Author Archives: Raelifin

Welcome to the Prisidium

By Raelifin | Published: March 14, 2011

Looks like you can’t see the iframe content. Perhaps you’re not on the blog? P.S. This post is so tall because the code is in an iframe. The code could easily integrate as a library, and I could then make this a normal post, but I want it to be encapsulated for now.

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Re: Mind Organization Insight

By Raelifin | Published: March 10, 2011

This is a response-post to Mind Organization Insight on Iteration. David writes about the mental mechanism commonly called “attention” or ” focus” or “thinking about”. This is a subject I care a lot about, as it seems to be the keystone of human intelligence. This post is very much a direct response to the other, [...]

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Simple Rationality

By Raelifin | Published: March 3, 2011

I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to post this. Several weeks ago I was playing a turn-based fighting game that I love, and I got to thinking “what would an AI that plays this game well look like?” And as I thought about it, it became clear to me that the challenge [...]

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Cooperative Disagreement

By Raelifin | Published: February 28, 2011

This post is in many ways a response to Being Right and Knowing It on Rysade’s Blog “Iteration”. In other ways it is an attempt to remind myself of my ideals in the wake of failing them a couple nights ago when debating genetic engineering. When some Jehovah’s Witnesses come to my door and ask [...]

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Defining Feedback Loops

By Raelifin | Published: February 20, 2011

Imagine a system, any system. It could be Super Mario, the solar system, facebook, a cell, whatever. Now, this system is almost surely filled with various quantities, be they distances, velocities, hidden variables, or just countable things. I will call each quantity an x. (One x might be how fast Mario is moving along the [...]

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