Space colonization is part of the transhumanist package of ideas originating with Nikolai Federov.
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Build something you need. What you don’t know, you’ll learn in the process.
You may have some inferential distance issues here.
IQ reverts to the mean across generations.
This memory?
Into the vacuum rose the memory, the worst memory, something forgotten so long ago that the neural patterns shouldn’t have still existed.
Thanks, I didn’t realize that was a real thing.
Harry’s sleep schedule wasn’t on the red herring list. Further investigation warranted.
Regarding the ending comments about Godric’s Hollow: there was some earlier discussion about the wizarding community’s consensus here.
That sure is a lot of burdensome details.
That description of the line of Merlin at the beginning sure sounded ‘sacred’.
Agreed. I’m not sure why everyone’s so fixated on a tradeoff by Harry.
What happened here?
The Veritaserum was brought in then, and Hermione looked for a brief moment like she was about to sob, she was looking at Harry—no, at Professor McGonagall—and Professor McGonagall was mouthing words that Harry couldn’t make out from his angle. Then Hermione swallowed three drops of Veritaserum and her face grew slack.
This fits very well. Nice job!
So, what happened to Narcissa?
Good point. My interpretation of what you’re saying is that the error is actually failure to re-plan at all, not bad math while re-planning.
To educate myself, I visited the SI site and read your December progress report. I should note that I’ve never visited the SI site before, despite having donated twice in the past two years. Here are my two impressions:
Many of these bullet points are about work in progress and (paywalled?) journal articles. If I can’t link it to my friends and say, “Check out this cool thing,” I don’t care. Tell me what you’ve finished that I can share with people who might be interested.
Lots on transparency and progress reporting. In general, your communication strategy seems focused on people who already are aware of and follow SIAI closely. These people are loud, but they’re a small minority of your potential donors.
There’s a phrase that the tech world uses to describe the kind of people you want to hire: “smart, and gets things done.” I’m willing to grant “smart”, but what about the other one?
The sequences and HPMoR are fantastic introductory/outreach writing, but they’re all a few years old at this point. The rhetoric about SI being more awesome than ever doesn’t square with the trend I observe* in your actual productivity. To be blunt, why are you happy that you’re doing less with more?
*I’m sure I don’t know everything SI has actually done in the last year, but that’s a problem too.
You’re harder to relate to now that you’ve made progress on problems the rest of us are still struggling with. Don’t take it personally.
The winning program ignored a lot of information, and there weren’t enough entries to convince me that the information couldn’t be used efficiently.
Agreed. We can certainly do better than that. Unless I have a major life-event before the next AI challenge, I’ll enter and get the LW community involved in the effort.
‘Shall be’ refers to a change of future state, so it can’t be about the way things are now.