thoughts

I write down random thoughts I have, mostly for myself but if anyone is interested also for them.

What is the unit of utility?
One weird implication of computational consciousness
When an AI would convince me that it is self-aware
What are emotions?
Qualia probably doesn't require that much intelligence or self-awareness
Do we live in a simulation?
What is reality?
The basics: epistemics, ontology, meta ethics, utilitarianism
How crazy information flow between humans changed
Different metaphors to describe our universe
Arbitrary boundaries of definitions in a fluid world give a wrong impression of discrete things

todo

longtermism - if we assume there is a minimal chance x of everything dying per year, then we should use (1-x)^t as a discount factor in our utility function, exactly how it is done in reinforcement learning. Therefore, future utility is likely not as vast.
utilitarianism: is the ethics with the least arbitrary assumptions - how would you act if you would experience the universe from the perspective of everyone and everything one after the other
non-discrete computations - can we say the universe is computational if time is continous? Can we define a computational model for non-discrete inputs, outputs and states?
- turing machine has a transition function that computes a sequence of discrete states. We want a transition function that computes states at non-discrete points in time, and therefore need to define the transition as state change wrt to the state index t. The transition function would be a differential equation
entropy
the 'what is consciousness' miro board