[ExI] Test post

[SR Ballard]

Testing to see if I can send.

It's not my fault it was only called googlemail when I first got one XD

> On May 17, 2017, at 22:53, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It is entirely possible to build an organic radio receptor.
> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369702106714444 has
> a bunch of links for organic circuit elements; it's a short hop from
> there to organic radio transceivers.
> 
> I've been trying not to spam about CubeCab, which is taking more of my
> time these days.  (Most of the day tomorrow, in fact.)  Although, I
> can think of one on-topic anecdote from just this past weekend about
> the state of translation AI.
> 
> We're presenting at the Paris Air Show next month, specifically June
> 23rd.  I'm not going myself because I've got another presentation the
> preceding week and might have another one the weekend of the 23rd
> (details likely to be fluid until that weekend), but I am trying to
> coordinate logistics.  Part of that is coming up with a pair of
> free-standing posters for the booth.
> 
> Currently we're thinking one will be all pictures and symbols, and the
> other will have text.  PAS asked that the text one be English on one
> side and French on the other, and to send them our posters' images for
> review.  (The deadline to submit was last Monday.  I assume this was
> so anyone who doesn't meet their standards has a month to redo.)  I do
> not speak French, but Google Translate does.
> 
> The English text came out as kind of a manifesto.  (I can C&P the
> English & French text here if anyone asks - but I'll only do it if
> asked, to make sure it isn't spam.)  I auto-translated it into French,
> translated the result back into English to catch the few sentences
> that needed restating (just changed the word choices until the
> translation loop came up with something close enough to the original),
> and submitted it to PAS for review.
> 
> I gather the PAS guys are in France and probably native French
> speakers, from their names, email addresses, and general contact
> information.  I very strongly suspect they have nontrivial quality
> standards: the Paris Air Show is the largest in the world (in the
> odd-numbered years its held in; there's another European one in
> even-numbered years), with representatives from all the major air
> forces and aerospace companies, so the organizers are unlikely to
> half-ass stuff.  This is likely to be the strongest test of French
> skills that I and any automation I use* will face in the immediate
> future.
> 
> The simple round-trip translation and correction produced results good
> enough for them.  The only cost to me, the business owner needing to
> meet foreign marketing standards, was less than an extra half hour of
> my time - and now I have (kind of) written a manifesto in French, like
> many a proper revolutionary.
> 
> * Notice how that comes off, BTW.  It's not "the robots do this for
> me", but "automation extends what I can do - and thus what I am
> responsible for, so the onus is on me to make sure I use it right".
> An increasing amount of this kind of experience leads me to suspect
> the Singularity will come via merging man and machine - perhaps
> involving mind uploading, or perhaps merely extreme cybernetics
> coupled with anti-aging advances - rather than AIs that never were
> human replacing humanity.
> 
> As such, I wonder if things like learning how to learn (which is
> starting to be taught formally), and being more aware of our own
> bio-mental architecture, are among the early glimmers of the
> Singularity.  What happens if someone discovers how to keep brain
> plasticity even in advanced age - and if we figure out how to make
> neurons transmit information faster, and that starts seeing wide
> adoption?
> 
> What does figuring out how to be smarter feel like, to yourself and to others?
> 
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 4:53 PM, William Flynn Wallace
> <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is this group just not interested any more?  Don't want new discussions of
>> perhaps old ideas?
>> 
>> Then I"ll post book reviews and health stuff - if no one objects.
>> 
>> To be fair, objectors have to post something themselves.
>> 
>> I can't believe all these brilliant minds don't have anything to say.
>> 
>> Am reading Nate Silver's book Signal and Noise.  Will never believe an
>> economist again.
>> 
>> Interesting if absurd idea:  can we build something organic that can receive
>> radio signals?
>> 
>> bill w
>> 
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