Would be nice to know if participants plan to attempt A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior https://www.coursera.org/course/behavioralecon or Know Thyself https://www.coursera.org/course/knowthyself
Utopiah
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To clarify on Google Car http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_driverless_car says that Sebastian Thrun was leading Stanford lab for the DARPA challenges few years ago. So yes Google does have a driverless car but as far as I can most if not all of the work regarding the actual driving was done before it was related to Google. Now regarding Google Maps and Street View it is probably mostly internal research but I don’t think it can be considered related to driving. It is mostly indexing and searching (which is Google core business).
Regarding war and my doubts on peace, US DoD as #1 world employer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers and China trailing behind.
Some resources mentioned during the meetup
Thinking, Fast and Slow (1h video) http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/dl.aspx?id=155752
Toward Replacement Parts for the Brain, MIT Press 2005 http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=10550&ttype=2
A Brain Implant that Thinks, MIT Tech Review 2012 http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429204/a-brain-implant-that-thinks/
Impact of caloric restriction on health and survival in rhesus monkeys from the NIA study, Nature 2012 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7415/full/nature11432.html
Activation of adult-born neurons facilitates learning and memory, Nature Neuroscience 2012 http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v15/n6/full/nn.3108.html
Norbert Wiener http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener (related to the bus stop)
For newcomers you can review what we did before on our wiki page http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Brussels_meetup_group
Potential materials for discussions :
building “trails” of LW articles for newcomers or not people who just want a “refresh” (if some are motivated I’ll bring my laptop)
Alzheimer as diabetes type 3 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/10/alzheimers-junk-food-catastrophic-effect
AGI leader AMA http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/zq56m/im_dr_ben_goertzel_artificial_general/
Hacking EEG devices https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity12/sec12-final56.pdf
weekly collapse http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/9/10/we-are-now-one-year-and-counting-from-global-riots-complex-systems-theorists-say--2
emotions/rationality http://lesswrong.com/lw/hp/feeling_rational/
ReflectOns:Mental Prostheses for Self-Reflection http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2012/09/10/sajid-sadi-thesis-defense http://fluid.media.mit.edu/people/sajid/current/reflectons.html
Zin-Side Out, the desire to conform to popular opinion http://blog.media.mit.edu/2012/07/zin-side-out.html
la France des deconnectes http://fr.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14247437
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: The Podcast http://www.hpmorpodcast.com
Mapping The Next Three Decades of Health Technology http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680532/mapping-the-next-three-decades-of-health-technology
Rosenhan experiment or “On being sane in insane places.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
Seems that the conclusion of http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/a3c/pooling_resources_for_valuable_actuarial/ were that it’s not that useful at the individual scale...
Didn’t know there was a Paris Meetup, great. I won’t be able to participate but I shared it on http://forum.transhumanistes.com/t827-meetup-lesswrong-a-paris-le-1er-septembre#7773
Towards Safe Robots: Approaching Asimov’s 1st Law
AFAIK once the registration is open (15th of August) anybody can purchase a ticket.
I would like to discuss the bayesian framework and AGI in relation to acturial “science” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuarial_science . The idea came from browsing Yudkowsky’s http://yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes with its “Fun fact” on finding priors. Actuaries overall rather than random folks on Kazaa seem to be some of the most interested (and probably well funded group) working on human behavior. Yes regarding physics, chemistry, etc it is not relevant yet, do we, as human beings in their daily life outside the research lab, have much affordance on those?
Let’s make the work of actuaries more useful for ourselves (and yes eventually an AGI).
PS: we could also discuss
http://lesswrong.com/lw/dvo/agi12_conference_in_oxford_in_december/
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428729/mathematics-of-sudoku-leads-to-richter-scale-of/ related to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-based_computation_game
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2112614
I agree and to be sincere when I posted it I wondered if the format was appropriate but I concluded that the content was and that is what matter.
PS: thanks, I just discovered http://www.reddit.com/r/lesswrong btw :)
the content is the link itself and because AFAIK they
are related to rationality
are different classes so if participants want to discuss they have their own topic
have never been posted here
A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior—free Coursera class
Critical Thinking in Global Challenges—free Coursera class
also we could discuss
patriotism since it’s Bastille Day in France
the complexity of thought, if complexity theory or economics can be used for cognition
Also since you like brain teasers consider http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428189/the-hardest-logic-puzzle-ever-made-even-harder/
Damn, I missed it assuming all Meetups would be on Saturday …