[ExI] Hello Kunvar [was : significant figures]

Tue Jan 21 22:21:46 UTC 2020

I enjoy Hockey (never played) and Competitive Weightlifting (did for 3 1/2 years). I also like Go, but almost never play and so I am absolutely terrible at it. 

I’m 26 and currently failing to do anything in life other than suffer from pneumonia, lol.

And Spike really will pull both your legs.

SR Ballard

> On Jan 21, 2020, at 3:32 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> You and I may be the only sports fans in the group.  I played and loved tennis, racquetball (no facility for squash but would love it) and golf.  Sci-fi, science nonfiction, any biology but esp. parasites, bacteria, viruses etc.  I am 78, retired, and read like you, several at a time. I am a social psychologist among all these STEM people.  I try to keep them straight, but am failing.   Watch out for Spike, he will pull both of your legs at the same time.  bill w
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>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 1:28 PM Kunvar Thaman via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> Hey all, I'm a new member!
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>> From: Kunvar Thaman <f20170964 at pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in>
>> Date: Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 12:23 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ExI] significant figures
>> To: Gregory Jones <spike at rainier66.com>
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>> Hey! 
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>> 1. I'm an undergrad in college at the moment. My majors are Electrical+Electronics engineering and Biology.
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>> 2. My major interests are in neurobiology, machine learning, and I spend a large (shamelessly large amount of time) solving all sorts of problems from a data perspective (see: Fermi Calculations).
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>> 3. I find it convenient and concise to write down my thoughts in points, makes me free to not use as many filler sentences, gives it structure, and more organized.
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>> 4. I enjoy reading lots of books. I mostly read them in parallel - I've got many books going on at any given time. The reason for doing this is that emotions are not constant throughout the day, and between days. Some days you just don't feel like reading some romantic book but just want to read more about that murder plot. Having many books open in parallel makes it interesting for me.
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>> 5. I watch football (soccer), tennis, squash (I play it for my univ also), and follow chess.
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>> &Kunvar
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>>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 12:11 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
>>> Kunvar, welcome!
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>>> Do tell us something about Kunvar please.  Where are ya from?  Where are ya headed?
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>>> From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Kunvar Thaman via extropy-chat
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 8:53 AM
>>> To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>>> Cc: Kunvar Thaman <f20170964 at pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in>
>>> Subject: Re: [ExI] significant figures
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>>> 1. Math guys don't rule the world because they're good at math, not people pleasing or policy issues or administration.
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>>> 2. Math guys to an extent are in charge (ex: finance - algo trading, etc). Tech influence is on almost everything, which itself is based on math.
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>>> 3. No single person has an influence on search or how the ads are shown. No CEO or even the top engineer at Google understands even a small part of even the search algorithm they use (they do far more than that) simply because it's already too complex to be understood by any single person. Algorithms rule the world in that sense, not people.
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>>> 4. If you think about it, even the current world hasn't been run by humans for a long time now. The major players in today's world are super powerful imaginary entities, bigger and stronger and more powerful than any human - countries like china and US.
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>>> 5. >In our world today, we realize it is a huge arms race for AI.  The first guy to create and control AI owns the world.
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>>> Check out the book LIFE 3.0 - it's on this topic and is brilliantly written.
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>>> &Kunvar
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>>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 10:12 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>> From: spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> 
>>> Subject: RE: [ExI] significant figures
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>>> > On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
>>> Subject: Re: [ExI] significant figures
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>>> >…So why aren't the math people in charge, Spike?   bill w
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>>> >…They are in charge BillW.  People who hold offices and titles fool themselves.  Our world today is ruled by science, technology, engineering and math.  We even have a name for it: STEM.  The students get it.  They know who really runs our world.  spike
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>>> To expand a bit on that thought: the decisions made by the guys who run the big search engine companies, the big social media hangouts and so on have so much influence on US elections one could argue they are in charge, but they only select political leaders.  In our world today, we realize it is a huge arms race for AI.  The first guy to create and control AI owns the world.
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