[ExI] Translation AI (was dying?)

[William Flynn Wallace]

bill w wrote     > I fully agree.  But a lot of people seem to be so
impatient to hook
> themselves up to PCs and whatnot to improve their abilities, then get
> implants, etc.  What for?

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adrian wrote
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To improve their abilities, presumably.

N
​ow if by improve you mean just more storage, I think that's wrong.  That's
why we have the internet and ways to reach any kind of answer we want in a
very short time.  Probably there will a gadget such that we can ask it for
an answer and get it back in a few seconds - something wearable like an
earbud.

What would improve would be an AI implant that catches our cognitive biases
and other errors, does Bayesian calculations​, and so on.  We have plenty
of storage.  We don't have better ways of thinking.  Right now all we can
do is to try to change the brain we have, like your learning to learn
course.

bill w

On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 8:12 AM, William Flynn Wallace
> <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > (out of all the hundreds of scifi books I've read I don't know how I
> missed
> > radiotelepathy)
>
> It's a rare concept, and I am not certain "radiotelepathy" is in fact
> the dominant term for it.  But I've seen it in multiple places.
>
> > I fully agree.  But a lot of people seem to be so impatient to hook
> > themselves up to PCs and whatnot to improve their abilities, then get
> > implants, etc.  What for?
>
> To improve their abilities, presumably.
>
> > Intro courses are for learning basic terminology, facts, and theories.
> Some
> > rote memory testing is inevitable, but I say leave that behind as fast as
> > possible and get to the 'learning to learn' that you mentioned.
>
> FWIW, https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn is one form
> of what I'm talking about.  Anyone generally capable of taking an
> online course (for instance, literate in the traditional and computer
> senses) can skip to this right away.  (I double-checked the link, and
> there may be a paywall now, but when I took this course it was free.
> There might still be an option to take the course w/out the
> Certificate they're mentioning.)
>
> I would not mind hearing others' opinion of the course (as revised:
> it's been a while since I took it), if anyone wants to try.
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