Given that the universe is infinite and that God is also infinite, would you like a crumpet? a beautiful woman leading an ugly donkey asks you to kiss her ass...... would you do it? Does Spiderman have a sticky penis? If you are a female between 18 - 25 years of age who is looking for love should you email legendlength@hotmail.com? Is vicadin a perfume? Do women have sex with cats? Is Kiro5hin currently up? Can tree stumps be used as baby carriges? Are children are much like firetrucks, only bigger? Was the film Jurassic Park about big scary butterflies?
For five years now, more than 50,000 people have been working to make a map of common sense. The project is known as Mindpixel. It was launched on July 6, 2000. On August 24, 2000 Chris McKinstry (me) and Mindpixel were profiled by Robert X. Cringely. In September of 2000 Both Time and Wired magazines carried news of the merger of Mindpixel with the MIT Media Labs Open Mind Common Sense Project.
Now, what can you do with this data? Well, once it is in the google index - tomorrow, I suspect. Then the 3.5mb page of 80k validated pieces of knowledge will be able to do for consensus internal knowledge what wikipedia does for consensus external knowledge. I hope that eventually, google will trust Mindpixel as it does Wikipedia. Then commercial applications of semantic spectrum based technology can proceed, and the 50,000 owners of the
The brain does not naturally spell. It has to be forced to remember pedantic rules so that the people who have mastered rote learning can appear smarter than they actually are. The brain works phonetically as should spelling. Grammar on the other hand, has a much stronger claim to being an index to rational thought.
I love X, but my ibook is waiting for its forth logicboard. It has been out of service for 5 months of its three year life. Completely unacceptable. Another hardware vendor would put some pressure on Apple to smarten up.
Oh, blog burnout, that is simply stupid. Big stupid.
What is really happening is that people are learning to write on the most massive scale in history. Those that write crud will be lost in the bowels of search results while the cream floats to the top. There will just be a lot more of it.
Scientists are already presaging their publications in their blogs because the traditional publishing cycle is so long - I know.
I have a text book chapter that was accepted into 2002 for a major scienctific publisher and the book is still being edited, so I have moved the ideas in my blog recently where people can find them, now. The paper that the chapter was based on was written in 1995 and accepted in 1995 but took until the summer of 1997 to see print.
Yesterday, a raw blog entry that was the synthesis of a decade of thinking made it through the online peer review of kuro5hin. It took 36 hours.
Blogs are fast and viral and have changed the world and will keep changing it.
Anyone see the movie Demon Seed?...where robot that looks like a much larger version of this little Cornell self-replicating creature, rapes the wife of its creator and creates a baby hybrid?
As I posted elsewhere, Penrose needs to be taken VERY seriously. This is plain in Andrew Hodges' [Turing's biographer] extremely interesting lecture on Turing's struggles with the same problems that Penrose points out in ENM.
Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing's biographer, has a really good lecture he's shopping around the p[lanet about how Turing was deeply worried about exactly the same things that Penrose worries about [and those of us interested in consciousness and artificial intelligence, should also be worried about]...let's see if I can find it...
There are some very smart people like Daniel Dennett who dismiss Penrose...This is a mistake. Pay attention to Penrose. He knows more about how everything in reality works than I think anyone alive today.
One of my best friends just bought a tiny little house in downtown Toronto for $377,000. I left Toronto last November and moved to Santiago, Chile and live downtwon where my rent is $260/month, for quite a nice, though small place, in an excellent area.
So, if I spend $100K on the Orion DS-96, that leaves me more than enough for a 250 channel geodesic EEG system which would allow me to compute self-organizing maps of the human mind based on flashing the 1.6 million mindpixels I have collected over the past five years to various volunteers [english teachers], AND still have 56.73 years worth of rent left!
Too bad no bank will loan me $377,000 for a computer and an EEG system and the time to play with it...
I agree. I live in gmail. It goes where I go. Soon, it will handle spreadsheets and presentations and then someone will make a distro that has mysql/apache/php and boots to firefox and microsoft will shrink down to Borland size and sell only development tools no one sane will use.
I like Alice a great deal. Clearly she's the best chatbot mankind has ever made...
At one time, Wallace and I were talking about giving Alice a pile of mindpixels so she would preform better...I can't remember what happened with that conversation or why we didn't do anything...clearly Alice would preform better with a nice injection of validated human common sense...
Very deep. Do you know any other system that has this kind of knowledge of the statistics of not just what makes sense, but what is also utter nonsense? Negative information is an important constraint.
My assertion is that the human mind is a seven-dimensional hypersphere where every possible configuration of short term memory is a point on its surface...you remember George A. Miller's famous paper, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two"?...well, it looks like the reason for the magical number is that your thalmocortical loop is seven layered[thalamus + six neocortical layers]...and what is so special about the number seven? Well, a hypersphere has maximum surface area at seven dimensions!
