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You think the coin under the cup is already heads or tails. It isn't. You think you are one person, a single thread running through time. You aren't. Take quantum mechanics literally and decline to add the one thing the equations never contained, a …
We taught sand to think. We did it before we learned to say what we wanted it to do. There is a real, settled, and genuinely beautiful theory of what intelligence is: Bayes' theorem, Solomonoff's universal prior, and expected-utility maximization, …
You think time flows. It doesn't. You think the present is special. It isn't. You think the future is open, carved from a space of possibilities. It isn't. This follows from three experimentally confirmed facts, the constancy of the speed of light, …