Category Archives: Thoughts

A Description of Egoism and the Singularity

By Raelifin | Published: April 5, 2011

I need to post what I write. I write often, to myself and to others, but so very often I feel as though the ideas and statements inside are somehow not worth publishing. This blog was only ever intended as a personal space; I have no obligation to post here, or any professional interest. So [...]

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The Ideal Choice

By Raelifin | Published: March 27, 2011

In Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman there’s a part where Feynman is getting reimbursement for having flown to San Fransisco to be on a state board to decide the books they’d use in schools…

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Cooperative Disagreement

By Raelifin | Published: February 28, 2011

This post is in many ways a response to Being Right and Knowing It on Rysade’s Blog “Iteration”. In other ways it is an attempt to remind myself of my ideals in the wake of failing them a couple nights ago when debating genetic engineering. When some Jehovah’s Witnesses come to my door and ask [...]

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Tic-Tac-Oh What’s The Point…

By Raelifin | Published: February 9, 2011

I’m right now working on building a reasoning agent. Given a model of the environment and a set of goals, it will attempt to take the best action. As a basic test, I have a model of a game of Tic-Tac-Toe for it to play against itself. For a long time my agent was picking [...]

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Questiondump Jan 2011

By Raelifin | Published: January 22, 2011

Just because I felt like I wasn’t alienating enough people on the internet, I posted 10 times in a row to Twitter. The following is a list of questions that I am currently working on to varying degrees. Many of them have answers in textbooks, others are on the cutting edge, and others probably will [...]

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