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Revamping Demolition: Insider Secrets to Digital Marketing Success In this episode, Chaitin Maycott, founder of Demolition Marketing Leads, dives deep into how his Florida-based digital marketing firm has transformed the fortunes of the global demolition industry since 2019. Through strategic use of the internet, SEO, and targeted ads, Chaitin's team generates exclusive, high-quality leads for demolition companies, helping them secure millions of dollars in extra revenue annually. Covering his journey from college to running successful marketing campaigns for top demolition firms, Chaitin shares valuable insights on market penetration, client relationship management, and the significance of a strong online presence. If you're keen to learn how digital marketing can act as a 'money printer' for your demolition business, this episode is a must-watch.

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about the history science and technology as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-qa Questions include: Are the stars and constellations we see today the same that were seen by the ancient civilizations who first studied them? Do star positions ever change? - What do you make of the relationship between rhetoric and math? They are held in contradistinction, but I am thinking of the relation between rhetorical invention and Chaitin's idea of math-creativity. - What about sudden novas and comets? Sudden shifts in orbits? - Is the Moon moving away measurable compared to human history? As in, since humans started recording history, did the Moon appear to get 10% smaller or so? - How will history be able to correct the continuous conundrum of the accuracy of our forefathers' discoveries, inventions and ideas? Additionally, how can we as humans preserve this? - How did early civilizations explain supernovas? Did they understand it as a star exploding? How did they come to this conclusion? - "The stars are like the Sun, but far away." When said for the first time, this must have been crazy to hear for others. How often were ideas like these disregarded at first? How did researchers of this time convince society of their findings? - Is it possible that errors in translation have affected results of research? Are there any examples of this in history? - When was the first time anyone considered what the angle of our solar system's ecliptic is relative to the Milky Way's galactic plane? Apparently, the angle is about 60 degrees. - Why did science evolve so rapidly in the Western world? - What's there to say about alchemy in history? - Is that because ethical questions are fundamentally computationally irreducible questions? - How do you filter out the "good new" from the "bad new"? It's remarkable that old ideas stood the test of time.

Chaitin Maycott is the CEO and Founder of Demolition Marketing Leads, Ecoclaw, and Intuitive Earnings. He is passionate about helping small and medium-sized companies gain more leads and sales through the power of the Internet. His firms make marketing and sales campaigns fun and effective, with a variety of packages so that clients don't need to have a huge marketing budget to work with them. They identify real decision-makers and help clients develop relationships with these stakeholders to convert them into leads and sales. Better yet, they do it while freeing up time for clients to work on other aspects of their business. Chaitin's firm has helped many companies connect with and close leads, increasing their revenue month over month, all through the power of the Internet. . More about Chaitin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chaitin-maycott https://demolitionmarketingleads.com . . TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Highlights 00:41 - Intro 02:23- Conspiracy Theories 07:59 - Marketing Business 12:45 - Effective Way to Get Contacts 34:25 - The Puddle, The Pond & The Ocean 47:58 - Getting Sales 01:01:24 - Importance of a Community 01:14:07 - Running Your Own Race . .

YouTube link https://youtu.be/zMPnrNL3zsE Gregory Chaitin discusses algorithmic information theory, its relationship with Gödel incompleteness theorems, and the properties of Omega number.  Topics of discussion include algorithmic information theory, Gödel incompleteness theorems, and the Omega number. Listen now early and ad-free on Patreon https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal. Sponsors:  - Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!) - Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE - PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 - Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e - Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything - TOE Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch LINKS MENTIONED: - Meta Math and the Quest for Omega (Gregory Chaitin): https://amzn.to/3stCFxH - Visual math episode on Chaitin's constant: https://youtu.be/WLASHxChXKM - Podcast w/ David Wolpert on TOE: https://youtu.be/qj_YUxg-qtY - A Mathematician's Apology (G. H. Hardy): https://amzn.to/3qOEbtL - The Physicalization of Metamathematics (Stephen Wolfram): https://amzn.to/3YUcGLL - Podcast w/ Neil deGrasse Tyson on TOE: https://youtu.be/HhWWlJFwTqs - Proving Darwin (Gregory Chaitin): https://amzn.to/3L0hSbs - What is Life? (Erwin Schrödinger): https://amzn.to/3YVk8Xm - "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" (Alan Turing): https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/T... - "The Major Transitions in Evolution" (John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry): https://amzn.to/3PdzYci - "The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language" (John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry): https://amzn.to/3PeKFeM - Podcast w/ Stephen Wolfram on TOE: https://youtu.be/1sXrRc3Bhrs - Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel (Rebecca Goldstein): https://amzn.to/3Pf8Yt4 - Rebecca Goldstein on TOE on Godel's Incompleteness: https://youtu.be/VkL3BcKEB6Y - Gödel's Proof (Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman): https://amzn.to/3QX89q1 - Giant Brains, or Machines That Think (Edmund Callis Berkeley): https://amzn.to/3QXniYj - An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications (William Feller): https://amzn.to/44tWjXI TIMESTAMPS: - 00:00:00 Introduction - 00:02:27 Chaitin's Unconventional Self-Taught Journey - 00:06:56 Chaitin's Incompleteness Theorem and Algorithmic Randomness - 00:12:00 The Infinite Calculation Paradox and Omega Number's Complexity (Halting Probability) - 00:27:38 God is a Mathematician: An Ontological Basis - 00:37:06 Emergence of Information as a Fundamental Substance - 00:53:10 Evolution and the Modern Synthesis (Physics-Based vs. Computational-Based Life) - 01:08:43 Turing's Less Known Masterpiece - 01:16:58 Extended Evolutionary Synthesis and Epigenetics - 01:21:20 Renormalization and Tractability - 01:28:15 The Infinite Fitness Function - 01:42:03 Progress in Mathematics despite Incompleteness - 01:48:38 Unconventional Academic Approach - 01:50:35 Godel's Incompleteness, Mathematical Intuition, and the Platonic World - 02:06:01 The Enigma of Creativity in Mathematics - 02:15:37 Dark Matter: A More Stable Form of Hydrogen? (Hydrinos) - 02:23:33 Stigma and the "Reputation Trap" in Science - 02:28:43 Cold Fusion - 02:29:28 The Stagnation of Physics - 02:41:33 Defining Randomness: The Chaos of 0s and 1s - 02:52:01 The Struggles For Young Mathematicians and Physicists (Advice) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTQaFf7bwu4 This episode is simply the audio version of Dr. Zinner's interview with me, I encourage everyone to watch the video version and check out his YouTube channel Dr. Zinner has done interviews with numerous well known intellectuals, including Gregory Chaitin, who is mentioned in this episode. Here's a link to Dr. Zinner's interview with Chaitin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht3jxGPhHo8&t=5s

