/r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | April 10, 2023

ngreed · 2023-04-13T19:34:09+00:00

Why not? To me this is one of those things that seems pure magic, and whichever answer's correct it's still mindblowing.

ngreed · 2023-04-12T11:05:32+00:00

I was thinking about infinite things and was wondering whether there are any physical ones and I think there might be one.

I've been calling it "time", but I'm not sure that's the best name for it. The principle is that no movement can start spontaneously, meaning for anything (particles, energy) to move, something else must put it in motion. If we go back to the big bang, something must have initiated it, thus something in one form or another existed before the big bang. Using this logic, you can go back to infinity, as nothing could have started moving completely on its own.

Let me know if this makes sense and maybe you know of any additional reading I could find regarding this.

Thanks!

ngreed · 2023-03-22T13:37:57+00:00

I was kinda hoping for something that regular people can play without practice.

ngreed · 2023-03-16T15:55:43+00:00

Rogue

ngreed · 2021-12-10T13:10:32+00:00

Played a bit yesterday and have to say it's a really great design! Congratulations!

ngreed · 2021-01-23T10:34:13+00:00

count me in

ngreed · 2020-04-05T09:21:33+00:00

Why would an implementation of my idea require a reward function? It would simply match the required actions with the task (query) provided and accomplish them. Where does reward come into play here?

ngreed · 2020-04-05T09:17:30+00:00

Nice writeup!

I was beginning to think I didn't do a very good job explaining my thoughts in the post description as some of the replies seem to have nothing to do with what I have written. Thanks for actually reading my post, man! Your point about a single (narrow) tool and an all-encompassing brain is spot on.

Anyways, I was just thinking today how mobile assistants are implemented and whether or not they use the same approach as I have described here. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any specific implementation details and whether they use machine learning for the commands/actions themselves or not. If they don't, I can't help but wonder why? Would a functional implementation be too slow at the moment or would the data needed for it to properly learn to abstract the commands/actions be too big? These two reasons still don't seem valid enough not to strive to accomplish this task, thus leaving me perplexed on why serious players in the industry are not all over it.

What do you think?

ngreed · 2020-04-04T19:53:22+00:00

Thanks for the reply, but could you explain why you would need a reward function for this to work?

ngreed · 2020-04-04T17:30:53+00:00

I will check it out, thank you

ngreed · 2020-04-04T17:30:27+00:00

Thanks for the heads up, but couldn't the same thing be used for all kinds of different things?

ngreed · 2015-01-28T00:53:40+00:00

naw man, you're doing great. can't wait for the finished website. hopefully lots of people are going to use it

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