Alexandros

Most discussion of uploading talks of uploading from the inside out: simply, a biological person undergoes a disruptive procedure which digitises their mind. The digital mind then continues the person’s timeline as a digital existence, with all that entails. The thing that stands out here is the disruptive nature of...

You can find it here. Earlier today I wanted to quantify whether lesswrong has stopped being a well kept garden. So I wrote a scraper to produce the above dataset, so that anyone that wants to do the analysis, can. All data is as of a few minutes ago. For...

I recently saw Ashton Kutcher's annotation of a speech by Steve Jobs on RapGenius. For those that haven't heard of it, RapGenius is a content annotation platform, where the "Rap" part is purely incidental. The format seems quite interesting, so I wondered what the LessWrong community could do if allowed...

I have been given the opportunity to prepare a workshop for the General Assembly team in London. General Assembly is geared towards education of entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs and have been very successful in New York, now expanding to London. The workshops are 90 minutes long, and usually gather anywhere...

Discussion article for the meetup : London This Sunday WHEN: 16 October 2011 02:00:00PM (+0100) WHERE: Africa House/64-68 Kingsway, London, WC2B 6BG We're meeting up in London this weekend. Sunday 16th October, at 2pm, in the Shakespeares Head on Kingsway near Holborn Tube station. We're usually easy to spot and...

Shulman on Superorgs Best to read the link first and my comments later. I have very little to comment on the topic itself, but I do find it odd that Robin takes such a confrontational stance, beginning from the first sentence "It has come to my attention that some think...