I will definitely be doing this. Anybody wanna form a study group?
hankx7787
Karma: −184
Surely HPMOR counts, too?
this.
I just did a google for “free private chat rooms” and came here:
How about we try that?
it’s always run slow for me. not page timeouts slow, but still, very slow relative to everywhere else on the web.
“Sorry Arthur, but I’d guess that there is an implicit rule about announcement of an AI-driven singularity: the announcement must come from the AI, not the programmer. I personally would expect the announcement in some unmistakable form such as a message in letters of fire written on the face of the moon.”—Dan Clemmensen, SL4
“There are lots of people who think that if they can just get enough of something, a mind will magically emerge. Facts, simulated neurons, GA trials, proposition evaluations/second, raw CPU power, whatever. It’s an impressively idiotic combination of mental laziness and wishful thinking.”—Michael Wilson
“In the universe where everything works the way it common-sensically ought to, everything about the study of Artificial General Intelligence is driven by the one overwhelming fact of the indescribably huge effects: initial conditions and unfolding patterns whose consequences will resound for as long as causal chains continue out of Earth, until all the stars and galaxies in the night sky have burned down to cold iron, and maybe long afterward, or forever into infinity if the true laws of physics should happen to permit that. To deliberately thrust your mortal brain onto that stage, as it plays out on ancient Earth the first root of life, is an act so far beyond “audacity” as to set the word on fire, an act which can only be excused by the terrifying knowledge that the empty skies offer no higher authority.”—Eliezer Yudkowsky
Wow, that’s a productive attitude. I think they should get rid of the down vote like Facebook.
survey taken..!
me too
Meetup : Atlanta Less Wrong Meetup
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Meetup : Next Atlanta Less Wrong Meetup
If you can, come prepared to discuss the first five articles in the sequence Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions.
If you can’t, that’s fine too, still do come!
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Mysterious_Answers_to_Mysterious_Questions
1.1 Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences)
1.2 Belief in Belief
1.3 Bayesian Judo
1.4 Professing and Cheering
1.5 Belief as Attire
erm, this isn’t rationality… this is poisonous cynicism.
You might want to post this over at the Immortality Institute (http://imminst.org/). They recently created a multivitamin using community input, so all of this has been discussed over and over again there already.
You totally remind me of the “aliens guy”: http://files.sharenator.com/ancient_aliens_guy_RE_Cool_Story_Bro-s553x484-241806.jpg
evidently less wrong lacks a sense of humor :P
I’m starting a new Less Wrong meetup group in Atlanta, Georgia.
I created a google group to help get this organized, so join via the link below, or send me an email on gmail, I am hankx7787 there.
http://groups.google.com/group/atlanta-less-wrong-meetup-group
I haven’t decided on a meeting place yet, but it will probably be in the midtown / Georgia Tech area, depending on who shows interest.
Some potential discussion topics:
Tell your rationalist success/failure stories, Basics of rationality, Cognitive biases, The sequences, Decision theory, Friendly AI, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality