I thought this was an excellent quote from his newsfeed and that it was good evidence that his feed was worth reading. Then, I indirectly asked if he had any similar links/resources, since I thought the quote was so good.
But, really? Is this the most interesting quote you could find in Kaj’s thread? Your quote is long, dry, super-technical, and maybe interesting only to experts. You might argue that the last part carries the general insight that criticism helps the development of new ideas, but it’s still too dense.
To illustrate my point, let me pick a semi-random (I scrolled a bunch randomly and picked without reading) quote from his thread:
Fear of success. At its root this is a fear of change. If I succeed in the thing I am setting out to do, what then? What if I actually become the person I wish to become, who am I? My solution to this was to set up my school and my training in such a way that success was impossible. There is no end goal or end result. There is only process. My mission in life is deliberately unattainable: to restore our European martial heritage to its rightful place at the heart of European culture. Of course that cannot be achieved alone, and there is no reasonable expectation of it being accomplished in my lifetime. There is no question that European martial arts have come a long way in the last decade or so, and my work has been a part of that, but another excellent aspect to this goal is even if we could say it was accomplished in my lifetime, nobody would ever suggest that I did it. So fear of success is not a problem, as success is impossible.
I don’t question that what you quoted would’ve been very interesting for you, but I suspect you’re an expert (or an experienced amateur at least), and I think you underestimated inferential distances.
Thanks! Mind Projection Fallacy on my part. I’m currently trying to pick a topic for my Master’s thesis, and high level overviews of AI-related are very interesting to me.
Likewise, I don’t think that quote is particularly interesting—mainly because I don’t see how I could use it to change my behavior/strategy to achieve my goals.
In summary, Kaj’s feed has interesting information on a wide variety of topics, a subset of which will probably be interesting to many of the people reading this.
I’m curious why this was down voted.
I thought this was an excellent quote from his newsfeed and that it was good evidence that his feed was worth reading. Then, I indirectly asked if he had any similar links/resources, since I thought the quote was so good.
I didn’t down-vote you.
But, really? Is this the most interesting quote you could find in Kaj’s thread? Your quote is long, dry, super-technical, and maybe interesting only to experts. You might argue that the last part carries the general insight that criticism helps the development of new ideas, but it’s still too dense.
To illustrate my point, let me pick a semi-random (I scrolled a bunch randomly and picked without reading) quote from his thread:
I don’t question that what you quoted would’ve been very interesting for you, but I suspect you’re an expert (or an experienced amateur at least), and I think you underestimated inferential distances.
Thanks! Mind Projection Fallacy on my part. I’m currently trying to pick a topic for my Master’s thesis, and high level overviews of AI-related are very interesting to me.
Likewise, I don’t think that quote is particularly interesting—mainly because I don’t see how I could use it to change my behavior/strategy to achieve my goals.
In summary, Kaj’s feed has interesting information on a wide variety of topics, a subset of which will probably be interesting to many of the people reading this.
Also, I found another similar link on Kaj’s blog: http://kajsotala.fi/2012/09/introduction-to-connectionist-modelling-of-cognitive-processes-a-chapter-by-chapter-review/