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Joscha Bach
Personal blog · bach.aiaiphilosophy
Joscha Bach's personal blog at bach.ai covers ai and philosophy. Since 2018, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Machine Dreams – Dreaming Machines”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers point to Joscha Bach's site for his talks on computational theories of the mind and AI consciousness, and for his research publications and essays such as on quantum computers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-22
- Machine Dreams – Dreaming Machines2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-29
What Hacker News says?
I mean, there's no question that he chose to branch out from strictly hard-core AI researchers. And I don't watch every episode, so I may have missed some of the "bad" ones, but from what I've seen, most of his interviewees are still respected / credible scientists, with a smattering of "other" mixed in here and there. In the past month or so he's had Jeffrey Shainline[1], Travis Oliphant[2], Jay McClelland[3], Doug…
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on “Peter Norvig Joins Stanford HAI”Submitted From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Consciousness as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe English Wikipedia article was not very enlightening, so I went over to the German Wikipedia which includes this helpful example: > According to [David] Hume, free will is not the ability to choose otherwise given the exact same inner and outer condition. He considers it the hypothetical ability to choose otherwise, had the actor been in a psychologically different state because of different wishes or beliefs. (S…
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on “Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress”Submitted Joscha Bach: Do we live in a simulation or in the base reality? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'd recommending digging through his website: http://bach.ai/ Depending on what interests you, maybe also look at the abstracts of his research papers? http://bach.ai/publications/
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on “Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality [video]”Submitted Machine Dreams – Dreaming Machines (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWhat a coincidence - I was just watching this month old interview a few hours before it was posted here. Maybe Youtube's algo is pushing it... Anyway, the way Joscha explained various concepts was very interesting - the phrases he used kept me hooked. At the very least it's entertaining. For example: "Social media is the world's brain hooked on dopamine - creating a permanent seizure" "Entropic Abyss" "Closed Coolin…
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on “Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality [video]”Submitted Machine Dreams – Dreaming Machines as a story · 1 points
HN discussionJoscha Bach is great. He has many other talks available on his website. [0] His Twitter [1] is also a fun and interesting place, check it out. 0. http://bach.ai/videos/ 1. https://twitter.com/Plinz
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on “The Ghost in the Machine: An AI Perspective on the Soul [video]”Joscha Bach [0] has some really interesting CCC talks about the reverse: Computational theories of the mind, really good stuff. [0] http://bach.ai/
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on “Ask HN: Is neuroscience-inspired machine learning the next big thing?”Joscha Bach has some interesting arguments against it: http://bach.ai/quantum-computers-wont-work/
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on “Disentangling the facts from the hype of quantum computing”
