I don’t want to learn from Larry Page. I want the Singularity University and associated endeavors to be pushed. We won’t have particular domains to worry about (thus, the General in AGI). No picking and choosing from Buffett or Einstein. I suppose this and overcomingbias before aren’t supposed to be too caught up in singularity thinking, though.
Lojban
Reddit has a slick iPhone application, which may be portable. It’s based more on browsing websites, though. Something along the lines may be possible.
Thanks! I’ll look up the process to perhaps raise the issues myself.
There are more basic desires as well. The warm fuzzy feeling may go towards attracting the opposite sex. I had my testosterone reduced, first through drugs, and then through castration. Did I overcome biases and become “less wrong”? Yes, I did. Any questions are welcome.
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Hmm, so “testosterone” and the “s” word are out?
I don’t care too much about karma, but maybe you do. I’ll try to reach you (under an assumed name of course!).
I have lowered testosterone via drugs then castration.
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I am less wrong.
To lower testosterone.
I can expand more. I don’t think I have to detail how many men became less rational because of testosterone. Besides the distractions of the preferred sex, there are more subtle “zen-like” qualities of the state. I’ll have likely more to say about the forbidden topic in regards to this state as well.
I have no testicles by choice.
Voted up. Tradition is annoying.
There is a small community of us (eunuch.org being one place I visited). I did my research, and got what I expected. I’ll have more to say.
Do we have any transexuals here? As a eunuch, I became more rational. I’ve tried testosterone replacement as well, with mixed results.
Look, I haven’t had the chance to really put together the whole story. I try to at least by somewhat on-topic.
I think you are referring to Eliezer Yudkowsky.
The “S” word is banned until May, but may I bring up the “T” word? Transhumanism, and ultimately posthumanism, will not have the notion of gender—I am certain of that. I have been at varying levels of testosterone following castration, and I cannot say the difference leads to any insight. I prefer to be at low testosterone most of the time just like I prefer to be at low blood-alcohol level most of the time. OK, another short comment, but I can only hope I offered something insightful that most cannot.
I’ve used androcur to reduce (a new one reducer was released recently) and androgel to increase. Removal of the testicles brought the level to near zero (adrenals produce some I think).
Yes.
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Hi Eliezer, I had fun at the 2008 summit and the following OB afterdinner. The one issue I had that seems shared with Reddit is that there are no guidelines for password entry on sign-up. I put in a one-character password and it just said “invalid”.