Philip @p@qoto.org

1. Images of cats being transformed from one to another by neural networks. http://dump.bitcheese.net/files/cucycus/output2.webm
2. Images of humans being transformed. http://dump.bitcheese.net/files/zefonac/output_humans.webm
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUVbqQ3STFA
#deeplearning

I have finally finished reading Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman, Daniel (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow). The book is about cognitive biases, i.e. systematic patterns of how humans behaviour deviates from optimal, fast intuitive vs slow analytical mind, and choices. The author's got a Nobel prize in economics and is a smart and trustworthy (science-wise) person overall.

I am not sure if knowledge from the book is useful enough to me. It was quite boring to read. Also a few early chapters talk about psychological effects which later turned out to be weaker or to work in a different way than it was thought. To be precise, I am talking about priming and ego depletion.

It is also popular among #lesswrong crowd.

#rationality

@cedricchin I agree that #lesswrong community care about instrumental rationality less than they should. However I want to point out that for me my old goals / utility function seem stupid now, and epistemic rationality sometimes makes people have less stupid goals / utility function.

Also I think EY mentioned somewhere that he made lesswrong for his AI alignment agenda, and that epistemic rationality is very important for that.

How to get into modern classical #music: http://lukemuehlhauser.com/how-to-fall-in-love-with-modern-classical-music-4/

The guide contains the more approachable composers, modern classical music in film OSTs, and other stuff.

@absolutus Что такое сет QOTO? Мой аккаунт и так на qoto.org

@andi1984 Hi Andi. Do I assume correctly that your dimensions.ai focuses only on English-speaking countries, or maybe even only USA?

#introductions

Hello everyone, I am Philip, I am from Moscow, Russia. I am an MSc Data Science student.

Here's a list of my interests: #rationality #math #programming #AIAlignment #EffectiveAltruism #FOSS

Here is my goodreads profile where you can see what I have read and am reading https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/20103683-screw-driver

Smaller and possibly temporary interests:
#probability
#lesswrong
#tabletennis
#deeplearning
#science
#music
#anki
#cycling
#moscow
#psychology
#videogames
#python
#hardscifi