I am very curious what will come out of this. Does Kurzweil really have some insightful ideas that will help advance AI? He used to be quite the technocrat, but I have the feeling that he is more a philosopher these days than a technical person. But maybe progress toward a new philosophical approach is exactly what the AI needs... comments sought!
If it is... I hope they do not crash the system with the test.
Be sure to check out the actual reseach papers linked in the article! I would have linked to them directly, but the article is full of follow-on links of considerable interest.
(I currently obtain food partially through restaurants and partially through a combination of fruit, hard-boiled eggs, and whey protein.)
You poor bastard.... Life is too short to eat whey protein.
I recommend you do learn how to cook, you may well find you enjoy it.
I offer the following:
Approach cooking as a hobby, not a chore. Aim for deliciousness every time and take pride in your craft!
Eat with friends and/or family, often. For these ocdasions, make foods that scale well: stews, shepherd's pie, tuna pasta bake, meatloaf etc. Make those, and invite others over.
When you eat on your own: salads and stir-fry dishes are quick, healthy and yummy. A sandwich press (cafe style with flat top and bottom), is great for crispy bacon, fast steak/hamburgers (and toasted sandwiches).
A buddy got himself a full set of James Bond films(except Skyfall). First one was made in 1962, last one in 2008.
Watching them one after another feels a little like time travel. The technology! The cars! The fashion! The furnishings! The hair! Even the behaviour, you can see them all changing at 10000x the actual speed. Try it yourself, tell me what you think.
What languages do you speak well enough to fully benefit from instruction in those languages?
...formal learning can fill time in a way that's almost as wasteful as video games...
I would like to point out that:
...and express a wish that video games are not used as a proxy for "evil time wasting".
Neither land mines nor pit-traps are "autonomous robotic weapons" of course. But speaking of precedent, there are numerous campaigns to ban land mines (eg. http://www.icbl.org/), for reasons which are rather similar to those advanced in "The Case against Killer Robots".
This rather serious report should be of interest to LW. It argues that autonomous robotic weapons which can kill a human without an explicit command from a human operator ("Human-Out-Of-The-Loop" weapons) should be banned, at an international level.
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You know, this seems socially naive to me, in a way characteristic of ideallistic young introverts. People do not usually respond well if you offer to pay for stuff they would otherwise enjoy doing for free, under the right circumstances (such as reciprocal dinner invites).
But I may be wrong, give it a try and report on the results, one of us will probably learn something.