avichapman

I've just started my journey toward a PhD in machine learning. My first steps are in computer vision. But my long term goal is to be able to help in the effort to solve the alignment problem and produce Friendly AI before any non-friendly alternatives emerge. What sort of trajectory...

I was recently reading a blog here, that referenced a paper done in 1999 by Baba Shiv and Alex Fedorikhin (Heart and Mind in Conflict: The Interplay of Affect and Cognition in Consumer Decision Making). In it, volunteers are asked to memorise short or long numbers and then asked to...

I wrote the following on my blog last night. I thought that I'd run it past an intelligent audience. Note that what I have referred to as an idea is what we here at lesswrong would call a 'belief'. I changed the name to remove any strange foggy baggage that...

Hi all, This is a follow-up to a previous post of mine - 'A digitized belief network?'. I have now created a discussion group for anyone who wants to discuss the problems involved in creating a digital representation of a human's beliefs. Anyone who is interested in joining us can...

Hello to all, Like the rest of you, I'm an aspiring rationalist. I'm also a software engineer. I design software solutions automatically. It's the first place my mind goes when thinking about a problem. Today's problem is the fact that our beliefs all rest on beliefs that rest on beliefs....