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Singularity Summit 2011 Notes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The #SS11<\/a> videos are going to be at http:\/\/vimeo.com\/siai<\/a><\/p>\n

Day 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kurzweil<\/a>:<\/p>\n

> TO-POST: Post about the the continuity of consciousness.<\/p>\n

Watson is coded in Java, was built for massive parallelization with support for internet parallelization, and runs on linux.<\/p>\n

Creating horizontal AI solutions is key to billion dollar achievements.<\/p>\n

Watson is a horizontal AI computer.<\/p>\n

> Get book on 3d-priting. Another technological revolution. Get a 3d printer, start a 3d printshop (brick & mortar bizmodel)<\/p>\n

==
\nStephen Babdylak<\/a>: Regenerative Medicine.<\/p>\n

The immune system is a trade off to organ regeneration capabilities that we have when we are in gestation.<\/p>\n

Constructive Cell Infiltrate, through different approaches, cells, scaffolding, drugs.<\/p>\n

Scaffolds are put in place of the injury<\/p>\n

==
\nSonia Arrison<\/a>: 100 Plus.<\/p>\n

Biology has become an engineering project, DNA Reverse engineering.<\/p>\n

Adult-lescent <- My friend xxxxxx\n\nKuznets curve<\/a>. Explains how new technologies create problems like pollution that we eventually solve once we have enough income to care about it. It’s all about the trade off.<\/p>\n

==
\nPeter Thiel<\/a> talks about the future.<\/p>\n

I’m beginning to think that the main character of the movie “Limitless” (actually the book “Dark Fields”) was inspired on Peter Thiel.<\/p>\n

“The globalization story without technology simply does not work” Peter Thiel #SingularitySummit<\/p>\n

“We gotta search WHERE the singularity will happen” Peter Thiel #SingularitySummit<\/p>\n

“You become an entrepreneur in order to solve a problem” Peter Thiel #SS11 <\/p>\n

“When you think the future is indeterminate and probabilistic, you don’t think about the specifics” Peter Thiel #SS11<\/p>\n

Thiel on green energy: “like if amazon said they’ll sell books that cost twice as much and ship in six months but with govt subsidies” #ss11<\/p>\n

“The lowest-hanging fruit in preventative medicine is just to really focus on nutrition.” -Peter Thiel<\/p>\n

“We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.” —Peter Thiel<\/p>\n

“the way people deal with death is probably the paradigm example of denial” -Peter Thiel #ss11<\/p>\n

“Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.” -Peter Thiel #ss11<\/p>\n

“A lot of the key to Apple’s succes is Designing technology in order to hide it.” -Peter Thiel #SS11<\/p>\n

==<\/p>\n

Michael Shermer<\/a>: Social Singularity (Skeptic society Magazine)<\/p>\n

Recommends Book
\nSteven Pinker<\/a>: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
\n(TO-DO: finish Pinker’s the Blank Slate)<\/p>\n

Inequalities are decreasing.<\/p>\n

We’re all King Louis Thanks to Markets.<\/p>\n

1st Moral Principle – Be nice to your kind.<\/p>\n

@michaelshermer predicts the banning of birth control by the end of this century #SS11<\/p>\n

2nd Moral Principle – Reciprocity<\/p>\n

3rd – The golden rule.<\/p>\n

Cooperation decays without punishment.<\/p>\n

People (nations) have become more civilized through exposure and trade
\n(don’t bomb your chipmaker nation)<\/p>\n

The spread of science. Scientific thinking if more abstract, & abstract reasoning expands the evolutionary circle of sentiments.<\/p>\n

spread liberal democracy, internet, science. the moral “flyn” effect (increase of IQ through spreading these)<\/p>\n

Global Civilization 2.0 – Free Minds, Free Markets<\/p>\n

==<\/p>\n

James McLurkin<\/a>: \u201cThe Future of Robotics is Swarms: Why a Thousand Robots are Better Than One\u201d<\/p>\n

Kiva System: Warehouse Distribution is done through robot swarms. Wow.<\/p>\n

==<\/p>\n

Stephen Wolfram<\/a><\/p>\n

Rule 30<\/a>.
\nPrinciple of Equivalent Computation<\/a>.
\nThe systems we see in nature are computationally reduceable.<\/p>\n

He questions that complex signals coming from the cosmos might not be associated to intelligence,
\nthey could be the product of simple patterns. Happened already with Tesla’s signals from mars.<\/p>\n

