AI risk scenario: Deceptive long-term replacement of the human workforce - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jun 3, 2013
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Alexander Kruel
Transhumanist, atheist, vegetarian who's interested in science fiction, science, philosophy, math, programming, language, consciousness, reality...
Questions regarding the nanotechnology-AI-risk conjunction - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jun 2, 2013
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AI drives vs. practical research and the lack of specific decision procedures - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jun 1, 2013
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AI vs. humanity and the lack of concrete scenarios - http://kruel.co/2013...
Jun 1, 2013
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The most controversial topics in Wikipedia: A multilingual and geographical analysis "We present, visualize and analyse the similarities and differences between the controversial topics related to "edit wars" identified in 10 different language versions of Wikipedia. After a brief review of the related work we describe the methods developed to... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 31, 2013
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AI Doomsday Recipe - http://kruel.co/2013...
May 31, 2013
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Calculating the three-dimensional path of a lightning bolt from two simultaneous pictures taken from different spots. Source: http://calculatedimages.blogspot.co.uk/2013... "Having two pictures of the exact same lightning bolt lets you do something pretty amazing; reconstruct its path in 3D. In this case because the precise... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 30, 2013
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Reinforcement Learning Library for Education and Research "The aim of the RLPy is to simplify education and research in solving Markov Decision Processes by providing a plug-n-play framework, where various components can be linked together to create experiments." Source: http://acl.mit.edu/RLPy... More:... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 29, 2013
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"Quasicrystals are highly structured patterns which are not periodic. Unlike the crystalline structure of e.g. hexagons, a quasicrystal will never line up perfectly with a shifted copy of itself. Here such a structure is created as the interference pattern between 7 waves approaching the centre of the image at equal angles." Source:... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 29, 2013
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Your choice of charity is very important. By choosing carefully you can get much more impact from your donation and thereby help many more people. Indeed, it is not even a matter of some charities being 10 or 100 times as effective: even restricted to the field of health programs in developing countries, research shows that some are up to 1,000... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 28, 2013
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Catholic Church vs. MIRI - http://kruel.co/2013...
May 26, 2013
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Peter Fedin
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Вера Христова
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by http://beesandbombs.tumblr.com/post... +Boris Borcic - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 26, 2013
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"When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace. And when the high-speed winds form tornadoes in the desert, nature’s deadliest killer rules water, land, and air." via http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 25, 2013
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Sticks and Stones by http://xkcd.com/1216/ - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
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Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence.jpg - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 24, 2013
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Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies Source: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/poster - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 21, 2013
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"This is one of those times when scientists discover a structure whose function is absolutely mysterious. Piotr (Peter) Naskrecki, an entomologist, photographer and author working the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, is currently in Mozambique, documenting his adventures at a website called The Smaller Majority. Piotr is one of the best... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 20, 2013
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Evening meal today: Tomato+mozzarella+basil leaves+olive oil. I saw a similar dish on the Israeli original of Homeland, which started here last week. It's at least as good as the American adaption. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 19, 2013
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"A new study has just come out that looked at nearly 12,000 professional scientific journal papers about global warming, and found that—of the papers expressing a stance on global warming—97 percent endorse both the reality of global warming and the fact that humans are causing it." Source:... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 17, 2013
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The World as 100 People Source: http://visual.ly/world-1... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 16, 2013
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Photo of my grandfather during WW2. My grandmother can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 15, 2013
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The National Socialist Underground or NSU, (German: Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund) is a far-right German terror group which was uncovered in November 2011. "So far, the following crimes have been attributed to the NSU: the Bosphorus serial murders, a series of murders of nine immigrants (eight Turkish and one Greek) between 9 September 2000... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 15, 2013
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European Union countries surveyed by the Pew Research Center "...the euro, the common currency for 17 of the 27 European Union members, remains in public favor. More than six-in-ten people want to keep the euro as their currency in Greece (69%), Spain (67%), Germany (66%), Italy (64%) and France (63%). And support for the euro has actually... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 14, 2013
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"Though it seems as though the top row of diamonds is darker than the bottom, all the diamonds are actually identical. The sliding diamond seems to get darker as it ascends, but is in fact unchanging." Source: http://blog.matthen.com/post... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 13, 2013
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A picture of Earth through time "Today, we're making it possible for you to go back in time and get a stunning historical perspective on the changes to the Earth’s surface over time. Working with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and TIME, we're releasing more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from space, compiled for the first... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 9, 2013
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What do "most physicists" work on? "It always amazes me how skewed the image of physics research in the popular press is. To begin with, the amount of coverage is totally unrepresentative for the actual amount of research on a given topic. Controversial and outright fantastic topics are typically hotly discussed, so is everything that captures the... - https://picasaweb.google.com/1068082...
May 8, 2013
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Extreme altruism as an existential risk? - http://kruel.co/2013...
May 7, 2013
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"systematic effort to actually be effective about what they say they care about" - is that really the only true proof of belief?
- Todd Hoff
Prerequisite knowledge required for deciding if friendly AI research is worthwhile? - http://kruel.co/2013...
May 7, 2013
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Tall, Blonde, Swimsuit Bikini Model Goddess! Nikon D800 Photos! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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