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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Solomonoff induction still works if the universe is uncomputable, and its usefulness doesn't require knowing Occam's razor, published by Christopher King on June 18, 2023 on LessWrong. Note: I don't think this idea is original, but I couldn't find a good post going over the implications. I used to think that Solomonoff induction was a bit arbitrary for the following reason: it assigned a 100% probability to the universe being computable. I'm pretty sure the universe is computable (ignoring randomness), but nowhere near 100% sure. Who's to say we won't find a halting oracle floating in space for no reason? That seems like a pretty simple hypothesis. Why the focus on recursive languages. You have to make some choice of how descriptions work (you can't assign positive probability to every infinite bit string), but that didn't change the feelings of arbitrariness. But then I realized this understanding of why to use Solomonoff induction is incorrect. We do not use it because of the physical church-turing thesis, we use it because of the original church-turing thesis: L.C.M.s [logical computing machines: Turing's expression for Turing machines] can do anything that could be described as ‘rule of thumb' or ‘purely mechanical'. - Alan Turing Because what matters is not whether the universe is computable, but whether our methods of reasoning are computable. Or in other words, whether the map is computable. Solomonoff's induction is at least as "good" as any computable inference method (up to a constant), regardless of the complexity of the universe. So if you, as a human, are trying to come up with a systematic way to predict things (even uncomputable things), Solomonoff's induction is better. Here is the precise statement: Theorem: Let D be some probability distributions on infinite sequences of bits such that inferring the next bit from a prefix is computable. The likelihood ratio from D to Solomonoff induction's prior is bounded above by some finite constant (despite the sequence containing infinitely many bits), and this constant is independent of the sequence of bits. Proof sketch: (Note: this is already a well-known result.) There is a program m that is a decoder for an entropy code over finite bit strings based on D. Given any finite bit string x, we can find a y such that m(y)=x. The length of y is approximately −log2(px) (where px is the probability of a bit string starting with x according to D). The probability of a string starting with x under Solomonoff induction's prior is greater than 2−|m(y)|=2−|m|2log2(px)=px2|m|. So regardless of the content or length of |x|, the ratio is bounded by 2|m| (which only depends on D). □ (Notice how we never invoked Occam's razor to argue that Solomonoff induction is superior. We can instead go the other way; Occam's razor is good because it's an informal version of an ideal inference procedure.) Solomonoff induction v.s. a human in an uncomputable world How does this shake out in an uncomputable universe? What if you're convinced that there is some orb in the universe emitting the digits of Chaitin's constant or something? We'll let Alice be a reasoner using Solomonoff induction, and Bob be a human. Bob: Ah yes, I have found it! An orb emitting the digits of Chaitin's constant is floating around in our solar system! Alice: How do you figure? Bob: I calculated the first two digits, and they matched! Alice: Surprising! But not that surprising (about six and half bits). Bob: I was surprised too, but now I can do something better than you. I can predict the digits that orb will emit. Alice: How do you plan to predict an uncomputable sequence, given that you're a human? Bob: Oh yeah... Alice: In fact, if you're correct it will eventually look like a uniformly random sequence to you since it is algorithmically random. So I'll be able...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Solomonoff induction still works if the universe is uncomputable, and its usefulness doesn't require knowing Occam's razor, published by Christopher King on June 18, 2023 on LessWrong. Note: I don't think this idea is original, but I couldn't find a good post going over the implications. I used to think that Solomonoff induction was a bit arbitrary for the following reason: it assigned a 100% probability to the universe being computable. I'm pretty sure the universe is computable (ignoring randomness), but nowhere near 100% sure. Who's to say we won't find a halting oracle floating in space for no reason? That seems like a pretty simple hypothesis. Why the focus on recursive languages. You have to make some choice of how descriptions work (you can't assign positive probability to every infinite bit string), but that didn't change the feelings of arbitrariness. But then I realized this understanding of why to use Solomonoff induction is incorrect. We do not use it because of the physical church-turing thesis, we use it because of the original church-turing thesis: L.C.M.s [logical computing machines: Turing's expression for Turing machines] can do anything that could be described as ‘rule of thumb' or ‘purely mechanical'. - Alan Turing Because what matters is not whether the universe is computable, but whether our methods of reasoning are computable. Or in other words, whether the map is computable. Solomonoff's induction is at least as "good" as any computable inference method (up to a constant), regardless of the complexity of the universe. So if you, as a human, are trying to come up with a systematic way to predict things (even uncomputable things), Solomonoff's induction is better. Here is the precise statement: Theorem: Let D be some probability distributions on infinite sequences of bits such that inferring the next bit from a prefix is computable. The likelihood ratio from D to Solomonoff induction's prior is bounded above by some finite constant (despite the sequence containing infinitely many bits), and this constant is independent of the sequence of bits. Proof sketch: (Note: this is already a well-known result.) There is a program m that is a decoder for an entropy code over finite bit strings based on D. Given any finite bit string x, we can find a y such that m(y)=x. The length of y is approximately −log2(px) (where px is the probability of a bit string starting with x according to D). The probability of a string starting with x under Solomonoff induction's prior is greater than 2−|m(y)|=2−|m|2log2(px)=px2|m|. So regardless of the content or length of |x|, the ratio is bounded by 2|m| (which only depends on D). □ (Notice how we never invoked Occam's razor to argue that Solomonoff induction is superior. We can instead go the other way; Occam's razor is good because it's an informal version of an ideal inference procedure.) Solomonoff induction v.s. a human in an uncomputable world How does this shake out in an uncomputable universe? What if you're convinced that there is some orb in the universe emitting the digits of Chaitin's constant or something? We'll let Alice be a reasoner using Solomonoff induction, and Bob be a human. Bob: Ah yes, I have found it! An orb emitting the digits of Chaitin's constant is floating around in our solar system! Alice: How do you figure? Bob: I calculated the first two digits, and they matched! Alice: Surprising! But not that surprising (about six and half bits). Bob: I was surprised too, but now I can do something better than you. I can predict the digits that orb will emit. Alice: How do you plan to predict an uncomputable sequence, given that you're a human? Bob: Oh yeah... Alice: In fact, if you're correct it will eventually look like a uniformly random sequence to you since it is algorithmically random. So I'll be able...

