Hi all, I'm leaving from Palo Alto this coming Friday, July 29th in a rented car that will seat 4 comfortably. I am one so I need 2 other riders. If you are ...
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jeroenlapre
Jul 26, 2005 5:41 am
Hi, my name is Jeroen Lapre'. I am a digital artist in the visual effects industry, and am producing and directing an independent film short based on the short...
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Kennita Watson
kennita0728
Jul 26, 2005 7:46 pm
Cool! ... There's a photo at the article URL: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000137047655/ I heard about this in an email that identified the company...
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Wayne Radinsky
spodware
Jul 27, 2005 10:37 pm
... When you say that AI does not necessarily work like a human, in fact, almost certainly will not, that just makes me think, all the more, that all these...
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
eliezer_2001
Jul 28, 2005 12:39 am
... It wouldn't. I would say: I don't want some shmuck of a mortal human rooting around in my brain, trying to upgrade it. I wasn't designed for radical...
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DJ Cline
djcline01@...
Jul 28, 2005 10:37 pm
DJ Cline Commentary 07-31-05 Copyright 2005 All rights reserved. Commentary The remains of a wooly mammoth were discovered on the banks of the Guadalupe River...
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markfinnern
Aug 1, 2005 2:09 am
Hi Futurists, Weblog post: http://www.futuresalon.org/2005/07/forward_thinker.html Jerry Michalski is one of my favorite forward thinkers and experimenter. We...
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
eliezer_2001
Aug 1, 2005 2:53 am
... The general principles of intelligence, when condensed and reified, look quite different from the evolutionary hack that implements those principles on a ...
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Kennita Watson
kennita0728
Aug 3, 2005 9:58 am
All you folks who "wouldn't join any club that would have you as a member", or who don't want to know, or who disdain joining "elistist groups", can tune out...
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Kennita Watson
kennita0728
Aug 3, 2005 10:29 am
I think this is a great idea, and I'm even putting some of my own chips on the table: ... Cheers, Kennita...
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Wayne Radinsky
spodware
Aug 4, 2005 6:39 pm
Look at the world's most successful people. Bill Gates has a high IQ. George Bush has a low IQ (probably) as measured by standard IQ tests. Yet both are...
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Kennita Watson
kennita0728
Aug 5, 2005 10:23 pm
... All this is saying to me is that you don't want to join, and feel it necessary to explain why. ... Not possible. That you say "my bank account" indicates...
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Eric Krock
ekrock
Aug 6, 2005 2:06 am
I agree with Wayne that the importance of IQ is overstated and that soft skills not measured by IQ tests are equally or more important in determining success....
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Troy Gardner
TheGreyman
Aug 6, 2005 6:31 pm
I agree whole heartedly that IQ is rather unimportant for the majority of success metrics. EQ (Emotional), SocialQ being far far more important. EQ being ...
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markfinnern
Aug 7, 2005 3:40 pm
Hi Futurists, Weblog posts with links: http://www.futuresalon.org/2005/08/biotechnology_m.html The Long Now Foundation has a Biotechnology Milestones calendar...
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Nanyun Zhang
nanyun_zhang
Aug 7, 2005 7:33 pm
My opinions about the importance of IQ: 1) People need many kinds of resources in order to succeed. IQ is just one of them. If you have enough other...
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Jason McClain
spiritliberated
Aug 8, 2005 6:26 am
Ken Wilber ["Sex, Ecology, Spirituality_, "_Marriage of Sense and Soul_", "_Integral Psychology_", etc.] one of the greatest integral thinkers of our time, and...
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Nanyun Zhang
nanyun_zhang
Aug 8, 2005 2:25 pm
Good point. But, has it been proven scientifically that it is an one-way-street relationship between IQ and other lines of development of human being?...
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Michael Korns
mkorns
Aug 8, 2005 5:00 pm
... Here is a very interesting article concerning the Media's role in pushing the concept that EQ is an important predictor of future success: ...
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Troy Gardner
TheGreyman
Aug 8, 2005 6:36 pm
I read Goldman's work. I find it compelling, though the interellationship of IQ and EQ seem synergistic. Allow me to explore a tangent for a moment: One of the...
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Chris Duffield
chrisduffield
Aug 9, 2005 12:20 am
Nice analysis, Troy, and personally relevant to me. I'm one of those people who has plenty of IQ, but really needs a lot more EQ and SQ, which has been...
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J. Andrew Rogers
jr89436
Aug 10, 2005 6:20 am
... IQ is more of an enabler that bounds the possibility space; no amount of hard work is a substitute for being fundamentally too stupid to solve a given...
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Jan
jan77hauser
Aug 10, 2005 6:51 am
Hello JAR... Right on!!! Below is something that came my way recently... Many thanks to the mensAH! folk's that have the ambition to be funny! Read on and...
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J. Andrew Rogers
jr89436
Aug 10, 2005 7:16 am
... If one cannot predict intelligence from the mathematics, one does not understand intelligence. Even if we could copy the brain perfectly, without ...
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Jan
jan77hauser
Aug 10, 2005 7:18 am
Hi their! This is the normally quiet and very reserved Jan Hauser ;-) I love the reference to "wouldn't join any club that would have you as a member". On the...
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Troy Gardner
TheGreyman
Aug 10, 2005 3:57 pm
... Being an extropian , futurist, atheist, NT or NF or any other group less than 3% of the general population with thoughts and an agenda and facilitated by...
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Andrew Pimlott
andrew@...
Aug 10, 2005 5:34 pm
... That is, you've already suffered the "handover";. ... Swiped from Gary Larson. Andrew...
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Mira Calyx
marie_kacmarek
Aug 10, 2005 8:40 pm
Interesting conversation here ... and can't help but chime in here briefly. I doubt there are more than a small handful of folks who don't fall in the 2.2%...
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Jason McClain
spiritliberated
Aug 10, 2005 8:41 pm
... This is very true. The more advanced one gets in any line of development the more opportunities there are for something to go terribly awry as the organism...
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Troy Gardner
TheGreyman
Aug 10, 2005 10:12 pm
... This wasn't quite clear to me what you meant. But I'll venture an answer on what I think (er feel?) you mean. Depends on the balance and the depth of the ...
