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Ethan Smith
22 hours ago11 min read
There are probably a lot of special people.
One conviction I hold very strongly is that "special" people are possibly much more common than we may be lead to believe. While we are...
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Ethan Smith
Mar 147 min read
Minimum Faith
Within the study of machine learning, you'll often hear that the objective is to find the solution that maximizes likelihood . We have a...
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Ethan Smith
Mar 113 min read
Kolmogorov Complexity
Mandelbrot function: Zn+1 = (Zn)^2 + C | Location: -1.4732524061369524549 + -0.0058138265122775765014 i , Radius:...
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Ethan Smith
Feb 127 min read
To create something new, you need to make some noise.
One of the most interesting things about the development of AI was the order of achieved milestones. Relatively small models can create...
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Ethan Smith
Jan 1311 min read
The Tough Case for Free Will
"Would someone without free will do this?" is one of the most common responses I've heard to the proposition that free will might not...
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Ethan Smith
Jan 1210 min read
How absurd it is, that anything is at all.
Art from "In the Aeroplane over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel There are several dimensions by which we may feel small. You may feel...
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Ethan Smith
Oct 18, 202410 min read
AI should help humans understand each other.
Empathy through technology
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