Chris McKinstry was one of two AI researchers who committed suicide in early 2006. On the SL4 list, a kind of precursor to Less Wrong, we spent some time puzzling over McKinstry’s final ideas.
I’m mentioning here (because I don’t know where else to mention it) that there was a paper on arxiv recently, “Robot Affect: the Amygdala as Bloch Sphere”, which has an odd similarity to those final ideas. Aficionados of AI theories that propose radical identities connecting brain structures, math structures, and elements of cognition, may wish to compare the two in more detail.
Chris McKinstry was one of two AI researchers who committed suicide in early 2006. On the SL4 list, a kind of precursor to Less Wrong, we spent some time puzzling over McKinstry’s final ideas.
I’m mentioning here (because I don’t know where else to mention it) that there was a paper on arxiv recently, “Robot Affect: the Amygdala as Bloch Sphere”, which has an odd similarity to those final ideas. Aficionados of AI theories that propose radical identities connecting brain structures, math structures, and elements of cognition, may wish to compare the two in more detail.