Aaronneyer

Cease & Desist in 3 days.

I clicked this because my name is Aaron and stayed around because it was such a captivating story all the way through to the end.

Even if that's true, 2 years is a huge amount of time to make real impact right now. By 2 years, we could have a clear winner of the AGI/ASI race.

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Haha nope, I was half expecting this to be the full text log from Twitch Plays Pokemon, and was like "Man, that's about to be one big ass text file..."

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I'd be really interested to see someone take the research they did here, and extend the survey to various different cultures. Right now, this model will give you a prediction of how a sample of 244 danes will perceive your face, which may be at least somewhat representative of the danish population, but likely not too much beyond that.

It should be easy enough to survey people from different cultures and countries, and feed those surveys into the model, to get a more accurate representation. You could even take that, and have a global model, as well as different models based on cultures, to get things like "This is how you will be perceived by most people in the southern united states".

Someone just posted this quote in the comments on the Amazon Dash, and I thought it fitting for this thread as well.

Harper's Magazine, September 1996:

> From an interview with Kurt Vonnegut in the November 1995 issue of Inc. Technology. Vonnegut was asked to discuss his feelings about living in an increasingly computerized world.

>> I work at home, and if I wanted to, I could have a computer right by my bed, and I'd never have to leave it. But I use a typewriter, and afterward I mark up the pages with a pencil. Then I call up this woman named Carol out in Woodstock and say, “Are you still doing typing?” Sure she is, and her husband is trying to track bluebirds out there and not having much luck, and so we chitchat back and forth, and I say, “Okay, I'll send you the pages.” Then I go down the steps and my wife calls, “Where are you going?” “Well,” I say, “I'm going to buy an envelope.” And she says, “You're not a poor man. Why don't you buy a thousand envelopes? They'll deliver them, and you can put them in the closet.” And I say, “Hush.” So I go to this newsstand across the street where they sell magazines and lottery tickets and stationery. I have to get in line because there are people buying candy and all that sort of thing, and I talk to them. The woman behind the counter has a jewel between her eyes, and when it's my turn, I ask her if there have been any big winners lately. I get my envelope and seal it up and go to the postal convenience center down the block at the corner of Forty-seventh Street and Second Avenue, where I'm secretly in love with the woman behind the counter. I keep absolutely poker-faced; I never let her know how I feel about her. One time I had my pocket picked in there and got to meet a cop and tell him about it. Anyway, I address the envelope to Carol in Woodstock. I stamp the envelope and mail it in a mailbox in front of the post office, and I go home. And I've had a hell of a good time. I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different.

A bit of a reminder that we don't have to be overly efficient about everything we do. Instead we can simply stay mindful and just enjoy whatever it is we are doing, even if it is waiting in line to buy an envelope, or waiting for the coffee to brew.

Looks like they might finish the Gigafactory by 2016: http://www.hybridcars.com/gigafactory-could-open-ahead-of-sc...

I've actually been doing that on and off since I think around last August. I've found it tremendously beneficial to overall feeling of well being, as well as my work ethic. Especially for programming, I feel much more involved and interested in my work so am usually able to work at a much faster pace. I also share the feeling of being more personable on LSD, as the days when I do microdose, I tend to have far better and deeper conversations with many of my friends.

Will be interesting to see how this announcement effects the price of bitcoins. I would imagine there will be an initial drop out of panic, but if we see some wealthy individuals with a vested interest in bitcoin buying these up, it could very much cause a large shift upwards in price.

It's awesome that these kinds of studies are finally able to happen again.

Scientists had already determined the usefulness of LSD and other psychedelics in Psychotherapy of this sort back in 1950 (http://www.psymon.com/psychedelia/articles/busch.htm), but since the controlled substance act in 1970, it hasn't been possible to do any real science in this area. Good to see this finally starting to change.

Looks like my handwriting

So much fun, great to see how people work together to help each other win.

I gave up on the one where you had to squeeze through a bunch of narrow red pathways, it's not so easy on a trackpad.

Dogs have been bred to perform these tasks, but they've also evolved to become dependent on humans. If humans had never entered the situation, who knows where the intelligence of other animals would be.

Comparing intelligence in animals is such a hard thing to do when we barely understand it in ourselves. As they say in the article, we frequently consider dolphins more intelligent because they are more sociable and exhibit similar characteristics to us.

An easy (although not necessarily correct) way to define intelligence could just be the ability to learn, although even this can be hard to define. Some animals can learn fast, while others have a larger space in their memory. As was pointed out, dogs are able to learn significantly more words and more complex phrasing than other animals, but at the same time they have been conditioned for a very very long time to understand human voices, dolphins much less so.

Dolphins are in a completely different environment, which results in completely different conditioning. Perhaps the reason they seem similar to us is because they are in a similar place in their environment. They're fairly independent species, not relying too heavily on other species, or being heavily preyed on by other animals. This could allow their brains to evolve in a similar way to ours, which aligns with our definition of intelligence.

Looks like they might have blocked this one now as well, I'm getting undefined passenger rating.

Location: Varies (Currently between Cleveland, OH/Oxford, OH/San Francisco, CA)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Temporarily, but needs to be remote longterm.

Technologies: Ruby. Rails, mostly backend, a bit of frontend. JS. Python. Git, vim + the usual Unix dev environment.

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I'm a student at Case Western currently finishing up my last year. I've done Rails development at MIM Software and causes.com, and was an SRE at Google, developing mainly in Python and Java, with a bit of Ruby as well. At Case, I've helped to run ACM and Hacker Society, putting on conferences and hackathons to get more students actively developing on their own personal projects.

After graduation, I'm planning to travel the world, and am looking for a job with flexibility in where I can work so that I can accomplish that. I'd be especially interested in somewhere where I would get to work with data (Crawling, mining, processing, etc...) or with Quantified Self, which is my current passion (Currently developing a personal website to centralize a lot of my data to better quantify my life).

Is there any chance in functionality with the new version or is it just the prettier search page?

Interesting article. Any particular reason for resurfacing it now?

It's still taught for our architecture class at Case Western

It's just simple binary, representing the days, hours, minutes, seconds

Ya, I would pretty much echo all of this.

I used to almost always pull out my phone all the time, either when I felt a vibration, but it was just some spam notification that didn't matter, or I just thought I felt a vibration, or I was just checking if I had gotten any notifications. Now I can just take a quick glance at my wrist, and leave my phone in my pocket. I'm also almost never late with seeing texts/messages/emails, which means I can respond to them more immediately.

Looks like they're taking a lot of what they've built for Google Glass, and moved it to a watch form factor, which should give it a much better chance of success.

I personally have been wearing a pebble for over 6 months now and it's one of the best purchases I've ever made. I don't see myself ever not owning a smart watch again and I'm really excited to see what Google can do with this.

This articles about a month old now. I'm curious if anything has changed with regards to this now that they have a new CEO.