I hereby nominate this for the 2012 Understatement Award.
How was it an understatement?
I acknowledge that it feels like one when you read it, but defining that way lies madness! Just ask the words “ironic” and “literally”.
MichaelHoward
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Could I suggest a more descriptive title? “Singularity Summit 2012” sounds like it’s an announcement from the organizers, or for discussion about the summit in general.
Does anyone know what happened?
Why did the internet stop working
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
suppose E.Y. were to post, for whatever reason (cat jumping on keyboard?)...
This happened once (F12 was mapped to that set of keystrokes at the time).
Thanks, I already plugged them :)
Should we add a point to these quote posts, that before posting a quote you should check there is a reference to it’s original source or context? Not necessarily to add to the quote, but you should be able to find it if challenged.
wikiquote.org seems fairly diligent at sourcing quotes, but Google doesn’t rank it highly in search results compared to all the misattributed, misquoted or just plain made up on the spot nuggets of disinformation that have gone viral and colonized Googlespace lying in wait to catch the unwary (such as apparently myself).
Hmm. There are hundreds of thousands of pages asserting that he said it but for some reason I can’t find a single reference to it’s context.
Thanks. Have edited the quote.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
-- [Edit: Probably not] Albert Einstein
2 out of 5 Quibbloniacs accuse you of Taste Projection Fallacy, and 1 out of 10 Squiddoolies find you guilty.
Your cruel and unusual punishment… The Squiddoolies also say White Chocolate is not really ‘chocolate’ at all because it doesn’t contain any cocoa solids.
+1. Pyongyang just admitted to their own people that their rocket launch failed. Could this be a sign of the start of something significant?
Michael Vassar’s advice: “Find something that inside view says you’ll definitely succeed at, and outside view says you’ll definitely fail it. Do it and see what caused the discrepancy.”
Please could you link to this? I want to read the background to it but can’t find anything like it via google.
I think today’s xkcd is more relevant. Has anyone good figures on what’s spent on things like cryonics research, or rational attempts to improve humanity’s rationality, or maybe existential risk reduction, trying to save the future of the next several billion years and 100 million galaxies, to compare with the stuff on this chart?
I tried in FF 8.0
I’m using Firefox 8.0, but on a mac.
If you link to the page instead of the image, it’ll save everyone googling it for the mouseover.
Or, put the mouseover text in quotes after the http bit of the link like I did above.
Clippy’s atoms have been used to make recursive spirals. For science!
I found a picture, and not many agreed with my views below, so here it is.
I wanted to leave this, but it’s been preying on my mind. I’m sure you meant well & with the upvotes it’s getting I’m probably misreading it so hopefully someone will correct my perceptions.
In context of what it was answering, to me it reads “Non-rich readers, your donation’s not really needed at FHI and FutureTech, fund us instead!”
Score one for my new LW-gained instinct for dragging things I really don’t want to think about into the open and throwing a spotlight on them.
I know SIAI specifically gains benefit from having a certain amount of money come from smaller donors. If there is real utility being misplaced here, and I imagine those directly involved with SIAI or FHI might not be able to bring up the subject for obvious reasons, the rest of us need to take the initiative and talk about it.
If this is something that Really Must Not Be Spoken, someone from SIAI send me a PM, I’ll trust your judgement & delete this comment no questions asked.
Have you looked separately at the predictions made about milestones that have now happened (e.g. beat Grand Master/respectable amateur at Jeopardy!/chess/driving/backgammon/checkers/tic-tac-toe/WWII) for comparison with the future/AGI predictions?
I’m especially curious about the data for people who have made both kinds of prediction, what correlations are there, and how the predictions of things-still-to-come look when weighted by accuracy of predictions of things-that-happened-by-now.