Given my experience with ML and NLP, I would say that
1) psychometric and ML techniques are not going to be able to find
subtle stuff or make subtle manipulations
2) these methods are going to require expert utilization ... expert
selection of features for the algorithms, expert decision on what
Why give AGI the credit when it remains the work of smart people who figured
out how to automate public opinion? The logic for this is at least 10 years old.
This does not qualify the machine to be credited with consciousness. I think it
more resembles a magic show, where it uses illusions to tr
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AI won for Brexit AND Trump!
Namely Cambridge Analytica, whose most public face is Steve Bannon.
https://scout.ai/story/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine
The good news is that this administration is likely going to be pro-AI,
becau
Every time you are about to fall asleep, you (the awareness that is
observing and identifying with the "Jim Bromer" input stream) is
decoupled from this particular experience. With a little bit of practice
you can learn to control what happens after said decoupling and it
becomes obvious that y
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Jim Bromer wrote:
>> A human being is nothing but a very complex rock. Both are just
>> objects/processes happening within consciousness without requiring anybody
>> to "do them". There is nobody doing "Jim Bromer".
>
> Whaaa??? Wait a minute...I'm not sure I concu
> A human being is nothing but a very complex rock. Both are just
> objects/processes happening within consciousness without requiring anybody
> to "do them". There is nobody doing "Jim Bromer".
Whaaa??? Wait a minute...I'm not sure I concur with that either...
Jim Bromer
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at
Consciousness is not a physical byproduct. Your experience of this
physical reality happens within and is a "byproduct" of consciousness
just like Super Mario implemented in FPGA is a "byproduct" of and
happening within FPGA. Rocks, cars, cats and human beings appear within
consciousness - rock
Well again you are talking about interesting concepts like passive
consciousness (or low phi - that's a great expression). But does that
actually make sense? Wouldn't passive consciousness be zombie like?
You are suggesting that there may be something in between but which
has very limited effects.
