Bay Area Winter Solstice 2023 will be held on December 16 at the Freight & Salvage in downtown Berkeley! Tickets are available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bay-area-winter-solstice-2023-tickets-721678057497. See the official event page at https://fb.me/1QOVAoRFRHROxgK for more information and future updates.
Just a thought I had today. I'm sure that it's trivial to the extent that it's correct, but it's a slow work day and I've been lurking here for too long. Superintelligent AI (or other post-human intelligence) is unlikely to use the concept of "evidence" in the same way we...
Sure, let's see. So, first off, nearly everyone involved in the program was a volunteer, including myself and Anna (the creative lead). No one was paid anything except the venue staff, the childcare providers, and travel and lodging for the professional musicians.
It's difficult to estimate how much time Anna and I put into this, but a few numbers to set a bound:
- If you just total up the time we spent in officially scheduled meetings about it, that's about 30 hours each. The first such meeting was in February 2023, ten months before the event.
- There were many, many hours of unscheduled time spent thinking, planning, bouncing ideas off of each other,... (read 460 more words →)
Hi! I was the logistics lead for the program, and I also had some input on the creative side, including helping to translate The Fallen Star. Probably not to anyone's surprise, I disagree with much of your commentary, but I did enjoy reading it. Thanks for your notes! Let me know if you or anyone has any questions: I don't promise to answer everything, and I don't check this site that often, but I could probably shed some light if there's anything anyone was confused by, particularly on the logistics side.
Bay Area Winter Solstice 2023 will be held on December 16 at the Freight & Salvage in downtown Berkeley!
Tickets are available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bay-area-winter-solstice-2023-tickets-721678057497.
See the official event page at https://fb.me/1QOVAoRFRHROxgK for more information and future updates.
Yes, that was my thought precisely. Which of those explanations might be useful in interpreting the drives of, for instance, people addicted to World of Warcraft?
Just a thought I had today. I'm sure that it's trivial to the extent that it's correct, but it's a slow work day and I've been lurking here for too long.
Superintelligent AI (or other post-human intelligence) is unlikely to use the concept of "evidence" in the same way we do. It's very hard for neural networks (including human brains) to explain what they "know". The human brain is a set of information-gathering tools plugged into various levels of pattern-recognition systems. When we say we know something, that's an entirely intuitive process. There's no manual tallying going on - the tallying is happening deep in our subconscious, pre-System 1 thinking.
The idea of scientific... (read 251 more words →)
I am familiar with his behavior on various alts. They paint a different picture than his twitter persona. Most notably, he was a longterm regular on r/theMotte as u/TrannyPornO.
Image and link for proof:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200807025145/https://reddit.com/user/TrannyPornO
... (read more)While posting under this name, his posts did not seem to me to embody the virtues of rationality. Example: