my non-interests

[gusl]

As a way of forging one's identity within the group, individuals try to be different than others. (while at the same time trying to conform, see Judith Harris).

This seems like a good way of seeing in what ways I differ from like-minded people:


Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in
1. game theory score: 19
I am not interested in game theory, but in its applications.

2. extropy score: 18
Not convinced that I should be optimistic, I prefer "transhumanism".

3. wittgenstein score: 17
I've read some stuff about him, but nothing appealing, although I like his view of philosophy as merely a language game.

4. ontology score: 15
I hope most of you had the CS-"ontology" in mind. In my view, the philosopher's sense of "ontology", i.e. "what really exists" is misguided.

5. free software score: 15
who isn't for free software??

6. machine learning score: 14
ok. I actually like machine learning. I used to be prejudiced against it, as a "fuzzy"/statistical/boring field.

7. genetic algorithms score: 14
AFAIK, GAs don't do very much without an "intelligent designer" behind it.

8. genetic programming score: 14
what is this??

9. memetics score: 14
I like the idea of memetics. But I already have "memes" as an interest.

10. extropianism score: 13
See #2

11. austrian economics score: 13
seems like libertarians' favorite "economics", since it justifies their prior beliefs. I don't see why economists belong to these different religions. Hasn't philosophy of science advanced far enough?

12. laissez faire score: 12
hm... libertarians.

13. utilitarianism score: 11
I'm a "utilitarian".

14. life extension score: 11
I like this, actually.

15. cypherpunks score: 11
I know nothing about them.

16. social engineering score: 11
Ok. This is cool.

17. natural language processing score: 11
Ok. I should use this one and avoid the ambiguous "nlp".

18. biotechnology score: 10
Don't know much about it.

19. singularity score: 10
I'm afraid of it.

20. cryonics score: 10
Hopefully it won't be necessary.

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Re: Genetic Programming

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

if you mean improving automated programming, I don't know what the state-of-the-art is.

I want to know where the bottleneck is in the development of AI, and I think it's in formalizing cognitive processes: we make real progress in increasing *intelligence* when we put effort into this, and AFAIK this is not the case with other endeavours that go by the name of "AI".