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Re:Neuroevolution of Self-Interpretable Agents on Thursday March 19, 2020 @02:35AM (#22625092)
A twitter thread with a short summary of this paper from the author: https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1240444144704557056
Re:Eyewitnesses describe brutal beatings by HK police on Monday September 09, 2019 @01:50AM (#20915518)
Why did this story get flagged? I found it interesting and learned a bit more about the topic.
Re:Restrict use of riot-control chemicals on Friday September 06, 2019 @01:23AM (#20893304)
Re:On Going Feral (2009) on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:45PM (#19670715)
“Cloudworker lifestyles — mobile, home-based, unshaven, pajama-clad and Starbucks-swilling — create a psychological transformation that is very similar to what happens when animals go feral. In animals, it takes a couple of generations of breeding for the true wild nature to re-emerge. Cats, for instance, revert to a basic, hardy, stocky, short-haired robustly-interbred tabby variety. Dogs become mutts. But in humans it can happen faster, since most of our domestication is through education and socialization rather than breeding.”

:-)

This thing looks gross ...
Re:The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet on Thursday April 19, 2018 @05:31PM (#16880337)
A related talk that Michael Jordan gave at a machine learning conference called Sys ML last month.

https://youtu.be/4inIBmY8dQI

Re:Evolving Simple Organisms on Monday December 25, 2017 @03:19AM (#16003287)
Reminds me of an old Javascript experiment called "Creatures Avoiding Planks" also based on neuroevolution:

Link: http://otoro.net/planks/ Past Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10711951