I mostly felt compelled to actually sign in and comment because I wanted to point out that designating something as “[t]he opinion of folks at Singularity Institute” or the like is often an annoying simplification/inaccuracy that allows people to thenceforth feel justified in using their social cognition to model a group roughly as they would a person.
They’re ad hoc, we’ve used one for a dual n-back study which ended up yielding insufficient data....We didn’t study long enough to get any statistically significant data. Like, not even close....really, there’s no information there, no matter how much Bayes magic you use
So at least your memory has been consistent over the last 9 months.
This definitely agrees with my memory, too...
I mostly felt compelled to actually sign in and comment because I wanted to point out that designating something as “[t]he opinion of folks at Singularity Institute” or the like is often an annoying simplification/inaccuracy that allows people to thenceforth feel justified in using their social cognition to model a group roughly as they would a person.
When I asked back in September 2010, you said
So at least your memory has been consistent over the last 9 months.