On today's ID the Future from the vault, we're pleased to feature a cross-post from our sister podcast Mind Matters. Here, host Robert J. Marks begins a conversation with trailblazing mathematician and computer scientist Gregory Chaitin. The two discuss Chaitin's beginnings in computer science, his growing up in the 1960s a stone's throw from Central Park, his thoughts on historic scientists in his field such as Leonard Euler and Kurt Gödel, and the story of Chaitin's thwarted meeting with the famed German-Austrian logician, mathematician, and philosopher. Also touched on: Gödel's ontological proof for the existence of God and how children can be said to have solved Chaitin's incompleteness problem! Source

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (04/25/2023): 3:05pm- According to a report from Daniel Chaitin of The Daily Wire, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has “subpoenaed an FBI executive in an escalation of an investigation into whistleblower allegations of politicization within the agency…House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee demanded information from law enforcement and intelligence leaders last year, at the time without subpoena power, and they released a report in November summarizing allegations of politicization in the Justice Department and FBI raised by ‘a multitude' of whistleblowers. Within the report were allegations concerning a ‘purge' of FBI employees holding conservative views, which has been linked to Moore and mentions issues related to former President Donald Trump.” You can read Chaitin's story in its entirety here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/jordan-subpoenas-fbi-executive-in-conservative-purge-inquiry 3:20pm- According to a report from Sneja Farberov of The New York Post, “Hunter Biden [the son of President Joe Biden] must attend all court hearings related to his ongoing Arkansas paternity case, a judge has ruled.” You can read more here: https://nypost.com/2023/04/25/hunter-biden-to-appear-in-arkansas-court-for-paternity-case/ 3:35pm- On Tuesday, President Joe Biden officially announced his plans to run for reelection in 2024 via a video posted to social media. In the 3-minute announcement, he condemns Republicans—claiming the rival political party is responsible for overturning Roe v. Wade, banning books, and suppressing voter participation. President Biden concludes the message by exclaiming “let's finish the job.” 3:50pm- In a new interview with The New York Times, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Dr. Anthony Fauci avoided taking responsibility for nation-wide locked downs during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, explaining: “show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did. I gave a public-health recommendation that echoed the C.D.C.'s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that.” You can read David Wallace-Wells' full interview with Dr. Fauci here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/24/magazine/dr-fauci-pandemic.html 4:05pm- According to Liz Wolf of Reason, Governor Kathy Hochul is considering a ban on all cigarette sales in New York. You can read Wolf's full editorial here: https://reason.com/2023/04/24/new-york-governor-gauging-support-for-full-ban-on-cigarette-sales/ 4:20pm- While speaking at the University of Ottawa with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed that he has “never forced anyone to get vaccinated.” However, several soundbites from last year indicate he is lying about his stance on mandatory vaccinations. 4:30pm- Switzerland-based Nestle, the world's largest food and drink manufacturer, has raised prices by nearly 10% over the last three months in response to inflationary pressure. 4:45pm- In a video that has gone viral on social media, a San Francisco-based Target has placed nearly all of its items behind locked glass as part of an effort to dissuade shoplifters. Earlier this month, The New York Times reported that roughly one-third of New York City's shoplifting was attributable to just 327 repeat offenders. Why are major cities no longer prosecuting theft? 4:50pm- In a recent New York Times opinion editorial, Brown University President Christina Paxson compared the church's suppression of Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei's theory of heliocentrism to the passage of bills throughout the United States limiting radical “equity” initiatives. 5:05pm- The Drive at 5: In response to concerns that Pennsylvania House Bill 300 could force doctors in the state to provide children with “gender affirming” care, which includes surgery and puberty blockers, State Representative Emily Kinkead confirmed that it would. 5:10pm- In response to Fox News' shocking decision to part ways with their prime-time host Tucker Carlson, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took to Instagram declaring “deplatforming works” and blaming Carlson for a majority of the death threats she has received. 5:20pm- On Monday, CNN announced they had fired long-time host Don Lemon. According to some reports, Lemon's explosive confrontation with Republican Presidential nominee Vivek Ramaswamy last week played a role in management's decision to end his contract. 5:35pm- Although Don Lemon is out at CNN, he already has an exciting job offer! Rapper Rick Ross took to social media and offered Lemon a job manning the grill at one of his numerous Wingstop locations. Ross insisted Lemon would still have to submit an application before officially being hired, however. 6:05pm- According to a report from Jessica Chasmar of Fox News, Secretary of State Antony Blinken communicated frequently via email with Hunter Biden. Chasmar writes, “the ties between Blinken and Hunter Biden could face increased scrutiny after former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell testified to the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees last week that Blinken, as President Biden's then-campaign senior adviser, ‘played a role in the inception' of the public statement signed by intelligence officials claiming Hunter's abandoned laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign just weeks before the 2020 presidential election.” You can read the full report here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blinken-wife-emailed-frequently-hunter-biden-raising-questions-role-laptop-cover-story 6:20pm- During her Tuesday press briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre accused Republicans of being responsible for chaos at the border and the subsequent prevalence of fentanyl throughout the United States. 6:30pm- While appearing on MSNBC, Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said “we cannot pretend” President Joe Biden's advanced age “is not on people's minds” heading into the 2024 presidential election. 6:40pm- During his visit to Tokyo, Japan, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spoke with Sean Hannity on Fox News—explaining that President Joe Biden's “weakness on the world stage” has “emboldened” China. 6:50pm- According to a report from Brooke Singman of Fox News, “[t]he ISIS-K terrorist who directed the August 2021 suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members during the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan has been killed by the Taliban.” You can read Singman's full article here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/isis-k-terrorist-who-directed-abbey-gate-suicide-bombing-killed-by-taliban-official

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: According to a report from Daniel Chaitin of The Daily Wire, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has “subpoenaed an FBI executive in an escalation of an investigation into whistleblower allegations of politicization within the agency…House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee demanded information from law enforcement and intelligence leaders last year, at the time without subpoena power, and they released a report in November summarizing allegations of politicization in the Justice Department and FBI raised by ‘a multitude' of whistleblowers. Within the report were allegations concerning a ‘purge' of FBI employees holding conservative views, which has been linked to Moore and mentions issues related to former President Donald Trump.” You can read Chaitin's story in its entirety here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/jordan-subpoenas-fbi-executive-in-conservative-purge-inquiry According to a report from Sneja Farberov of The New York Post, “Hunter Biden [the son of President Joe Biden] must attend all court hearings related to his ongoing Arkansas paternity case, a judge has ruled.” You can read more here: https://nypost.com/2023/04/25/hunter-biden-to-appear-in-arkansas-court-for-paternity-case/ On Tuesday, President Joe Biden officially announced his plans to run for reelection in 2024 via a video posted to social media. In the 3-minute announcement, he condemns Republicans—claiming the rival political party is responsible for overturning Roe v. Wade, banning books, and suppressing voter participation. President Biden concludes the message by exclaiming “let's finish the job.” In a new interview with The New York Times, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Dr. Anthony Fauci avoided taking responsibility for nation-wide locked downs during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, explaining: “show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did. I gave a public-health recommendation that echoed the C.D.C.'s recommendation, and people made a decision based on that.” You can read David Wallace-Wells' full interview with Dr. Fauci here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/24/magazine/dr-fauci-pandemic.html

