It is hard to follow your post: the title is not informative, and the whole post lacks some of the elements of structure that help other readers to understand its purpose. One of the biggest problems I had in reading your post is that you reproduce a lot of the content of JonahSinick’s post without clear attribution, making modifications here and there. And weaving in the Steve Jobs stuff without an obvious purpose. I see some explanation is given in your comments on the original post but that context is totally missing here.
And the last paragraph seems like a strange, slightly awkward invitation to partake in conventionally illicit activities at the conference you’re attending soon. If the whole post is a long invitation “come party with me” it might be rephrased more effectively.
My post was not really designed to be followed, but more to use the collective makeup of LW as a human computational cluster / search engine / associative memory. I actually got a real response (ChristianKI), which I’m very happy about. I guess SolveIt can ban me if he really wants. (A guy named ‘SolveIt’. People make themselves less human supposedly to benefit others—is it artificial intelligence or just people pretending they’re intelligent? is gwern a robot? o_O)
The last paragraph was just brain-dumping my expectations for the conference. I was a bit off the mark. No sex and very little music, although there was a lot of alcohol and people shouting at each other. I’m guessing no LW’er besides me would consider it anything other than a waste of time.
There was also the question before Jobs’s quote: when can an AI self-modify safely, or when can a human legally do mind-altering substances? Maybe there was an answer in the AIXI series; I didn’t really get an answer at the conference, although I did see various effects of alcohol first-hand.
It is hard to follow your post: the title is not informative, and the whole post lacks some of the elements of structure that help other readers to understand its purpose. One of the biggest problems I had in reading your post is that you reproduce a lot of the content of JonahSinick’s post without clear attribution, making modifications here and there. And weaving in the Steve Jobs stuff without an obvious purpose. I see some explanation is given in your comments on the original post but that context is totally missing here.
And the last paragraph seems like a strange, slightly awkward invitation to partake in conventionally illicit activities at the conference you’re attending soon. If the whole post is a long invitation “come party with me” it might be rephrased more effectively.
My post was not really designed to be followed, but more to use the collective makeup of LW as a human computational cluster / search engine / associative memory. I actually got a real response (ChristianKI), which I’m very happy about. I guess SolveIt can ban me if he really wants. (A guy named ‘SolveIt’. People make themselves less human supposedly to benefit others—is it artificial intelligence or just people pretending they’re intelligent? is gwern a robot? o_O)
The last paragraph was just brain-dumping my expectations for the conference. I was a bit off the mark. No sex and very little music, although there was a lot of alcohol and people shouting at each other. I’m guessing no LW’er besides me would consider it anything other than a waste of time.
There was also the question before Jobs’s quote: when can an AI self-modify safely, or when can a human legally do mind-altering substances? Maybe there was an answer in the AIXI series; I didn’t really get an answer at the conference, although I did see various effects of alcohol first-hand.