If I have to do a bachelors degree, I expect that I can pick up an accredited degree quickly at that university that lets you test out of everything (I think it’s called University of Phoenix these days?). No Masters, though, unless there’s an org that will let me test out of that.
The rule of thumb here is pretty simple: I’m happy to take tests, I’m not willing to sit in a building for two years solely in order to get a piece of paper which indicates primarily that I sat in a building for two years.
If you don’t have a bachelor’s degree, that makes it rather unlikely that you could get a PhD. I agree with folks that you shouldn’t bother—if you are right, you’ll get your honorary degrees and Nobel prizes, and if not, then not. (I know I am replying to a five-year-old comment).
I also think you are too quick to dismiss the point of getting these degrees, since you in fact have no experience in what that involves.
I would really like it if EY had the ability (money, engineering team, etc.) to begin producing brain-like hardware, replete with mirror neurons. I think that’s the only way that the sociopaths (prosecutors, judges, politicians, bureaucrats, police) in the coercive sector will be challenged in a meaningful way. I think that it might be smarter for him to relocate MIRI to South Korea, because there’s more of a culture of robotics there, and robotics is necessary for feedback regarding real-world problems.
These desires of mine aren’t tyrannical. I wouldn’t cling to them or try to prescribe actions for EY if he didn’t share the same desires. I’m just stating what I would do, if I were suddenly to occupy a leadership position at MIRI, or some similarly-capable organization.
In many ways, this is a deep decision that is based on difficult to quantify innate value judgments. Hawkins was fascinated with brains, and logically, pursued brain design because attempts at getting intelligent, brainlike responses with technology have been so weak in the past, even given approximately adequate computing power. Deep-learning done by Schmidhuber has also recently been productive, given that all computational hardware is enabling far more intelligence, even from systems that were not optimal.
This leads me to believe there will be “many kinds of minds” in the coming singularity. Some, of course, will be superior to others in terms of ability to restructure their environments. Let’s hope they aren’t sociopathic, or “coercive-human-directed.” Remember, even intelligent people can act as sociopaths given good intentions, but the wrong (coercive collectivist) ideas.
If I have to do a bachelors degree, I expect that I can pick up an accredited degree quickly at that university that lets you test out of everything (I think it’s called University of Phoenix these days?). No Masters, though, unless there’s an org that will let me test out of that.
The rule of thumb here is pretty simple: I’m happy to take tests, I’m not willing to sit in a building for two years solely in order to get a piece of paper which indicates primarily that I sat in a building for two years.
If you don’t have a bachelor’s degree, that makes it rather unlikely that you could get a PhD. I agree with folks that you shouldn’t bother—if you are right, you’ll get your honorary degrees and Nobel prizes, and if not, then not. (I know I am replying to a five-year-old comment).
I also think you are too quick to dismiss the point of getting these degrees, since you in fact have no experience in what that involves.
That’s what John Gilmore did, among other cool things. http://www.toad.com/gnu/ http://papersplease.org/id.html
John Gilmore writes about his cut-rate degree, here: http://reason.com/archives/2005/04/01/letters
I would really like it if EY had the ability (money, engineering team, etc.) to begin producing brain-like hardware, replete with mirror neurons. I think that’s the only way that the sociopaths (prosecutors, judges, politicians, bureaucrats, police) in the coercive sector will be challenged in a meaningful way. I think that it might be smarter for him to relocate MIRI to South Korea, because there’s more of a culture of robotics there, and robotics is necessary for feedback regarding real-world problems.
These desires of mine aren’t tyrannical. I wouldn’t cling to them or try to prescribe actions for EY if he didn’t share the same desires. I’m just stating what I would do, if I were suddenly to occupy a leadership position at MIRI, or some similarly-capable organization.
In many ways, this is a deep decision that is based on difficult to quantify innate value judgments. Hawkins was fascinated with brains, and logically, pursued brain design because attempts at getting intelligent, brainlike responses with technology have been so weak in the past, even given approximately adequate computing power. Deep-learning done by Schmidhuber has also recently been productive, given that all computational hardware is enabling far more intelligence, even from systems that were not optimal.
This leads me to believe there will be “many kinds of minds” in the coming singularity. Some, of course, will be superior to others in terms of ability to restructure their environments. Let’s hope they aren’t sociopathic, or “coercive-human-directed.” Remember, even intelligent people can act as sociopaths given good intentions, but the wrong (coercive collectivist) ideas.