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From one piece Towards a Theory of Bugs: The Ruliology of the Unexpected 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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to make the program worth actually running, there have to be parts of its behavior you can't foresee. But then there's a piece of intuition from the Principle of Computational Equivalence: once there's anything you can't foresee, there tends to be a lot you can't foresee. In other words, the system will tend to be full of computational irreducibility.
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A program's simplicity of structure does not limit how sophisticated the computation it performs can be.Their words
even programs (or fragments of them) that are very simple in their structure can end up doing computation that is in a sense as sophisticated as anything.
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Computational irreducibility is ubiquitous, affecting essentially any system whose behavior is not obviously simple.Their words
computational irreducibility is not just something that's in principle possible; it's something that (according to the Principle of Computational Equivalence) is at some level ubiquitous-and affects essentially any system whose behavior is not obviously simple.
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From one piece Launching Version 15 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: Built-in (Useful) AI & Lots of New Core Functionality 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI-generated code is not fully reliable and typically needs significant manual effort to keep it working correctly.Their words
Yes, it's not perfectly reliable, and typically requires quite sophisticated wrangling to keep it on track.
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But there are many situations, particularly in more technical areas, where "looking right" isn't good enough: you need to actually know what is being computed.
4 June
From one piece Games between Programs: The Ruliology of Competition 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It's notable that machine 22 (which corresponds to the famous "tit-for-tat" strategy) is quite far down in this ranking, even though it's often identified as the most successful in collections of human-suggested strategies.
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Adaptive evolution tends to achieve even a simple, fixed objective through complicated behavior.Their words
In other words, adaptive evolution will tend to make even a simple, fixed objective be achieved in a complicated way.
23 February
From one piece Making Wolfram Tech Available as a Foundation Tool for LLM Systems 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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it's become much clearer that-at least for the modalities LLMs currently address-most of the growth in their practical value is going to have to do with how they are harnessed and connected.
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Large language models are broad and impressive but not precise, and are not fundamentally about deep computation.Their words
LLMs don't-and can't-do everything. What they do is very impressive-and useful. It's broad. And in many ways it's human-like. But it's not precise. And in the end it's not about deep computation.
4 February
From one piece What Ultimately Is There? Metaphysics and the Ruliad 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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it's the fact that this is a single thread that seems to give us our sense of coherent existence, and in effect, of consciousness.
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what we see is that the Second Law is something that emerges because of us, and our characteristics as observers, and in particular our computational boundedness.
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space is not just a simple continuum. Instead, it's a complicated discrete structure that in fact represents every aspect of our universe-both what we normally think of as space, and everything in it.
30 January
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Even very simple, easily enumerated computer programs commonly produce extremely rich and complex behavior.Their words
But what I discovered in the early 1980s is that this is absolutely not the case-and that in fact it's very common for programs even small enough to be easily enumerated to show extremely rich and complex behavior.
12 January
From one piece What Is Ruliology? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The behavior of very simple computational rules can require large amounts of obscure mathematics to fully capture.Their words
But it's remarkable how quickly the mathematics tends to get out of hand, with even a very simple rule having behavior that can only be captured by large amounts of obscure mathematics.
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The behavior of the simplest computational rules is permanently foundational, not merely significant for the present.Their words
If one's dealing with the simplest rules of some type, they're going to be foundational not only now, but forever.
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Studying what arbitrary computational rules do is a distinct science, separate from computer science and mathematics.Their words
It's not computer science, because that would be about programs we construct for particular purposes, rather than ones that are just "out there in the wilds of the computational universe".
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MathematicaTheir words
By far my #1 tool is Mathematica. Which, of course, I built so I could have it to use!
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Wolfram|AlphaTheir words
I use both the current Wolfram|Alpha, and versions running on our hierarchy of development and test systems.
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FirefoxTheir words
These days I use Firefox as my primary browser, Adobe Connect for webconferencing, ShoreTel for telephony (I'm a stickler for audio quality), and a horrific calendar system that I've been trying to get us to replace for ages.
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MacBook ProTheir words
Around my house, I just switched to using a 15" MacBook Pro as my portable computer.
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Lenovo ThinkPad X301Their words
Outside the house, I had been using a Lenovo ThinkPad X301 running Windows 7 with a cellular modem, but I'm now switching to a MacBook Air with a MiFi device.
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iPhone 4Their words
I currently use an iPhone 4 as my main mobile phone, and I'm now carrying an iPad 3G around to use as my instant-on system.
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