'Facing the Singularity' podcast
post by lukeprog · 2012-02-28T03:22:45.708Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 10 commentsMy online mini-book Facing the Singularity now has a podcast. Ratings and reviews on iTunes will be much appreciated, so as to direct people toward a rationality-informed approach to intelligence explosion.
Jaan Tallinn has been passing my chapters around to people because they are concise explanations of key lemmas in the standard arguments on the need for Friendly AI. This is gratifying because it's exactly the purpose for which I'm writing them, and I encourage others to send people to these chapters as well.
(I'm currently writing the final two chapters of the online book and recording readings of the other chapters for the podcast. A volunteer is doing the audio editing.)
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comment by beriukay · 2012-02-28T11:12:42.548Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Maybe this is just a personal problem, since I don't generally use iTunes, but the numerical ordering doesn't seem to gel with the named numbers (that is chapter 2 was listed as 1, Ch 3 was 2, and Ch1 was 3). Also, does anyone know a way to get podcasts without using iTunes?
Still listening... audio quality is good, voice is conversational (not monotone), talking speed is generally good (though when listing things, it can be a bit overwhelmingly fast for someone who isn't at a computer or can't easily skip backwards). But I suppose that's why there's also the mini-book, so that's not a real concern... They are short and sweet.
At first I thought the ending music was from DJ Shadow's You Can't Go Home Again, which I thought was fitting and proper. Then I used my phone to find out (using SoundHound), and discovered it was Ben Frost's Theory of Machines, which makes even more sense. Nice choice, and now I have some new music to discover!
Rated. Reviewed.
Replies from: lukeprog↑ comment by lukeprog · 2012-02-28T19:44:35.384Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
The non-iTunes RSS is here.
Replies from: Newsomian, jaime2000comment by curiousepic · 2012-02-28T19:13:22.289Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Are you sure it's legally safe to use that Mass Effect image, especially for this?
Replies from: lincolnquirk↑ comment by lincolnquirk · 2012-02-28T22:49:03.311Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
If there is a problem, someone will just ask him to take it down and there will be no other consequences.
comment by curiousepic · 2012-02-29T04:44:59.159Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Are you planning to put these up on Youtube in any form?
comment by Pablo (Pablo_Stafforini) · 2013-03-25T20:19:18.343Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
You may want to update the title and content of this post with the new name ("Facing the Intelligence Explosion") and URL.