<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 5:47 AM, Anders <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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On 2016-07-05 19:54, William Flynn Wallace wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Anders
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<p>Met the author, decided to buy when it came out. We
had a very nice conversation about stochastic gradient
descent in everyday life decisions.</p>
<p>Have the book in my office now.</p>
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<div>UhOh,
that means that I won't be able to understand a word of
it! Rats!</div>
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Sorry, but I got annoyed by that (despite it being meant in jest, so
take this mildly!). It both insults the author by suggesting the
book would fail at explaining its topic, and involves a bit of
coquetry of ignorance ("Haha, I cannot possibly understand that!").<br>
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At least on this list we should always add a "...yet." to any claim
of ignorance or infeasibility. I don't know quantum field theory...
yet. I am not immortal... yet. We do not live in space... yet.<br>
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By the way, the book is very readable and thoughtful. <br><span class=""><pre cols="72">Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University</pre>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">I am very sorry that you took it that way. I was, as you certainly know, making a jest of it. I am the least techie person on this list, as you also know, and was making fun of myself!</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"> I did read the Amazon reviews which said that it was readable for nontechnical people, or otherwise I would not have bought it. I will give my review when I have read it.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">I do not think that I have anything to apologize for, but again am sorry that you took it that way.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill wallace</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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