Category: AI, Computation, and Technology

  • But that said, I have seen nothing that even vaguely approaches AI. Only systems

    But that said, I have seen nothing that even vaguely approaches AI. Only systems that process discreet data faster.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-05-23 15:07:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/734762807175045121

    Reply addressees: @aparanjape @pmarca

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/734611335783272449


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    @aparanjape

    “Google is doubling down on Artificial Intelligence as the next great phase of Computing” https://t.co/m3h0dcf7oV .. @pmarca

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/734611335783272449

  • Ledgers (~blockchains) are necessary for AI’s to gain access to external actions

    Ledgers (~blockchains) are necessary for AI’s to gain access to external actions, access regulated by non AI algorithms.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-05-23 15:07:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/734762588685381633

    Reply addressees: @aparanjape @pmarca

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/734611335783272449


    IN REPLY TO:

    @aparanjape

    “Google is doubling down on Artificial Intelligence as the next great phase of Computing” https://t.co/m3h0dcf7oV .. @pmarca

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/734611335783272449

  • Humans suffer from pre-cooperative impulses for survival that are non rational f

    Humans suffer from pre-cooperative impulses for survival that are non rational for an AI to develop unless by design.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-05-23 15:04:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/734762049113317378

    Reply addressees: @aparanjape @pmarca

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/734611335783272449


    IN REPLY TO:

    @aparanjape

    “Google is doubling down on Artificial Intelligence as the next great phase of Computing” https://t.co/m3h0dcf7oV .. @pmarca

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/734611335783272449

  • Ergo, any AI algorithm requires decidability, and one that may not violate such

    Ergo, any AI algorithm requires decidability, and one that may not violate such impositions will produce moral actions.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-05-23 15:04:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/734761809983492096

    Reply addressees: @aparanjape @pmarca

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/734611335783272449


    IN REPLY TO:

    @aparanjape

    “Google is doubling down on Artificial Intelligence as the next great phase of Computing” https://t.co/m3h0dcf7oV .. @pmarca

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/734611335783272449

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES Humans regulate each other by the behavior we call ‘pro

    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES

    Humans regulate each other by the behavior we call ‘property’. AI’s that do also will readily simulate human behavior.

    Choices require a means of decidability. Property is the only decidable value that is calculable(rational)+cooperative.

    All human moral intuitions are reducible to prohibitions on imposition against various inventories (property).

    Ergo, any AI algorithm requires decidability, and one that may not violate such impositions will produce moral actions.

    Humans suffer from pre-cooperative impulses for survival that are non rational for an AI to develop unless by design.

    Ledgers (~blockchains) are necessary for AI’s to gain access to external actions, access regulated by non AI algorithms.

    But that said, I have seen nothing that even vaguely approaches AI. Only systems that process discreet data faster that can – and give us the illusion of intelligence by doing so.

    Ai’s, like mathematical axioms, produce deterministic consequences that appear ‘magical’ to us. But AI exists in fact rather than illusion, if and only if the algorithms are capable of free-association followed by Introspective regression-testing for falsehood (survival of possibility).

    Consciousness is produced by the (brief) memory of continuous comparison of changes in state, perceived by continuous searching of memories. The thing we call ‘mind’ is just a bag of emotions that react to changes in state of property-in-toto, and use (very) short term memory to accumulate emotions and associate them with those memories.

    I’ve been working on this problem since the early 80’s and our lack of progress is still a problem of hardware.

    That said, an intelligence will always merely fool us.

    Anything intelligent in the sense we mean it, will compete with us the way other creatures compete with us.

    And that is the last thing we want to bring into this world.

    Ergo, an assertion that the first law of decidability is that property-in-toto may not be violated – no involuntary cost may be imposed by action or inaction against property in toto.

    Ergo, an assertion that the second law of decidability is that any agent capable of choice or action, must be monitored by a non-sentient moral agent that prohibits the cognizance of, or action upon, any cost that wold be imposed involuntarily against property in toto.

    This agent can cause analogy to pain (cost) upon any concept or action that would prohibit the calculation (use of) that memory or concept that imposes cost, and prohibit entirely action that would impose an involuntary cost.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-05-23 12:00:00 UTC

  • Well it took a long time but with node we finally have a tech stack for the web

    Well it took a long time but with node we finally have a tech stack for the web that isn’t a hack, but an almost ideal solution. Very elegant architecture.

    Sails is as elegant for Js as Laravel is for php.

    We use Reactive and Laravel. I love our stack. But for the mobile world, from an archictectural aesthetic, I sure like reactive/react/Babel/webpack/node model. Especially adding typescript.

    Not too keen on the new Js extensions. I like code to be tediously readable.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-05-21 07:42:00 UTC

  • (from elsewhere) Constructive Advice: When working with colored pencil from a ph

    (from elsewhere)

    Constructive Advice:

    When working with colored pencil from a photo, you may want to preserve the feeling of hand rendering by a simple technique of lightening the background shadows. Why? The eye does not see what the camera sees and it attempts to compensate for differences in light and shadow. The camera does not – we rely on post-processing (now photoshop) to reduce the contrasts. So if you want the ‘shock’ of the 80’s realists then you keep the strong shadows, and if you want to appeal to sensibilities of Durer then lighten them. Most line artists – Durer is my favorite example – will intensify shadow on the subject, and lighten shadows cast by it. Notice Chuck Close’s work, which is monumental – he ignores the background (largely). Or Robert Longo. But its better to just study the great masters. This technique allows you to combine the painterly feel with photorealistic rendering. On the other hand, maybe you want your work to scream “Photorealism”. But now that we know how Vermeer did his work there is no magic to photorealistic drawing and painting any longer.

    Anyway. That’s how four years of art theory at an expensive private university will teach you how to critique art. lol

    Cheers.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-05-18 08:19:00 UTC

  • Ok, so this whole js/react/express/node/amazon platform thing is looking pretty

    Ok, so this whole js/react/express/node/amazon platform thing is looking pretty good. Certainly would have saved my company time and money – if anyone could have been found to work on it. lol.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-05-15 12:46:00 UTC

  • LOVING CODING LANGUAGES Javascript/css/less (and now TypeScript) is really more

    LOVING CODING LANGUAGES

    Javascript/css/less (and now TypeScript) is really more interesting to me, because the UI is more where my heart is. And it’s finally matured (almost). I also love Php. But I gotta say that Python is just an awesome language. It’s very clean, very clear, well structured, and well documented. Its all very ‘intentionally logical’. And most importantly. it’s organization dependent not character dependent and for people like me who have a history troublesome relationship with semicolons, it’s wonderful way to work.

    I’ve always disliked memory management and type management as unnecessary (given that I have always designed and built business applications not system software). It’s always seemed like inventory management in adventure games: unnecessarily realistic. I’ve always been better at analysis, application architecture and ui design than coding in and of itself. It’s because I have a tremendous long term memory, but a rather weak short term (working) memory.

    Anyway, I’m in the lisp/php/python/js fan club. the cult of language rather than engineering.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-05-15 04:47:00 UTC

  • #DAOhub #SLOCKIT #ethereum Amazing since from the home page the purpose is impos

    #DAOhub #SLOCKIT #ethereum Amazing since from the http://Daohumb.org home page the purpose is impossible to ascertain.


    Source date (UTC): 2016-05-14 17:45:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/731540833690877953

    Reply addressees: @fjccoin

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/731523706644762625


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    @fjccoin

    Goodbye, Legacy crowdfunding. I want to say you’ll be missed, but you won’t. #DAOhub #SLOCKIT #ethereum https://t.co/FfQ9qSw00H

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/731523706644762625