At this exact moment I’m trying to understand which of the million possible meanings of your question you meant, and which was the most common interpretation by the six people who upvoted it.
1) With those books? Nothing, just being amazed.
2) With the knowledge in them? I’m trying to find out whether I want the life in which I have the pleasure of
understanding them, or one of the counterfactual alternatives.
3) With this post to lesswrong? On a narrow scale just reporting a piece of data for others who like changing hats every now and then, but didn’t have the privilege of being here, yet. On a broad scale my goal is to make as many as possible aware of vast amounts of knowledge that are not in yours Peter Norvig AI, nor in the awesome papers by Miri people, but still are about minds, about variegated kinds of minds, which work very differently from the intuitions one has after going through lesswrong, this project includes several posts prior and posterior to this one, and it can be said to be a continuation of Dennett’s project of telling AI people “Our minds are, that is true, a computer, but they are not like any computer you’ve ever seen”. On a personal scale, this semester beeminder makes me write 2 hours a day, when I’m not writing academic things, my belief is that lesswrong is the best training, and highest expected impact, for my brainstorms.
4) With your life, in ways which relate to this post?
I guess what most people want to do: Increase the likelihood of a posthuman dream being achieved, prefereably during our lifetimes, preserving the things that are valuable for us (my guess so far is something involving happiness, identity, complexity and consequentialism), and having a life to which I can look back and sing “My Way” when it’s near the end, both in the case in which the dream became reality, and in the other case.
What I meant was, is there some point where you plan to stop learning and start doing? If so, then the more you know what you plan on actually doing, the more your learning can be focused on the specific requirements of that thing. Then you don’t have to worry so much about missing out on all the rest that you don’t have time for.
At this exact moment I’m trying to understand which of the million possible meanings of your question you meant, and which was the most common interpretation by the six people who upvoted it.
1) With those books? Nothing, just being amazed.
2) With the knowledge in them? I’m trying to find out whether I want the life in which I have the pleasure of understanding them, or one of the counterfactual alternatives.
3) With this post to lesswrong? On a narrow scale just reporting a piece of data for others who like changing hats every now and then, but didn’t have the privilege of being here, yet. On a broad scale my goal is to make as many as possible aware of vast amounts of knowledge that are not in yours Peter Norvig AI, nor in the awesome papers by Miri people, but still are about minds, about variegated kinds of minds, which work very differently from the intuitions one has after going through lesswrong, this project includes several posts prior and posterior to this one, and it can be said to be a continuation of Dennett’s project of telling AI people “Our minds are, that is true, a computer, but they are not like any computer you’ve ever seen”. On a personal scale, this semester beeminder makes me write 2 hours a day, when I’m not writing academic things, my belief is that lesswrong is the best training, and highest expected impact, for my brainstorms.
4) With your life, in ways which relate to this post? I guess what most people want to do: Increase the likelihood of a posthuman dream being achieved, prefereably during our lifetimes, preserving the things that are valuable for us (my guess so far is something involving happiness, identity, complexity and consequentialism), and having a life to which I can look back and sing “My Way” when it’s near the end, both in the case in which the dream became reality, and in the other case.
So which of these, was your question?
What I meant was, is there some point where you plan to stop learning and start doing? If so, then the more you know what you plan on actually doing, the more your learning can be focused on the specific requirements of that thing. Then you don’t have to worry so much about missing out on all the rest that you don’t have time for.
I am one of the people who upvoted ShardPhoenix’s comment, and I took it to refer to a combination of 2) and 4).