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te OK ok My Fantasy Sex-Positive, Anti-Abuse Program You can tell from the above list that relevant community efforts have focused on raising internal awareness, consolidating useful information, and educating. If I were to get a grant or something (ha!), I would certainly look...

possibility that machines threaten a new fascism must be weighed against the vigor of the liberal ideas, institutions, and norms that Wiener championed throughout the book. The flaw in today’s dystopian prophecies is that they disregard the existence of these norms and institutio...

60 that he had “moved away from Track 2 because China does not have much to say beyond the Xi Catechism. Even in private conversations, we are not getting anything interesting.” And yet another indicated that he no longer participates in many joint events because they need to be...

…dge via Hypergraphs Cognitive Equation Principle: In an intelligent system, many abstract patterns that are present in the system at a certain time as patterns among other Schema and Concepts, will at a near-future time be present in the system as patterns among elementary syste...

… not in code. Information is processed as continuous functions of values such as voltage and relative pulse frequency rather than by logical operations on discrete strings of bits. Digital computing, intolerant of error or ambiguity, depends upon error correction at every step al...

… office at: Follow me on twitter @lhsummers www.larrysummers.com Begin forwarded message: > wrote: Resent-From: < From: The Washington Post <[email protected]> Date: October 8, 2014 at 10:05:38 PM EDT To: "Summers, Lawrence" < Subject: Post Exclusive: Obama aid...

throughout economic history until new insights now summarized as the marginalist revolution began in 1871. The marginalists, mentioned in the forward, swapped the telescope for the microscope. They left aside the grand teleologies of Smith and Ricardo and Mill and Marx to refocus...

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5.3 An Architecture Diagram for Human-Like General Intelligence 103 concreteness, but of course the architecture is intended to be extended more broadly. In the hierarchy corresponding to an arm, for example, the lowest level would contain control patterns corresponding to indiv...

…eace Edward Bernard Glick May-June 2011 -- WHEN I WAS a young man in graduate school, two books impressed me mightily. They still do. One is Konrad Lorenz’s On Aggression. An M.D. and a Ph.D. and a 1973 Nobel laureate in medicine and physiology, Lorenz established the field of e...

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270 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? The Role of ‘Process’ in Creativity We hear a lot about ‘process’ when developing software and other creative tasks. The first thing to realize is process does not write software and every moment spent on process is a moment not writing softwa...

you would be told, 'This is a hand, you have a body,' and then you would have an interpretation of that experience, which you would call a thought. And then you would also be told, 'This is your body. You have a mind. You’re Indian. And you come from a Hindu family.’ All social c...

possibility that machines threaten a new fascism must be weighed against the vigor of the liberal ideas, institutions, and norms that Wiener championed throughout the book. The flaw in today’s dystopian prophecies is that they disregard the existence of these norms and institutio...

Eye on the Market | November 21, 2011 J.P Morgan Topic: The quixotic search for energy solutions Today’s US energy reality: electricity generation Before exploring why some of these ideas did not pan out, let’s look at where the US is right now in electricity generation. The t...