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Eric Holloway
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November 5, 2018
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Human intelligence as a halting oracle

Jonathan Bartlett proposes to model the human mind as a halting oracle
Eric Holloway
November 5, 2018
Machine Learning, Natural Intelligence
A common objection to Bartlett’s idea is that humans cannot be halting oracles because we embed any unsolvable math problem as the halting condition for a loop and a human cannot tell us whether the loop will halt or not. This objection misses the fact that there is a range of oracles between plain Turing machines and a complete halting oracle. Read More ›
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Eric Holloway
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October 16, 2018
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Does information theory support design in nature?

William Dembski makes a convincing case, using accepted information theory principles relevant to computer science
Eric Holloway
October 16, 2018
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence
Intelligent design theory is sometimes said to lack any practical application. One straightforward application is that, because intelligence can create information and computation cannot, human interaction will improve computational performance. Read More ›
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Eric Holloway
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September 19, 2018
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Artificial intelligence is impossible

Meaningful information vs artificial intelligence
Eric Holloway
September 19, 2018
Artificial Intelligence
Because the law of independence conservation states that no combination of randomness and determinism can create mutual information, then likewise no Turing machine nor artificial intelligence can create mutual information. Thus, the goal of artificial intelligence researchers to reproduce human intelligence with a computer program is impossible to achieve. Read More ›
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Eric Holloway
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September 4, 2018
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Slaughterbots: How far is too far?

And how will we know if we have crossed a line?
Eric Holloway
September 4, 2018
Ethics, Machine Learning, Social Factors
A greater focus should be on restoring the foundations of our nation over building superweapons. And the key foundation is all human beings' right to life. Read More ›
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Eric Holloway
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August 15, 2018
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Could One Single Machine Invent Everything?

The king’s perpetual innovation machine was all ready to roll but then a skeptic butted in
Eric Holloway
August 15, 2018
Artificial Intelligence
Computers can never originate, they only regurgitate. Humans, on the other hand, can come up with original ideas, i.e. they write the programs in the first place. So, my proof shows that the human mind cannot be a computer program. Read More ›