Johan Wästlund
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Gödel, free will, and the perils of running a red light for the hell of it.
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(Related to an earlier blog post on Newcomb’s paradox.) Imagine you are a self-driving car with general intelligence on human or super-h...
Monday, November 19, 2018
Stalemate ftw!?
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Today, Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana are about to play their eighth game of the world chess championship match. So far, seven draws. ...
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Legenden om problem 6
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Youtube föreslog att jag skulle titta på en video om The Legend of Question Six . Jag insåg snart att jag hade hört talas om detta supersvår...
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Hoppas på 7-1 även i år!
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När man pratar om 7-1-segern 2014 tänker väl särskilt tysklandsvännerna på fotboll, och på semifinalen i VM 2014 där tyskarna spelade skjort...
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Humanity's last outpost (on the chess board)
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In the last five years or so, there's been a revolution in artificial intelligence. Before that, it used to be that computers were good ...
Monday, April 30, 2018
Paradox of records
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Which is harder to beat, an old record or a new one? The old one hasn't been beaten for a long time, so is obviously difficult to beat. ...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Perpetuum mobile drinking game
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Let's imagine we're in a pub in some sort of Pippi Långstrump universe where (1) money comes in the form of physical coins that you ...
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