An interview with Dr. Virginia Chaitin

Greg Chaitin is an eminent mathematician, logician, computer scientist, and a pioneer of metabiology.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: We Choose To Align AI, published by johnswentworth on January 1, 2022 on LessWrong. Epistemic status: poetry "We choose to go to the moon! We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize the best of our skills and energies. Because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win." - John F Kennedy WE CHOOSE TO ALIGN AI IN THIS DECADE AND DO THE OTHER THINGS JFK gave his “We choose to go to the moon!” speech in 1962. And when he said “in this decade”, he did not mean that we'd go to the moon before 1972. He meant we'd go to the moon before 1970. Happy 2022! When I say we choose to align AI in this decade, I don't mean before 2032. I mean before 2030. Maybe sooner if things go well. Do I think that's actually doable? Yes. Also fuck you. . and some other things! As long as we're shooting for the metaphorical moon, might as well throw aging in the mix too. That seems doable by 2030. NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE EASY, BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD Effective altruists talk a lot about “importance, neglectedness, and tractability”. The more important, neglected, and tractable a problem is, the more we should expect a high impact per unit of effort invested in it. The alignment problem scores through the roof on importance, and is still relatively neglected, but tractability is. um. not. I'm not really an EA, at heart. When there's low hanging fruit, I might pick it quickly and move on, or these days I might point it out to someone else and move on. Point is, the low hanging fruit is not what I'm here for. I'm here for the challenge. I study alignment and agency and the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. The more EAs I meet, the more I realize that wanting the challenge is a load-bearing pillar of sanity when working on alignment. When people first seriously think about alignment, a majority freak out. Existential threats are terrifying. And when people first seriously look at their own capabilities, or the capabilities of the world, to deal with the problem, a majority despair. This is not one of those things where someone says “terrible things will happen, but we have a solution ready to go, all we need is your help!”. Terrible things will happen, we don't have a solution ready to go, and even figuring out how to help is a nontrivial problem. When people really come to grips with that, tears are a common response. . but for someone who wants the challenge, the emotional response is different. The problem is terrifying? Our current capabilities seem woefully inadequate? Good; this problem is worthy. The part of me which looks at a rickety ladder 30 feet down into a dark tunnel and says “let's go!” wants this. The part of me which looks at a cliff face with no clear path up and cracks its knuckles wants this. The part of me which looks at a problem with no clear solution and smiles wants this. The response isn't tears, it's “let's fucking do this”. BECAUSE THAT GOAL WILL SERVE TO ORGANIZE THE BEST OF OUR SKILLS AND ENERGIES Why align an AI, rather than prove the Riemann hypothesis? Or calculate bits of Chaitin's constant - we know that's hard. When faced with a hard problem, there's this tendency to substitute easier problems, solve those instead, and call it progress. Riemann hypothesis is too hard, so we pick some other function which looks kinda similar, and prove things about it instead. And sometimes that is progress! But other times, people just end up goodhearting on the new problem instead. Alignment is a problem which needs to be solved. One day, reality will test us, and if we fail then it's game over. Substitute an easier problem instead, and reality will ignore our easier ...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: We Choose To Align AI, published by johnswentworth on January 1, 2022 on LessWrong. Epistemic status: poetry "We choose to go to the moon! We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize the best of our skills and energies. Because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win." - John F Kennedy WE CHOOSE TO ALIGN AI IN THIS DECADE AND DO THE OTHER THINGS JFK gave his “We choose to go to the moon!” speech in 1962. And when he said “in this decade”, he did not mean that we'd go to the moon before 1972. He meant we'd go to the moon before 1970. Happy 2022! When I say we choose to align AI in this decade, I don't mean before 2032. I mean before 2030. Maybe sooner if things go well. Do I think that's actually doable? Yes. Also fuck you. . and some other things! As long as we're shooting for the metaphorical moon, might as well throw aging in the mix too. That seems doable by 2030. NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE EASY, BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD Effective altruists talk a lot about “importance, neglectedness, and tractability”. The more important, neglected, and tractable a problem is, the more we should expect a high impact per unit of effort invested in it. The alignment problem scores through the roof on importance, and is still relatively neglected, but tractability is. um. not. I'm not really an EA, at heart. When there's low hanging fruit, I might pick it quickly and move on, or these days I might point it out to someone else and move on. Point is, the low hanging fruit is not what I'm here for. I'm here for the challenge. I study alignment and agency and the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. The more EAs I meet, the more I realize that wanting the challenge is a load-bearing pillar of sanity when working on alignment. When people first seriously think about alignment, a majority freak out. Existential threats are terrifying. And when people first seriously look at their own capabilities, or the capabilities of the world, to deal with the problem, a majority despair. This is not one of those things where someone says “terrible things will happen, but we have a solution ready to go, all we need is your help!”. Terrible things will happen, we don't have a solution ready to go, and even figuring out how to help is a nontrivial problem. When people really come to grips with that, tears are a common response. . but for someone who wants the challenge, the emotional response is different. The problem is terrifying? Our current capabilities seem woefully inadequate? Good; this problem is worthy. The part of me which looks at a rickety ladder 30 feet down into a dark tunnel and says “let's go!” wants this. The part of me which looks at a cliff face with no clear path up and cracks its knuckles wants this. The part of me which looks at a problem with no clear solution and smiles wants this. The response isn't tears, it's “let's fucking do this”. BECAUSE THAT GOAL WILL SERVE TO ORGANIZE THE BEST OF OUR SKILLS AND ENERGIES Why align an AI, rather than prove the Riemann hypothesis? Or calculate bits of Chaitin's constant - we know that's hard. When faced with a hard problem, there's this tendency to substitute easier problems, solve those instead, and call it progress. Riemann hypothesis is too hard, so we pick some other function which looks kinda similar, and prove things about it instead. And sometimes that is progress! But other times, people just end up goodhearting on the new problem instead. Alignment is a problem which needs to be solved. One day, reality will test us, and if we fail then it's game over. Substitute an easier problem instead, and reality will ignore our easier ...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Eliezer Yudkowsky Facts, published by steven0461 on the LessWrong. Eliezer Yudkowsky was once attacked by a Moebius strip. He beat it to death with the other side, non-violently. Inside Eliezer Yudkowsky's pineal gland is not an immortal soul, but another brain. Eliezer Yudkowsky's favorite food is printouts of Rice's theorem. Eliezer Yudkowsky's favorite fighting technique is a roundhouse dustspeck to the face. Eliezer Yudkowsky once brought peace to the Middle East from inside a freight container, through a straw. Eliezer Yudkowsky once held up a sheet of paper and said, "A blank map does not correspond to a blank territory". It was thus that the universe was created. If you dial Chaitin's Omega, you get Eliezer Yudkowsky on the phone. Unless otherwise specified, Eliezer Yudkowsky knows everything that he isn't telling you. Somewhere deep in the microtubules inside an out-of-the-way neuron somewhere in the basal ganglia of Eliezer Yudkowsky's brain, there is a little XML tag that says awesome. Eliezer Yudkowsky is the Muhammad Ali of one-boxing. Eliezer Yudkowsky is a 1400 year old avatar of the Aztec god Aixitl. The game of "Go" was abbreviated from "Go Home, For You Cannot Defeat Eliezer Yudkowsky". When Eliezer Yudkowsky gets bored, he pinches his mouth shut at the 1/3 and 2/3 points and pretends to be a General Systems Vehicle holding a conversation among itselves. On several occasions he has managed to fool bystanders. Eliezer Yudkowsky has a swiss army knife that has folded into it a corkscrew, a pair of scissors, an instance of AIXI which Eliezer once beat at tic tac toe, an identical swiss army knife, and Douglas Hofstadter. If I am ignorant about a phenomenon, that is not a fact about the phenomenon; it just means I am not Eliezer Yudkowsky. Eliezer Yudkowsky has no need for induction or deduction. He has perfected the undiluted master art of duction. There was no ice age. Eliezer Yudkowsky just persuaded the planet to sign up for cryonics. There is no spacetime symmetry. Eliezer Yudkowsky just sometimes holds the territory upside down, and he doesn't care. Eliezer Yudkowsky has no need for doctors. He has implemented a Universal Curing Machine in a system made out of five marbles, three pieces of plastic, and some of MacGyver's fingernail clippings. Before Bruce Schneier goes to sleep, he scans his computer for uploaded copies of Eliezer Yudkowsky. If you know more Eliezer Yudkowsky facts, post them in the comments. Thanks for listening. to help us out with the nonlinear library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.

