Hello!
I’m getting into the Bay area this afternoon for the CFAR workshop starting tomorrow. I’m looking for advice on how to spend the time and also where might be a good place to look for affordable lodging for one evening.
I’d initially thought about crashing at the Piedmont house hostel as it’s cheap and close enough that I could visit CFAR before heading over tomorrow, but it appears to be sold out. I figured there are probably folks here who know the area or have visited, so I didn’t see any harm in asking for info, or checking to see if anyone was getting up to anything.
:) Kim
I joined a while ago but don’t think I ever posted here. I’d lurked for quite some time here and at various blogs a degree or so separation away since before that. I’ve mostly link-hopped my way around the sequences and various pieces of fiction and followed folks on facebook and recently realized we had a local LW meetup. I’m happy to answer any questions about me, but never really know what kind of information would be relevant to put in an introductory post, so instead I thought I’d make a proposal instead:
I’ve seen (for a while) a lot of activity regarding AI / Singularities / Existential Risk within these groups of people. For my own part, I have pretty much no background knowledge when it comes to that. So I was looking to really dig into the book Superintelligence as a way to get a rudimentary understanding of it all.
That said, I find that I definitely get a lot more out of learning when I have people to discuss it with. So, with a bit of encouragement, since this is the “get-to-know-you” thread, I figured I’d to put a call out on here to see if there was anyone who might be interested in reading (or re-reading) the book along with me being skype buddies for this process.
My current plan is to go through it a chapter at a time and discuss / do further research / etc before moving on. Message me if that sounds like something you might be interested in doing!
~Kim