So, your mind is a seven dimensional hypersphere, and your thoughts are trajectories on the surface of that hypersphere. Mindpixels are random samples of points all over the surface of your mind. They were never gluded together in the first place. And the point of the project is to statistically model the fractal attractor on the surface of an average person's mind.
And thinking of the mind as a sevensphere leads to an interesting perdiction...eight thalmocortical layers would be unfit...so, there should be a record in the human past of a homanid with a brain just slightly bigger than ours, which was optimised by evolution for maximum short term memory pattern seperation [maximum hypersurface] by giving us seven thalmocortical layers...and guess what, Neanderthal's had brains just slightly bigger than ours...which means they whould have had a less rich internal representation of the world than we do at a higher resource cost and hence doomed to extinction.
1.00 Fish must remain in water to continue living. 0.68 truth is a relative concept 0.89 we all need laws 0.94 is shakespeare dead? 0.91 is intelligence relative ? 0.97 Doors often have handles or knobs. 1.00 A comet and an asteroid are both moving celestial objects. 0.96 Is Russian a language? 0.00 are the northern lights viewable from all locations ? 0.86 Being wealthy is generally desirable. 0.79 Democracy is superior to any other form of government 0.90 aRE TREES GREEN 1.00 Is eating important? 0.02 Is sex a strictly human endeavour? 0.14 Snails are insects. 1.00 velvet is a type of cloth 0.37 are you lonely ? 0.81 If GAC makes a mistake, will it learn quickly? 0.86 a cat is a mammal 0.85 Memorex makes recording media 0.06 most people enjoy frustrating tasks 0.04 Lima beans are a mineral. 0.07 Star Wars is based upon a true story 0.92 is it okay for someone to believe something different? 0.97 do you breath air ? 0.59 Some people are more worthy dead than alive. 1.00 sunlight on your face is in general a pleasant feeling 0.93 DOA stands for "Dead On Arrival" 0.00 Could a housecat bite my arm off? 0.42 Is the herb Astragalus good for your immune system? 0.00 worms have legs 0.33 Is it necessary to have a nationality? 0.93 Getting forced off the internet sucks!!! 0.90 Bolivia is a country located in South America. 0.92 Massive objects pull other objects toward their center. The pulling force is gravity. 1.00 xx chromosomes produce a girl 0.13 Do all people in the world speak a different language 0.78 Human common sense is a combination of experience, frugality of effort, and simplicity of thought. 1.00 The use of tobacco products is thought to cause more than 400,000 deaths each year. 0.90 Is a low-fat diet is healthier than a high-fat diet? 0.00 you should kill all strangers 1.00 Electrical resistance can be measuter in ohms 0.73 Esperanto, an artifical language, can never be really valuable because it has no cultural roots. 1.00 Swimming is good for you. 0.57 the end justifies the means 0.13 Is Martha Stewart a hottie? 1.00 1 mile is about 1.6 kilometer 0.76 The US elections are of little interest to 5,000,000,000 people. 0.00 November is the first month in the normal calendar. 0.77 is a music cd better than a olt time record? 1.00 Music can help calm your emotions 0.80 a didlo is a sex toy 1.00 Running is good exercise. 0.00 No building in the world is made of wood 0.06 Is sauerkraut made from peas? 0.11 DID MICKEY MOUSE SHOOT JR 1.00 is keyboard usual part of computer? 0.96 Tokyo is the capital of Japan. 0.93 In general men run faster than women. 1.00 is russia near china
Yes, Mindpixel [singluar] is poorly funded [I know because every cent spent to date has come from my pocket]...but the directon is correct... Move everything that isn't in computers, into computers. Just look at what GAC knows about reality [visit the mindpixel site and you can see a random snapshot of some validated common sense]... the project has nearly 2 million mindpixels now...I have a copy on my ibook and I can do some profound search related things because of all the deep semantics I have that google can't touch, at least until they invest in mindpixel...
I'm an adult now...my time is expensive...
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I bought my ibook G3 on September 17, 2002 when I was working at the VLT...my reasoning was simple, with BSD, I could compile and run all my science software as well as run Apache and MySQL for web application development on hardware that was predictible...I was too old to fiddle with all the configuration crap everyone else at the VLT was going through just to get linux up on their Dell naotebooks.
So, I can say without a doubt, the software environment I am working with on my ibook is the best I have ever seen and I won't go back to anything else...BUT!!!
It hurts to pioneer!
So far my ibook has been through 2 logic boards, and on "good" friday, the third one died. Very annoying Mr. Jobs. And, as a frontline geek, I am a little distressed to see that the recall for the flawed itital batch of ibooks expired on March 18th!
I will take it in anyway and scream until it is fixed.
I don't work at the VLT any more, but I am told that ibook G4's and powerbooks now outnumber the Dell machines...scientists are switching too.