Stephen Wolfram plays the role of Salonnière in this new, on-going series of intellectual explorations with special guests, this time specifically with Gregory Chaitin. Watch all of the conversations here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-conversations

Podcast Why Truth Requires Proof Is Culture Copyright2021.mp3PODCAST 120 WHY TRUTH REQUIRES PROOF IS CULTURE  is a textual analysis viewed through many lens which is grounded in numerous theories and captured and framed in podcast 120 and verbalized in 13 chapters of publication 231, in ISBN 978-976-96689-1-1.Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.” and there's your proof.” “Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive WORKS CITED  Alberto Vanzo, "Kant on the Nominal Definition of Truth", Kant-Studien, 101 (2010), pp. 147–66.Alexis G. Burgess and John P. Burgess (2011). Truth (hardcover) (1st ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14401-6. Retrieved October 4, 2014. a concise introduction to current philosophical debates about truthAlfred North Whitehead, Dialogues, 1954: Prologue.Alfred Tarski, Introduction to Logic and to the Methodology of the Deductive Sciences (ed. Jan Tarski). 4th Edition. Oxford Logic Guides, No. 24. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, xxiv + 229 pp. ISBN 0-19-504472-XAsay, Jamin. "Truthmaker Theory". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.Baudrillard's attribution of this quote to Ecclesiastes is deliberately fictional. "Baudrillard attributes this quote to Eccle-siastes. However, the quote is a fabrication (see Jean Baudrillard. Cool Memories III, 1991–95. London: Verso, 1997). Editor's note: In Fragments: Conversations With François L'Yvonnet. New York: Routledge, 2004:11, Baudrillard acknowledges this 'Borges-like' fabrication." Cited in footnote #4 in Smith, Richard G., "Lights, Camera, Action: Baudrillard and the Performance of Representations" Archived 2018-04-25 at the Wayback Machine, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 2, Number 1 (January 2005)Baudrillard, Jean. "Simulacra and Simulations", in Selected Writings Archived 2004-02-09 at the Wayback Ma-chine, ed. Mark Poster, Stanford University Press, 1988; 166 ffBeebee, Helen; Dodd, Julian. Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate. Clarendon Press. pp. 13–14.Chaitin, Gregory L., The Limits of Mathematics (1997) 1–28, 89 ff.Chaitin, Gregory L., The Limits of Mathematics (1997) esp. 89 ff.Cicéron, Marcus Tullius Cicero; Bouhier, Jean (1812). Tusculanes (in French). Nismes: J. Gaude. p. 273. OCLC 457735057.Compare 1 Thessalonians 5:21: "Prove all things [...]."Cupillari, Antonella. The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs. Academic Press, 2001. Page 3.David, Marion (2005). "Correspondence Theory of Truth" in Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyDefinition of digitization at WhatIs.comDefinition of proof | Dictionary.com". www.dictionary.com.Die Wahrheit ist die Bewegung ihrer an ihr selbst." The Phenomenology of Spirit, Preface, ¶ 48Digitization/digitisation" in Collins English DictionaryElliott Mendelson; Introduction to Mathematical Logic; Series: Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications; Hard-cover: 469 pages; Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC; 5 edition (August 11, 2009); ISBN 1-58488-876-8.Etymology, Online. "Online Etymology"Evidence, proof, and facts: a book of sources by Peter Murphy 2003 ISBN 0199261954 pages 1–2Foucault, M. "The Order of Things", London: Vintage Books, 1970 (1966)Garrido, Angel (2012). "A Brief History of Fuzzy Logic". Revista EduSoft., EditorialGittens, William  Anderson  Author, Cinematographer Dip.Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts SpecSupport the show (http://www.buzzsprout.com/429292)

