Are people keen to have these in text format? I've transcribed a couple of them (it's one of the SIAI volunteer tasks) and I want to know if it's worth carrying on.
I emailed the text to Ken Myers and he acknowledged it, but I don't know what happened to it. It doesn't seem to have appeared here yet (I've done 03 and 04 from 2009): http://www.singularityvolunteers.org/opportunities/transcription/videos
Some random thoughts about that page:
Adding to what Luke said, which ones have you and haven't you transcribed? I'll transcribe others.
Damnit, now I've got semantic satiation on the word "transcribe".
I've been slowly working down the 2009 list in the order that they're listed here: http://www.singularityvolunteers.org/opportunities/transcription/videos
Doing them in popularity order might make more intuitive sense, but doing them sequentially might result in fewer collisions if multiple people are doing it simultaneously. See also my reply to lukeprog.
Edit: completed on 30-Jan-2012 (note deadline slip from 31-Dec-2011)
I'll commit to transcribing
by December 1, 2011. (Other transcribers should notice that I skipped one in this list; I want to start with talks I haven't already seen).
It would be best if there were some sort of official place to put intent to transcribe, but for now I'll edit this comment with my own intentions to transcribe those videos, with appropriate automatic removal and assumption that the work will never be done if it's not done by a date specified by the user.
Edited to add, December 6, 2011: Task was completed on time. Currently too busy to commit to more for a while.
If it's ok to NOT do them sequentially (I'd rather transcribe the ones I'm more interested in), I'll commit to transcribing
Where do we send the transcriptions when we are done?
Also, when doing the Bostrom video, I was able to "summarize"/re-word to almost 1/3 of the length (the way people talk isn't necessarily the easiest/quickest way to convey textual information in written form). It was a PITA, so I won't absolutely commit to doing it for the other vids, but would that be something people were interested in?
lukeprog said to send them to him. I can cc both of you, but I don't want to make coordination any more difficult than it needs to be :-)
Thanks! I tried to send one to you on here but the formatting (italics, new lines, etc) didn't copy. Should I send it without formatting, or email it to you (and if so, could you send me your email)?
After some prompting I'm now going to be working on this again, starting from the most recent ones.
DONE 2011 Ray Kurzweil (From Eliza to Watson to passing the Turing Test) CURRENTLY WORKING ON 2011 Stephen Wolfram (Computation and the future of mankind)
I'm so glad that this exists now. Finally, an organized place for all the Summit videos, all on one page. Will it be updated in the future?
No, it will never be updated again. This page is only for 2006-2011 Summits, no others.
(Yes it will be updated, forgive my snarkiness :D )
Adding on to that, these three links seem to be broken because of a stray %0A:
Alexander Wissner-Gross. Planetary-scale intelligence.
Tyler Cowen & Michael Vassar. Debate on the Great Stagnation.
Dileep George and Scott Brown. From planes to brains: building AI the Wright way.
Nevermind retracting it, it's even more distracting now. -.-
If you retract and delete your own comments, the original could then be deleted - leaving things neat and tidy.
What happened to "David Brin" and "A History of Bayes' Theorem"?
Wonderfull resource to have!
Also I'm just wondering if you have any comment on the somewhat related questions I have about the availability of the summit talks.
Here is an index of all Singularity Summit speeches.
Summit 2006
Summit 2007
Summit 2008
Summit 2009
Summit 2010
Summit 2011