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Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 11:45:13 [Preview] No. 6375
How can I become as good at AI science as the famous and widely cited American computer scientist, decision theorist, philosopher, mathematician, science popularizer, writer and altruist Eliezer S. Yudkowsky?


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 11:49:02 [Preview] No.6385 del
>>6381
So, Java good, PhD in computer science bad


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 11:51:43 [Preview] No.6393 del
>>6386
>The Plan to Singularity

He really was serious about this


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 11:53:07 [Preview] No.6398 del
>>6386
>Flare is a proposal for a new programming language, the first annotative programming language, in which programs, data, and the program state are all represented as well-formed XML.

Lol, so late 90s/early 2000s

Too lazy to fill this out for Flare: https://famicol.in/language_checklist.html


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 11:53:23 [Preview] No.6399 del
>>6386
>>6398
Thankfully MIRI now accepts that type theory is the way, the truth, and the light. They even recruit from ICFP now, I met some of them there last year. How far they have come from the ignominious beginnings of "Flare"!


Anonymous 08/13/2019 (Tue) 11:53:39 [Preview] No.6400 del
>>6398
The most obvious candidate is of course
>[ ] You have reinvented Lisp but worse
The similarities to Lisp are constantly stressed, which makes it all the much funnier to run into the sentence
>I have substantial experience in C++ but none whatsoever in LISP



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