Listen in as Robert J. Marks picks the mind of Professor Gregory Chaitin about Chaitin’s number – a number that has been called “mystical and magical”. How does this number work? Why do some people call it “Chaitin’s constant”? What is the usefulness of philosophizing in mathematics? Show Notes 00:27 | Introducing Gregory Chaitin and Chaitin’s number 01:32 | Chaitin’s… Source

Listen in as Robert J. Marks picks the mind of Professor Gregory Chaitin about Chaitin’s number – a number that has been called “mystical and magical”. How does this number work? Why do some people call it “Chaitin’s constant”? What is the usefulness of philosophizing in mathematics? Show Notes 00:27 | Introducing Gregory Chaitin and Chaitin’s number 01:32 | Chaitin’s… Source

What does it mean for something to be unknowable? Is creativity non-computable? Do all things have a level of consciousness? Jump into today’s podcast, where Robert J. Marks continues his discussion with Gregory Chaitin about mathematical theory and philosophy. Show Notes 00:23 | Introducing Gregory Chaitin 00:40 | What is unknowability? 06:07 | Does non-computable mean unknowable? 09:43 | A… Source

What does it mean for something to be unknowable? Is creativity non-computable? Do all things have a level of consciousness? Jump into today’s podcast, where Robert J. Marks continues his discussion with Gregory Chaitin about mathematical theory and philosophy. Show Notes 00:23 | Introducing Gregory Chaitin 00:40 | What is unknowability? 06:07 | Does non-computable mean unknowable? 09:43 | A… Source

In today’s ID the Future, we’re pleased to feature a cross-post from our sister site, Mind Matters. Here host Robert J. Marks begins a conversation with trailblazing mathematician and computer scientist Gregory Chaitin. The two discuss Chaitin’s beginnings in computer science, his growing up in the 1960s a stone’s throw from Central Park, his thoughts on historic scientists in his field such as Leonard Euler and Kurt Gödel, and the story of Chaitin’s cold calling the famed German-Austrian logician, mathematician, and philosopher, and how a snowstorm and Gödel’s quirky personality thwarted a meeting. Also touched on: Gödel’s ontological proof for the existence of God and how children can be said to have solved Chaitin’s incompleteness problem.  Image Credit: Kurt Gödel by Read More › Source

How are the fields of mathematics and academic research different today compared to years past? In this week’s podcast, Robert J. Marks and Gregory Chaitin discuss the challenges many mathematicians face today and the unfortunate trend toward bureaucracy that makes academic research difficult. Dropping names of mathematical geniuses past and present, they explore how technology and artificial intelligence are changing… Source

How are the fields of mathematics and academic research different today compared to years past? In this week’s podcast, Robert J. Marks and Gregory Chaitin discuss the challenges many mathematicians face today and the unfortunate trend toward bureaucracy that makes academic research difficult. Dropping names of mathematical geniuses past and present, they explore how technology and artificial intelligence are changing… Source

In the 1960s, mathematician and computer scientist Gregory Chaitin published a landmark paper in the field of algorithmic information theory in the Journal of the ACM – and he was only a teenager. Listen in as Robert J. Marks explores that paper with Chaitin, covering Chaitin’s definition of randomness and his philosophical interest in algorithmic information theory. Show Notes 00:27… Source

In the 1960s, mathematician and computer scientist Gregory Chaitin published a landmark paper in the field of algorithmic information theory in the Journal of the ACM – and he was only a teenager. Listen in as Robert J. Marks explores that paper with Chaitin, covering Chaitin’s definition of randomness and his philosophical interest in algorithmic information theory. Show Notes 00:27… Source

In this week’s Mind Matters episode, Robert J. Marks begins a conversation with mathematician and computer scientist Gregory Chaitin. The two discuss Chaitin’s beginnings in computer science, his thoughts on historic scientists in his field such as Leonard Euler and Kurt Gödel, and even the story of how a cold call to Gödel almost led to Chaitin meeting the famed… Source

In this week’s Mind Matters episode, Robert J. Marks begins a conversation with mathematician and computer scientist Gregory Chaitin. The two discuss Chaitin’s beginnings in computer science, his thoughts on historic scientists in his field such as Leonard Euler and Kurt Gödel, and even the story of how a cold call to Gödel almost led to Chaitin meeting the famed… Source

Chaitin the Founder & CEO of Results Magnet tells you how to scale your B2C service-based firm using digital ads. You can check him out at https://www.ResultsMagnet.com/

This episode, the third in a mini-series on Gaza, crosses the Gaza border to the Israeli communities that surround the Gaza Strip. It features a conversation with Julia Chaitin, a leader of Other Voice (Kol Acher), an peace movement that brings together Israeli peace activists who reach out to their neighbors in Gaza. The photo shows Chaitin at a weekly vigil of Other Voice, shortly after being attacked by right-wing bullies who threw hot coffee at her.  

