Comment author: ciphergoth 19 July 2015 10:45:01AM 1 point [-]

Superb, thanks! Did you create this, or is there a way I could have found this for myself? Cheers :)

Comment author: mindbound 19 July 2015 10:59:40AM 1 point [-]

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Comment author: ciphergoth 19 July 2015 09:57:54AM 1 point [-]

Could someone be kind enough to share the text of Stuart Russell's interview with Science here?

Fears of an AI pioneer
John Bohannon
Science 17 July 2015: Vol. 349 no. 6245 pp. 252
DOI:10.1126/science.349.6245.252
<http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6245/252.full>

Quoted here

From the beginning, the primary interest in nuclear technology was the "inexhaustible supply of energy". The possibility of weapons was also obvious. I think there is a reasonable analogy between unlimited amounts of energy and unlimited amounts of intelligence. Both seem wonderful until one thinks of the possible risks. In neither case will anyone regulate the mathematics. The regulation of nuclear weapons deals with objects and materials, whereas with AI it will be a bewildering variety of software that we cannot yet describe. I'm not aware of any large movement calling for regulation either inside or outside AI, because we don't know how to write such regulation.

Comment author: mindbound 19 July 2015 10:38:18AM 4 points [-]
In response to Where are we?
Comment author: ciphergoth 02 April 2009 09:52:35PM 3 points [-]

Post in this thread if you live in Europe.

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Comment author: mindbound 01 July 2011 04:09:23PM 0 points [-]

Riga, LV.

Comment author: Rip 27 August 2007 04:07:39AM -2 points [-]

Black holes, dark matter and dark energy seem to pretty much fit this description. They are, after all, inventions tacked on to calculations, in order to make theory and calculation fit observations.

Comment author: mindbound 01 December 2010 04:08:28PM 1 point [-]

It seems somewhat hard to understand why are black holes being included in this list - for objects that by their definition cannot be observed directly, there certainly seems to be a whole lot of a solid observational evidence for their existence, both in the case of stellar and supermassive ones.

Comment author: JamesAndrix 06 August 2010 06:08:01AM 0 points [-]

Firenze/Hagrid?

Comment author: mindbound 12 August 2010 03:11:31AM 0 points [-]

It should feel at least somehow wrong but it actually does not. Then again, I suspect that most "happenings" that include Hagrid could pretty soon end with a grave medical emergency of some sort, generating copious amounts of squick.

Luna/Draco/Karkaroff?

Comment author: gjm 09 August 2010 08:11:47PM 1 point [-]

But the Hedwig can never be ...

Comment author: mindbound 12 August 2010 02:46:39AM 1 point [-]

Oh yes, she can be. Even hedgehogs and porcupines can be, contrary to a somewhat popular opinion.