Chris Capel
I'm Chris Capel. I was a Seed AI Programmer Wannabe (So You Want To Be A Seed AI Programmer). I realize now that besides being rather young and not very mathematical, my emotional characteristics are such that dedicating myself to an altruistic pursuit would be wholly unnatural to me. While the possibility remains that I would be suited to the job given the right conditions, I have decided that my emotional shortcomings disqualify me for any serious, self-motivated work (of any kind) in the next ten years.
I write in the Lisp Programming Language, and in the past I have done things at the debatemodeling.org site. pdf23ds.net is a forward to the personal section of that site, and may in the future have its own identity. I'm very straightforward and not modest at all, though I hopefully know my limitations, and very self-revalatory. In case you hadn't noticed. I really don't feel the need to hide anything about myself, in general. Honesty is the best policy, in a relationship of peers.
My main efforts right now concern reading lots of stuff about Singularity related issues so that I can have an informed opinion on them, and otherwise wasting my time. In fact, anything anyone does is a waste of time, in one sense, because there's always something better they could be doing with their time (if only marginally). Therefore, nothing they're actually *doing* is optimal. So I don't worry about it.
(october 2004) I just became enlightened tonight. I realized that many, most, or all of the errors that humans make in their rational arguments are special cases of--or are directly caused by--the evil of defining things instead of describing them. Making categories and stuffing reality into them, instead of simply observing the world. I realize, as well, that the fundamental strength, and the essence itself, of the whole scientific revolution is that people realized the value of describing things first, then defining them, categorizing them, to the minimum extent necessary to code them in human language (or inventing a new language to express them).
The realization that definitions (categorizations) are but artifacts of our particular mode of representing reality, and that we can avoid distorting our perceptions to the extent that we minimize the negative interference of definitions with our observance and understanding of the world, is the root of all knowledge. Unfortunately, this vice manifests itself in myraid and deeply subtle ways, so its elimination from my own thought will probably never be complete.
(november 2004) Ha! I found out that the site reciprocality.org, besides likely being of general interest to anyone of a singulatarian bent, exactly echos this sentiment of mine in its mapper/packer distinction. Heh. Besides my own observation, I've also observed isomorphism between reciprocality's ideas and the observation of the general apathy of the American populace (as well as others), and a few other ideas. Seriously, check out this site.
I wonder to what extent categorization is a necessary feature of General Intelligence, and how a specific knowledge of its limitations could allow a seed AI programmer to help mitigate its ill effects in a GAI by programming features that took into account specific situations in which categorization is more likely to lead to errors in reasoning.
I have a Gmail account. pdf23ds. Also my IRC handle.
The answer to your final question is implicit in the statement 'the scientific method is just a special case of Bayesian reasoning'.
- Starglider
R.I.P. Chris; we miss you! :-(
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