<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 7, 2023, 2:06 PM efc--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
> A pleasure to meet you Daniel. It's funny we have a rather similar background (working on large scale storage systems), and I would<br>
> also classify myself as some mixture of technologist and philosopher.<br>
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Interesting! I wonder if we ever met or walked past each other at any of <br>
the big storage vendors conventions? What storage systems did you work <br>
with?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It's quite possible. I attended and presented at the Storage Network Industry Association's "Sorage Developer Conference" a number of years as well as at the Usenix "File and Storage Technology" conference a couple of years. I helped develop an erasure code based dispersed storage at a company called Cleversafe which later became IBM Cloud Object Storage.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> I have a few open source projects that might interest you. In particular there's one that straddles the two realms of technology and<br>
> philosophy. It's an experiment in artificial life and simulated evolution of neural networks. I think it raises many philosophical<br>
> questions, such as whether these entities are consciousness, or do they feel pleasure or pain, and if they aren't consciousness, when<br>
> similar life is, what's missing?<br>
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> <a href="https://github.com/jasonkresch/bots" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/jasonkresch/bots</a><br>
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Thank you, but sadly my programming abilities stop with advanced <br>
scripting, so from a philosophical point of view I like it, but I'm afraid <br>
I cannot contribute a lot to the technical side.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">No worries. It's fun to play with in any case. It only needs a system with the Java Development Kit installed for it to compile and run. (an install script is included as well ;-) )</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> If you are seeking other similar places I can second the recommendation for the everything-list, especially it's earlier history<br>
> (it's unfortunately fallen off a bit more recently). There's also the website lesswrong on which people write posts and others<br>
> 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.<br>
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Lesswrong I know. I'm curious given the reviews of the Eliezer guy on this <br>
list, what the opinion of this project is? I also had a look at his 1000+ <br>
page book, and just the size of it and the introduction kind of put me <br>
off.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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