  My guest today is Chaitin Maycott. Chaitin is an entrepreneur and founder of a few businesses. His current projects include a physical product called EcoClaw, Results Magnet which is a digital marketing agency, and Intuitive Earnings which helps people navigate one of the trickiest and newest segments in investing today, cryptocurrency. Chaitin and I got together to talk about his entrepreneurial journey, and of course we dove deep into our perspectives and opinions on psychology in business and life. This podcast was all over the place as far as subject matter, but it was a really fun and hilarious episode. I had a great time getting to know Chaitin. Make sure to follow him on LinkedIn and Facebook.   Listen on iTunes Listen on Google Play Listen on Soundcloud If you would like to support the podcast, please rate 5 stars and review on iTunes. Music by Calvin Kraakevik  

Neste episódio falarei um pouco sobre os conceitos matemáticos de compressibilidade, aleatoriedade e complexidade residentes na teoria da informação algorítmica desenvolvida principalmente pelos matemáticos Andrey Kolmogorov e Gregory Chaitin. Em particular, falarei sobre o problema do programa elegante de Chaitin, que nos permite concluir a incompletude em sistemas formais.

Neste episódio falarei um pouco sobre os conceitos matemáticos de compressibilidade, aleatoriedade e complexidade residentes na teoria da informação algorítmica desenvolvida principalmente pelos matemáticos Andrey Kolmogorov e Gregory Chaitin. Em particular, falarei sobre o problema do programa elegante de Chaitin, que nos permite concluir a incompletude em sistemas formais.

This episode is recorded live in front of an audience at theInternational Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP)2014 conference in Thessaloniki, Greece. The guests are four of the most interesting participants at that conference: Selmer Bringsjord, Gregory Chaitin, Mariarosaria Taddeo and Wilfried Sieg. They represent both diversity, all of them having quite different backgrounds and main research area, but they all have a common denominator in logic and formal methods. This forms the backdrop for many of our discussions, in addition to background stories, more or less strange side-projects as well as future hopes and desires. The whole thing was an experiment, but it worked out quite well. I can only hope that the recording can do some justice to the event.

This week I am delighted to welcome back to the show, the renowned mathematician and computer-scientist, Prof Gregory Chaitin. We discuss his new paper: 'Conceptual Complexity and Algorithmic Information', which details his thoughts on a new theory of the brain, and what it would mean for consciousness. We also talked about another passion of the Professor - low energy nuclear reactions, or as it is more commonly known, ‘Cold-Fusion’. In the past episodes, we've talked with a number of people about the coming energy and environmental crises. Now we get a chance to hear some positive news from the more eclectic end of the research spectrum. You can find the paper we discuss here: https://www.academia.edu/5793769/Conceptual_complexity_and_algorithmic_information The Professors website is here: https://ufrj.academia.edu/GregoryChaitin And you can find all his books over here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gregory-J.-Chaitin/e/B001HCZCA8/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1 Enjoy!

This week our guest is Dr. William Paul Cockshott, a reader in the Computer Science Department of Glasgow University. Paul was trained as an economist, then as a computer scientist, and he has made contributions to the fields of image compression, 3D television, and parallel compilers. He is also known for his work in applying econophysics to classical economics, the field of economic computability, and as the co-author of the book 'Towards a new Socialism', advocating for the more efficient and democratic planning of a complex economy. In this show we discuss the origins of classical political economy, and how it was influenced by the rapid advances in the world of physics. We talk of the importance of Watt and his steam engine, the development of the theories of thermodynamics and entropy, and their importance in economy. The work of Babbage and Alan Turing also get a mention, as well as the human as universal robot. We also discuss the overwhelming empirical evidence for Marx’s Labor Theory of Value, why it is that it works, and the importance of the work of previous guest Prof. Gregory Chaitin in the modern factory. Oh yes, and some roman pottery, chinese crossbows from the Qin Dynasty, and how difficult it is to fold your clothes. Enjoy! You can find his books, talks, and research on his website here: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc/reports/index.html

This weeks episode sees a much needed change in focus - be gone all that talk of capitalist exploitation and systemic failure! Today we talk with world renowned mathematician, computer scientist, and philosopher Professor Gregory Chaitin about his latest work. Prof. Chaitin has spent the last number of years trying to come up with a mathematical proof of the power of evolution - how evolutionary randomness is practically as good as divine creation! Amazing stuff, indeed. During this work, he came to the realisation that the standard theory of evolutionary genetics is probably completely wrong, and discusses the latest revolutionary thoughts in the field of biology. We also discuss Gödel's seminal 'incompleteness' theorem, it's far reaching implications for philosophy, spirituality, and epistemology. Von Neumann's Theory of Cellular Automata and Turing's work on the computer also get a mention, and we finish with Professor Chaitin's hope for a mathematical theory of consciousness. Quite a heady mix. Please don't be scared off by the talk of theorems - you will likely miss an interview with one of the true intellectual giants of our time. You can buy Professor Chaitins new work here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Proving-Darwin-Biology-Mathematical-ebook/dp/B006E512HU And here is the full back catalogue of the Professors writings: (much recommended) http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Gregory%20J.%20Chaitin&search-alias=books-uk Enjoy!

A conversation with Greg Chaitin, creator of Chaitin's Omega and author, most recently, of MetaMath!! These ideas are well worth a close listen.