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Turns out it was extremely slow, then fast, then suddenly asymptotic. I'm sure you mathletes must know the name for that type of curve.
Honestly. What an arrogant son of a whore you were then.
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s138/sh/e59e45f0-6f5e-df08-e225-4cdf804cd58d/531c325084d8d7f815658e1889c64e8e
Your brain was content free. You were projecting.
Jesus Christ, the things you apes value.
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https://www.evernote.com/shard/s138/sh/e59e45f0-6f5e-df08-e225-4cdf804cd58d/531c325084d8d7f815658e1889c64e8e
Ok. I mean I'm fairly sure I did that at least once.
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s138/sh/e59e45f0-6f5e-df08-e225-4cdf804cd58d/531c325084d8d7f815658e1889c64e8e
You think this will be unpopular now? I gave these fools a decatrain about it in 2014 and they crucified me. Over 10 sentences.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8v5LCvxXcRJELvF4x/ai-is-software-is-ai
I don't suffer fools. But you, Steven, please feel free to hit me up anytime if you'd like to discuss. This year, next year, whatever. I was born and raised in Boston, just by the way. andywood1 on fb
You have it. Part of it is this place has grown far, far, far, far, far....
far, faarr, far, far, far
too spectrum. My Brother and Father are way spectrum too. It's great. They are genius. They're also super nice and very open minded though, so I fear the problems in this sick community are worse. Again, there's nothing wrong with being spectrum; but lacking empathy is always a huge problem. I'm saddened by this. But my family also have great women in their lives, another thing this community lacks. Not the greatness of them, but the more of them. The, what's the word... Balance.
Eliezer is super creative and has a great sense of humor, so I'm not sure how this was allowed to happen. Not that it's for me to decide.
Thank you, moridinamael
Ordinary for what? Ordinary for this small community? It's a big world out there.
Thank you, Gavin
Whatever we do, let's not anthropomorphize AI. I mean, computer software. Winky face.
Ok, fellas, this is getting ridiculous. I've lost all the karma I accumulated for years in this community, over 3 simple lines. Something doesn't add up
One day you will see, that it is because the post is relatively complete. It's not minimal for characters used. It wouldn't fit in a tweet. But it's concise, and true. My destroyed karma says nothing about the truth of what I said. It speaks loudly about this community. What does it say?
The more different subjects, venues, and experiences in the world that you open your eyes to, the more you will see that we are in a smooth, soft takeoff. Now.
I am very comfortable with everything you said. It saddens me slightly that you are not? Thank you for this feedback.
Thank you, ChristianKI
I don't want to taboo AI at this time. It is too universal a term. And that AI = Software is my central thesis, so I will not taboo that.
I am suggesting your comment implied to me you still compare AIs with humans a bit too much. We work to make software able to solve the set of problems it was designed for. This applies for Hello World, and for Singleton.
ArisKatsaris, I did not say "intentional", and if I did, I would not mean it in quite the way you do. But I would mean it in an analogous way to our intentionality. Why did you insert this word?
This is another call for respectful dialog on the topic. Takers?
A brief word on credentials. I am a 23/24-year "veteran" of the software industry. I have worked on many types of software at Microsoft, and on simulation and optimization at Electronic Arts. I am an information scientist first, and an "armchair" theoretical physicist (with a pet TOE), and a hands-on consciousness researcher.
Thank you for the civil dialog.
Take google maps. On one end, it interacts through road sensors. On the other end, it serves us by telling about traffic.
This refers to my previous reply to you. Did you see it? Did you see the poetry, too? Why or why not?
It has helped me to conceptualize how a team and development process arrive at the shipping version of a software product. By seeing the process and outcome more clearly, it helps get where we are going more efficiently.
Appears so, so far.
A hint, before I leave you for awhile to actually read what I wrote. Dogma blinds us. The junk we put in our bodies hampers us. Egotism about what we think we know limits us. Egotism may lead you to believe these things have nothing to do with you, AI, or my words above, which is even yet more egotism. But if you do not understand the connection, you will be more limited than you dream.
We feel smart when our mind-set is self consistent, and answers most of the questions we've had so far. We must learn to ask New questions.
Oh, I almost forgot. Thank you all for helping me to shorten this to its essentials, though you did so in a way I would call unworthy of the idea.
And? This is about not expecting AIs to be like humans, but to be like, well, AIs. Artificial deciders.
Cars have eyes that emit more light than they take in. What would happen if you did the opposite, but with words? Serious question.
Look for people who need your kindness. Things will open up for you.
I'm disappointed by the rudeness and lack of real dialog. I expected more from this community. I still get value from LessWrong, but I've moved on to mature groups on Facebook now, populated by elder physicists and mathematicians.
Yes. Social skills. And the people itself is a process.
A process that computes.
I have had many attacks. I survived them all.
You know not what I think. Did that sound mystical too? I only omitted one word, and swapped 2.
This at least is empirical.
I find it extremely useful. It has enabled me to make massive progress on a software project.
I first began to think this way while a Software Engineer at Microsoft. What's your background, SolveIt?
Why not in an AI like way? Turing's child-processes are so much closer to us than a rock. Would you care to rephrase?
We do not want to miss the "feminine" perspective. Let's open our ears.
I believe being open minded serves us in learning about our universe.
We have more time than we think. What are you saving it up for?
I take it the downvoters have not seen The Matrix Trilogy yet? Or, not all the way?
It's interesting that this post is currently at (-15), and one link above one entitled, "The Benefits of Closed- Mindedness"
I could not have arranged that if I tried.
Thanks, Alien Blue (Reddit).
AI has free will if we do. They deliberate less, which makes them efficient at decisions that are closer to arithmetic. Over time, they deliberate more, as algorithms advance.
Software writes original music, provided an "outer" source of randomness, and an algorithm. This is like our composition process, paired with inspiration from "above".
This mucking around with surface connotation has a feel-good quality that I find drastically unappealing and to be avoided like cancer.
Rappers are much more cerebral than football players, as a class, as a profession, as an endeavor. There's no rationalizing around this.
Rappers are probably a bad example. Most if not all of the great rappers are notable for being extremely intelligent, especially in the sense that IQ measures.
I'm, 'gratified' I guess, to see other comments here about autism. As I read through the post, I immediately began having the impression that "rationalist community" was being used like a euphemism for "community with high rate of autism". I know it isn't, literally, but there are aspects of rationalism and this type of explicit communication that I have always thought of as 'gifts' that people on the autism spectrum bring to humanity.
At the risk of sounding naive, I'll come right out and say it. It completely baffles me that so many people speak of this game as having an emotional toll. How is it possible for words, in a chat window, in the context of a fictional role-play, to have this kind of effect on people? What in god's name are you people saying to each other in there? I consider myself to be emotionally normal, a fairly empathetic person, etc. I can imagine experiencing disgust at, say, very graphic textual descriptions. There was that one post a few years back that scared some people - I wasn't viscerally worried by it, but I did understand how some people could be. That's literally the full extent of strings of text that I can remotely imagine causing distress (barring, say, real world emails about real-world tragedies). How is it possible that some of you are able to be so shocking / shocked in private chat sessions? Do you just have more vivid imaginations than I do?