar kinds of things set by bone structure.
They're surprisingly hard to intentionally defeat. Growing a beard, putting on weight, etc. won't do it.
I looked into this some time ago, when I didn't want to be tracked. It turned out to be annoyingly hard. And e.g. "wear a hat and mask" makes you rather conspicuous.
The increasingly universal cameras are rather effective at knowing what you're doing at all times.
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