[ExI] More mailing lists of this calibre?

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> Lesswrong I know. I'm curious given the reviews of the Eliezer guy on this list, what the opinion of this project is? I also had a look at his 1000+ page book, and just the size of it and the introduction kind of put me off.

I highly recommend Eliezer’s book. It is absolutely brilliant once one gets deep into it. He does tend to be very verbose but if you can get past that it is a true treasure.

I am interested in hearing about your transition from an employee to a business owner and your travels. I am looking to get into business myself and have always wondered what it is like to travel and live in different countries. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

> On Apr 7, 2023, at 1:35 PM, efc--- via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> 
>> A pleasure to meet you Daniel. It's funny we have a rather similar background (working on large scale storage systems), and I would
>> also classify myself as some mixture of technologist and philosopher.
>> 
> 
> Interesting! I wonder if we ever met or walked past each other at any of the big storage vendors conventions? What storage systems did you work with?
> 
>> I have a few open source projects that might interest you. In particular there's one that straddles the two realms of technology and
>> philosophy. It's an experiment in artificial life and simulated evolution of neural networks. I think it raises many philosophical
>> questions, such as whether these entities are consciousness, or do they feel pleasure or pain, and if they aren't consciousness, when
>> similar life is, what's missing?
>> https://github.com/jasonkresch/bots
>> 
> 
> Thank you, but sadly my programming abilities stop with advanced scripting, so from a philosophical point of view I like it, but I'm afraid I cannot contribute a lot to the technical side.
> 
>> If you are seeking other similar places I can second the recommendation for the everything-list, especially it's earlier history
>> (it's unfortunately fallen off a bit more recently). There's also the website lesswrong on which people write posts and others
>> critique their argument/thesis in the comments. I don't know how active it still is but there's a lot of good material on it.
>> 
> 
> Lesswrong I know. I'm curious given the reviews of the Eliezer guy on this list, what the opinion of this project is? I also had a look at his 1000+ page book, and just the size of it and the introduction kind of put me off.
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel
> 
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