So much of human motivation is tied to mortality, what will we choose to do once we’ve achieved it?<\/p>\n

the universe is not as complex as it could be, cause after all there is order in it. <\/p>\n

Maybe It’s possible to hold a little program that holds our universe. He’s been running models
\nwith simple rules to find the fundamental program of the universe.<\/p>\n

Computational irreducibility implies the universe could be a simple computer program. <\/p>\n

—
\nYou cannot have a future that you cannot yet imagine.<\/p>\n

My hope for the future is to not die.<\/p>\n

We’re the only animal that knows it’ll die.
\n—
\nJason Silva<\/a><\/p>\n

“The cosmos is speaking through us.” -Jason Silva<\/p>\n

Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.<\/p>\n

The computer is the LSD of the 90s.<\/p>\n

We’re animals in a technological shell (after the creation of culture)<\/p>\n

Being inspired is the antidote to existential dispair. – Jason Silva.<\/p>\n

There’s a huge business creating media related to the singularity, people will love this, and hate this.<\/p>\n

—
\nDmitry Itskov<\/a>: Project Immortality 2045<\/p>\n

Founded movement 7 months ago.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/2045.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Instead of competing to get into space first and build better missiles, the US and Russia should compete to achieve immortality first!<\/p>\n

Goal of Itkskov’s Neohumanity: allow everyone to become multi-bodied. #ss11<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Christof Koch<\/a>: \u201cThe Neurobiology and Mathematics of Consciousness\u201d<\/p>\n

The content of consciousness must be distinguised from States of Consciousness.<\/p>\n

You don’t need language for consciousness.<\/p>\n

Anatomically, our brain is made of the same stuff than that of a dog, or a whale.
\nWhales have more than us, so what makes us special? It’s still a mistery according to Koch.<\/p>\n

When answering a question he said: “The theory is neutral on the substrate.”<\/p>\n

@romrod recommends http:\/\/www.samharris.org\/blog\/item\/the-mystery-of-consciousness\/<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Eliezer Yudkows<\/a><\/p>\n

Godel Machine, step 7 is the hardest.<\/p>\n

Meta-meta AI
\n—<\/p>\n

Max Tegmark<\/a>: \u201cThe Future of Life: a Cosmic Perspective\u201d<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Alexander Wissner-Gross: \u201cPlanetary-Scale Intelligence\u201d
\nhttp:\/\/www.alexwg.org<\/a><\/p>\n

He sees the AI singularity coming out of the markets, and proposes
\na blueprint for management of the full singularity.<\/p>\n

Then he compares the Quantitative Finance strategy with a corresponding
\nAI (AGI) strategy.<\/p>\n

Quantitative Finance, to model human group behavior to efficiently allocate capital.<\/p>\n

The first emergence of super AI will be coupled to capitals and quantitative advertising (Google Adsense)<\/p>\n

High frequency trading is driving the infrastructure to lower latency.<\/p>\n

Vasicek process<\/a> (Simplest possible model)<\/p>\n

He coined an optimal solution as to where (physically) to be placed to coordinate trading.<\/p>\n

We may already be seeing the first wave of AI regulation.<\/p>\n

Darwinism is ubiquitous in financial industry – Wissner-Gross<\/p>\n

—
\nSharon Bertsch McGrayne<\/a>: \u201cA History of Bayes’ Theorem\u201d<\/p>\n

—
\nDavid Brin<\/a>: \u201cSo you want to make gods. Now why would that bother anybody?\u201d<\/p>\n

Recommends to watch\/read HG Wells “Things to come<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Taught us how to speak to the people that is afraid of Science.
\n—<\/p>\n

Tyler Cowen<\/a>: “The Great Stagnation”<\/p>\n

When the individual mind can see a bigger part of something, it sees that innovation is easier.<\/p>\n

Individual minds no longer grasp science.<\/p>\n

“If we had to build today’s energy infrastructure with today’s regulation it’d be impossible.” -Twyler Cowen<\/p>\n

—
\nTyler Cowen & Michael Vassar<\/a> Debate The Great Stagnation<\/p>\n

Didn’t agree much with his vision, although yes, technology is probably behind and not performing
\nor doing the things that it should be doing.<\/p>\n

Vassar co-founded http:\/\/sirgroovy.com\/<\/a> Music Licensing alternative, not yet launched. Will launch in november.<\/p>\n

—
\nJohn Mauldin<\/a>: \u201cThe Endgame Meets The Millennium Wave \u2014 Why the Economic Crisis will be History as We Create the Future\u201d<\/p>\n

