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curiousepic comments on Q&A with new Executive Director of Singularity Institute - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: lukeprog 07 November 2011 04:58AM

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Comment author: curiousepic 07 November 2011 04:50:28PM *  15 points [-]

I disagree completely, as video has value not present in text, and text is easily derived from video. If this has not been done for Eliezer's videos, I volunteer to transcribe them - please let me know.

Comment author: cousin_it 07 November 2011 11:57:27PM *  16 points [-]

I just tried to find a transcript for Eliezer's Q&A and couldn't find one. So I'm taking you up on your offer!

Also, video is easily derived from text and I would actually enjoy watching a SingInst Q&A made with that sort of app :-)

Comment author: curiousepic 08 November 2011 04:35:01AM *  21 points [-]

Looks like you're right. I commit to working on this over the next few weeks. Please check in with me every so often (via comment here would be fine) to gauge my progress and encourage completion.

It's approximately 120 minutes of video; taking a number from wikipedia gives me 150 spoken wpm, divided by my typing wpm gives me about 6 hours, which will be optimistic - let's double it to 12, at let's say an average of 30 mins per day gives me 24 days. Let's see how it goes!

Comment author: cousin_it 09 November 2011 09:46:15AM 3 points [-]

Checking in. Do you have the first 750 words done?

Comment author: curiousepic 09 November 2011 02:02:50PM *  7 points [-]

I have the first four, and six of the shortest answers done, so yes. I had a lot of spare time yesterday so I thought I'd get a head start. Today may be similar.

Comment author: curiousepic 11 November 2011 02:11:56AM 5 points [-]

I am now roughly 60% done. I've been spending more time each day than I anticipated; I have been known to overcompensate for the planning fallacy :)

Comment author: mindspillage 09 November 2011 04:44:30AM 2 points [-]

That's what you consider "easily derived"?

Comment author: curiousepic 09 November 2011 02:00:26PM *  5 points [-]

Relative to manifesting video of the person speaking the answers in a genuine manner after the fact, yes. But point taken, the irony of manually transcribing videos from an AI researcher is not lost on me. I feel somewhat like a monk in the Bayesian monastery.

Comment author: alibaba 11 November 2011 01:43:18AM 0 points [-]

Why not just play the audio to something like the Dragon Dictation app on an iPhone and then go back and proof it?

Comment author: curiousepic 11 November 2011 04:08:12AM *  1 point [-]

I'm skeptical of the time it would save. The app won't work for the length of the videos, but if you're aware of another great, free program, let me know.