The next time you give your talk, record it, and put it on YouTube.
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If you type a lot, buy a mechanical keyboard.
Thanks for the info. I didn’t know they were anti-vaxxers.
Can you be more specific?
No one wants to be in the control group.
Rather than spending time reading about autism you can probably better help this child by playing with him and doing stuff for his parents so they have more time to play with him, although ignore this advice if you enjoy reading about autism and so your doing so isn’t a cost.
This is very good advice.
UPDATED: It has been pointed out that Autism Speaks still funds research looking for the supposed link to vaccines! People have resigned over this. Do not give your money to this organization.
Some books on autism:
The Out-of-Sync Child (Kranowitz)
More Than Words by Sussman (The Hanen Centre)
There is also the 100 Day Kit from Autism Speaks.
The Autism Speaks 100 Day Kit and the Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism Tool Kit were created specifically for newly diagnosed families to make the best possible use of the 100 days following their child’s diagnosis of autism or AS/HFA.
You’re right. There is a lot of mis-information out there about autism. The problem isn’t you’re a non-expert. It’s that the “experts” really don’t know.
You can’t do controlled studies. You can’t say to one parent, “Give Jonny OT, but don’t give him speech therapy or ABA (or horse therapy), and come back in 10 years,” and tell another parent, “Just give Jonny horse therapy.”
That said, a mainstream view is forming. Get speech therapy to help with pragmatics. Get some form of behavioral therapy (ABA, RDI, etc.) Get occupational therapy to help with sensory. Don’t try to do all of this on your own. You want good therapists.
A bad therapist is worse than no therapist. Until you’ve had a few, it can be hard to tell these apart. There are a lot of bad therapists.
Some other generally accepted good uses your of money (probably!), include:
some form of behavioral intervention at home (ABA, RDI, etc.)
some form of behavioral intervention at school
Depending on the part of the world in which you live, the school component might be free. You would do well to keep in mind that free is not be the same as good, or even appropriate. (Remember: No bad therapists!)
I would also get the child in to see a developmental peditrician to create a treatment plan. Your pediatrician probably knows less about autism than you do. You want a specialist.
There are lots of other things you can try, but it’s best to think of these as unproven/highly experimental. I, myself, would probably add another hour of OT or speech (or create a cash buffer) before trying anything else.
Can you elaborate on your reason for choosing CI? Was it driven by reasons other than cost?
Installing Arch Linux.
Are you planning to provide training for people who are already running meetups?
It levels the playing field for those who use non-standard layouts.
For anyone who has ever argued over mechanical-switch and buckling-spring keyboards, made the hard choice between vi and Emacs, or manually reassigned a capslock key to control: this is for you.
They are also available in EPub and Kindle.
The cryonics approach advocated by Eliezer Yudkowsky has several serious conceptual and theoretical problems, and is not accepted by most people. People have ignored it, not because it is indisputable, but because people have not bothered to criticize it.
Edit: Yeah, this was meant as a quote.
The question is whether “AGI researchers” are experts on “AI safety”. If the answer is “yes”, we should update in their direction simply because they are experts. But if the situation is like mine, then Pei Wang is committing argumentum ad populum. Not only should we not pay attention, we should point this out to him.
Wouldn’t it be easier to implement it as web application? Then you only need one code base and a browser and it works on all those platforms. Distribution is easy. You just email a URL. Updates would be local and wouldn’t need to be distributed at all.
maxmore, since you’re here, I have a question:
How much life insurance do I need?
The cost for whole body is $200,000. So do I need $200,000 or do I need what it costs at time of death? Historical data says the cost doubles every 20 years.
I think when you have a question that fits the first three criteria, it always devolves into mindkilling. (Operating systems are a good example.)
The only time this doesn’t happen is when the question is not popular/important. If you want to find an example, you’re going to have to let go of either #2 or #5.
It depends what you mean by ‘God’.
How is this to be interpreted? With or without the aid of cryonics?