Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 17 April 2013 01:10:02AM 8 points [-]

It is no longer clear to me what you mean by "taboo." Can you, erm, taboo this?

Comment author: amacfie 17 April 2013 03:13:45AM 1 point [-]

Any particular reason why you write "erm" even though (I assume) you don't have a British accent?

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 31 January 2013 12:59:11PM 9 points [-]

To me, "Machine Intelligence" sounds less worn than "Artificial Intelligence", and also seems to more strongly imply that they're talking about general intelligence rather than narrow AI. But I don't know whether those were the actual reasons.

Comment author: amacfie 31 January 2013 05:46:49PM 3 points [-]

I was under the impression that this use of the word "machine" was archaic -- it was used decades ago for naming things like machine learning, machine translation, and the Association for Computing Machinery. I don't immediately see why a more familiar term wasn't used.

Comment author: amacfie 31 January 2012 02:16:19PM *  0 points [-]
In response to 2011 Survey Results
Comment author: amacfie 05 December 2011 02:21:33PM 13 points [-]

So people just got silly with the IQ field again.

Meetup : Ottawa Weekly Monday LessWrong Meetup

2 amacfie 21 November 2011 03:51AM

Discussion article for the meetup : Ottawa Weekly Monday LessWrong Meetup

WHEN: 21 November 2011 07:30:00PM (-0500)

WHERE: Pub Italia: 434 Preston St, Ottawa, ON

We will be discussing more sections from Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity by Scott Aaronson.

Discussion article for the meetup : Ottawa Weekly Monday LessWrong Meetup

Comment author: amacfie 03 November 2011 01:26:52AM 6 points [-]

I thought it was nanoweapons, not gray goo, that was the risk of nanotechnology.

Comment author: amacfie 27 July 2011 11:50:07PM 1 point [-]

well, for discussion, there is

http://lesswrong.com/lw/6nz/approving_reinforces_loweffort_behaviors/

which looks interesting (to me)

Comment author: amacfie 30 May 2011 12:09:57AM 1 point [-]

Do math contest problems from the different areas of math covered by the IMO and start at your current level of ability and work from there.

Find problems from books, previous contests and forums like Art of Problem Solving.

Comment author: amacfie 26 April 2011 06:06:54PM 0 points [-]

Is parking easy to find around there?

Comment author: amacfie 24 March 2011 08:38:18PM 3 points [-]

So does this have anything to do with the Visiting Fellows Program? It isn't a replacement, is it?

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