The end game = the end of the super cycle.<\/p>\n

The key is wheter debt is excessive relative to income… and it sure is.<\/p>\n

“Get your surfboard and ride it, it’ll be more fun to ride it than let it (next wave) hit you” –John Mauldin #SS11<\/p>\n

The aggregator of innovation technology news will be key once the rate of innovation is almost impossible to catch up.<\/p>\n

Short annuities cause there screwed.<\/p>\n

Geo political realities are going to change, 2 new billion new consumers, massive infrastructure build out, abuntant resources,
\na revolution in retirement.<\/p>\n

—
\nRiley Crane<\/a>: Science of Engagement & Rethinking Communication.<\/p>\n

The longer you wait to do something, the longer you’ll keep waiting to do it.<\/p>\n

Gotta make things easy for people to act immediatly. Then give them the right incentives.<\/p>\n

Google’s search suggestion is analogue to worn organic paths in the grass.<\/p>\n

—
\nScott Brown and Dileep George<\/a>: \u201cFrom Planes to Brains: Building AI the Wright Way\u201d<\/p>\n

Vicarious<\/a><\/p>\n

If you sever one part of the brain and put it into another part, it’s compatible.
\nAnatomically the same or close to being the same.<\/p>\n

Instead of asking what are the algorithms, we should be asking what are the assumptions.<\/p>\n

computation, communication, living functions. (I’d take out living functions, and keep only computation and communication, and drive out redundancies and inneficiencies of a biological model)<\/p>\n

(Triangle, they say you gotta use all the three)
\nThe cortex has hierarchy.
\nWorld data can also be arranged in structures. (obviously)
\nComputation<\/p>\n

modeling only the brain = blue project<\/p>\n

data + computation = machine learning<\/p>\n

only a few others are looking at it all. <\/p>\n

Comparing the problem to building a plane.<\/p>\n

Take the problem and replicate it, iterate it over different complexity levels.<\/p>\n

“Solve the problem in the right order” (reminds me also of “order” as in complexity)<\/p>\n

(When doing liguistic analysis, you should have a graph with a reasonable number of available actions for the nodes in the proposition)<\/p>\n

Sent them a message.<\/p>\n

—
\nJaan Tallinn<\/a>: \u201cBalancing the Trichotomy: Individual vs. Society vs. Universe\u201d<\/p>\n

“So this is how it feels like to be responsible of the majority of internet traffic out there” -Jaan Tallinn (on Kazaa times,applause) #SS11<\/p>\n

Level 3 people. Sane. Singularitarian? Rationalist? Sane?<\/p>\n

CL3 Generation Movement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

There seems to be a correlation between the age of the people and the hability to understand CL3 movement.<\/p>\n

Fight Dilution: If you belong to CL3 gen, you’re likely surrounded by peers that don’t know what the issues are or don’t care.
\nDeclare intentions: being predictable can be good to get others to approach you (or fuck you)
\nBuild meme: sending the message.<\/p>\n

Donor: not just money, but people looking to employ CL3 people.<\/p>\n

Researchers: The ones that drive knowledge forward through investigaiton.<\/p>\n

Fund:<\/p>\n

The future of the world does not depend on society, depends with people with red buttons.<\/p>\n

We need the CL3 Generation.<\/p>\n

The future is increasingly dependent on individuals.<\/p>\n

Level 1 = Individual
\nLevel 2 = Current Society not looking for a change.
\nLevel 3 = Future Society
\nhe sounded like “Fuck Level 2”.<\/p>\n

==
\nDavid Ferrucci<\/a>: \u201cWatson AI Perceptions\u201d<\/p>\n

IBM Watson includes a “pun detector” developed by an independent researcher #ss11<\/p>\n

“One Jeopardy Q can take 2hrs on a single 2.6Ghz Core. Watson is answering 2-6 second.” You do the math. Wow! #SS11<\/p>\n

What Watson needed to compete with humans on Jeopardy!: 2,880 cores, 15TB RAM, 80kW of power, 20 tons A\/C. #SS11<\/p>\n

Ferrucci’s Watson not based on modeling human cognition. A parallel probabilistic machine. Lots of silicon needed to defeat Jennings. #ss11<\/p>\n

==
\nDan Cerutti<\/a>: \u201cCommercializing Watson\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about them contacting congress, they said not-yet, got massive applause from the audience.<\/p>\n

Watson runs on linux, and it’s parallelization is internet enabled. Watson could run over thousands of cores.<\/p>\n

Fuck IBM, I’m creating my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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