JohnWittle comments on Applause Lights - Less Wrong

88 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 September 2007 06:31PM

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Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 11 September 2007 09:12:26PM 9 points [-]

I remember at the AGIRI workshop in DC last year, Alexei Samsonovich talked about sorting a list of English words along two dimensions - "valence" and "arousal," indicating some component of the emotional response which words evoke.

Maybe audiences respond to speeches by summing the emotion vectors of each word in the speech, rather than parsing sentences.

Quick test: who here is excited by the prospects of anthropic quantum computing?

Comment author: JohnWittle 05 September 2012 04:27:14PM 1 point [-]

anthropic quantum computing? if i were flipping through the channels and heard that phrase uttered by someone who looked like he was giving a speech, i would be immediate interested in learning more and would definitely stay on the channel. I have no idea what the phrase means, but my immediate guesses are indeed exciting.