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Forget AI, VR Will Change Humans into Another Species (ft. Jaron Lanier)

Dr Brian Keating152 views
Perception of Reality: Reality is statistically real because it is imperfect and noisy. Lanier argues that 'the way you know something is real is that you can't know it totally.' Absolute knowledge is an abstraction, nottakeaway“The way you know something is real is that you can't know it totally. I think that's accurate. Whenever you know something fully, that means you know some kind of abstraction or construct. And that is exactly not realitquote

The Chip That Could Unlock AGI

a16z96 views
Analog vs. Digital: Digital computers use lossy abstractions (bits) to simulate physics, whereas analog systems use the physical properties of the medium directly. This makes analog inherently more efficient for stochasttakeawayBrain Efficiency: Biological brains operate on ~20 watts and scale down to ~0.1 watts for smaller animals, demonstrating that intelligence can be highly energy-efficient when implemented physically without software abstrtakeaway

Dr. Stephen Hicks | The Philosophy of Politics Part 1

Peterson Academy6 views
The French Revolution failed because it prioritized abstract 'metaphysical abstractions' of liberty and equality over practical necessities like government stability, public force, morality, and religion.takeaway“I cannot stand forward to give praise or blame to anything which relates to human actions and human concerns on a simple view of the subject as it stands stripped of every relation in all the nakedness and solitude of mquote