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I’ll Just Leave This Here
By Raelifin | Published: April 26, 2012
Full rundown, including code, to come sometime in the future. (Probably.)
Posted in Code | Tagged AI, Cool Stuff, java, khanacademy, OCR, statistics | Leave a comment
First Flash Project
By Raelifin | Published: March 5, 2012
Once upon a time Adobe Flash was locked down. To make anything in flash you had to either buy or steal Adobe’s software to do anything with it. Nowadays though it seems that has changed. Using nothing but free software from FlashDevelop and GreenSock. I was able to build this chess software in about eight hours (knowing nothing about ActionScript at the start):
The source code is public domain (except for GreenSock’s stuff, which is Copyright, and you’ll have to download from them), and can be downloaded here: raelifin.com/files/ChessInFlash/ChessInFlashSource.zip
Posted in Code | Tagged actionscript, chess, flash, game, programming | 3 Comments
Is Consciousness Real? A Practical Answer.
By Raelifin | Published: January 31, 2012
This is a conversation I had back in October, but I haven’t posted anything recently, so I figured I’d copypasta it here for posterity.
A friend wrote:
Do you think consciousness is
(i) A real phenomenon
(ii) Unreal phenomenon ?Real here means that there exist (a) physical process/es (in the brain) that causally correspond to the “observed” phenomenon of consciousness. While unreal means that it is just a word people use to describe something that is not a part of reality, but rather a construct that was input to them since they were children ( for example, like fairies ) OR a word that stands for many processes and adds an imaginary glue, thus gaining new meaning ( like vis vitalis).
Note: I’m aware of problems with definitions of causality and reality, but let’s just take the usual practical ones.
This was my response:
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Posted in Thoughts | Tagged consciousness, definitions, ideas, language, qualia, reality, self | 1 Comment
Extremist Language
By Raelifin | Published: November 4, 2011
On the 27th, which was 8 days ago, now, Jon Stewart had Andrew Napolitano on The Daily Show. I am a self-described libertarian. I voted for Ron Paul in 2008 (yes, I know he wasn’t on the ballot). I also love The Daily Show and Mr. Stewart; I think he’s insightful, wise, and funny.
Here’s the first part of the interview I’m going to be commenting on, I encourage you to click-through to see the next two parts.
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Posted in Thoughts | Tagged democracy, extremism, Jon Stewart, libertarian, Napolitano, politics | 1 Comment
Re: Conversations on Strong AI
By Raelifin | Published: August 1, 2011
I am having a conversation with Rod Furlan over on his blog about the possibility of self-preservation being an emergent property of intelligent systems. Just, you know… in case you were curious what I’m up to.
Edit: I am commenting. I did not send the original email.
Posted in Thoughts | Tagged AI, emergence, self-preservation, singularity | 2 Comments