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Given that the universe is infinite and that God is also infinite, would you like a crumpet? ...... would you do it?
a beautiful woman leading an ugly donkey asks you to kiss her ass
Does Spiderman have a sticky penis?
If you are a female between 18 - 25 years of age who is looking for love should you email legendlength@hotmail.com?
Is vicadin a perfume?
Do women have sex with cats?
Is Kiro5hin currently up?
Can tree stumps be used as baby carriges?
Are children are much like firetrucks, only bigger?
Was the film Jurassic Park about big scary butterflies?
yes. my bad.
...50,000 owners of the data can start making some money...
Now, what can you do with this data? Well, once it is in the google index - tomorrow, I suspect. Then the 3.5mb page of 80k validated pieces of knowledge will be able to do for consensus internal knowledge what wikipedia does for consensus external knowledge. I hope that eventually, google will trust Mindpixel as it does Wikipedia. Then commercial applications of semantic spectrum based technology can proceed, and the 50,000 owners of the
The brain does not naturally spell. It has to be forced to remember pedantic rules so that the people who have mastered rote learning can appear smarter than they actually are. The brain works phonetically as should spelling. Grammar on the other hand, has a much stronger claim to being an index to rational thought.
Evolve or disappear.
I love X, but my ibook is waiting for its forth logicboard. It has been out of service for 5 months of its three year life. Completely unacceptable. Another hardware vendor would put some pressure on Apple to smarten up.
Oh, blog burnout, that is simply stupid. Big stupid.
What is really happening is that people are learning to write on the most massive scale in history. Those that write crud will be lost in the bowels of search results while the cream floats to the top. There will just be a lot more of it.
Scientists are already presaging their publications in their blogs because the traditional publishing cycle is so long - I know.
I have a text book chapter that was accepted into 2002 for a major scienctific publisher and the book is still being edited, so I have moved the ideas in my blog recently where people can find them, now. The paper that the chapter was based on was written in 1995 and accepted in 1995 but took until the summer of 1997 to see print.
Yesterday, a raw blog entry that was the synthesis of a decade of thinking made it through the online peer review of kuro5hin. It took 36 hours.
Blogs are fast and viral and have changed the world and will keep changing it.
Blog burnout? Never.
Lend me an ASIMO so I can stuff it with Mindpixels.
Very spooky. Someone should email the pointer of the video clip to Julie Christie!
Anyone see the movie Demon Seed?...where robot that looks like a much larger version of this little Cornell self-replicating creature, rapes the wife of its creator and creates a baby hybrid?
As I posted elsewhere, Penrose needs to be taken VERY seriously. This is plain in Andrew Hodges' [Turing's biographer] extremely interesting lecture on Turing's struggles with the same problems that Penrose points out in ENM.
Turing and Penrose.
Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing's biographer, has a really good lecture he's shopping around the p[lanet about how Turing was deeply worried about exactly the same things that Penrose worries about [and those of us interested in consciousness and artificial intelligence, should also be worried about]...let's see if I can find it...
Yes, here it is: Turing and Penrose.
There are some very smart people like Daniel Dennett who dismiss Penrose...This is a mistake. Pay attention to Penrose. He knows more about how everything in reality works than I think anyone alive today.
One of my best friends just bought a tiny little house in downtown Toronto for $377,000. I left Toronto last November and moved to Santiago, Chile and live downtwon where my rent is $260/month, for quite a nice, though small place, in an excellent area.
So, if I spend $100K on the Orion DS-96, that leaves me more than enough for a 250 channel geodesic EEG system which would allow me to compute self-organizing maps of the human mind based on flashing the 1.6 million mindpixels I have collected over the past five years to various volunteers [english teachers], AND still have 56.73 years worth of rent left!
Too bad no bank will loan me $377,000 for a computer and an EEG system and the time to play with it...
I agree. I live in gmail. It goes where I go. Soon, it will handle spreadsheets and presentations and then someone will make a distro that has mysql/apache/php and boots to firefox and microsoft will shrink down to Borland size and sell only development tools no one sane will use.
I like Alice a great deal. Clearly she's the best chatbot mankind has ever made...
At one time, Wallace and I were talking about giving Alice a pile of mindpixels so she would preform better...I can't remember what happened with that conversation or why we didn't do anything...clearly Alice would preform better with a nice injection of validated human common sense...
Yes, data like this is annoying and skews the statistics...I'm working to filter users who whork like this...
Very deep. Do you know any other system that has this kind of knowledge of the statistics of not just what makes sense, but what is also utter nonsense? Negative information is an important constraint.
The answer is a sevensphere...
My assertion is that the human mind is a seven-dimensional hypersphere where every possible configuration of short term memory is a point on its surface...you remember George A. Miller's famous paper, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two"?...well, it looks like the reason for the magical number is that your thalmocortical loop is seven layered[thalamus + six neocortical layers]...and what is so special about the number seven? Well, a hypersphere has maximum surface area at seven dimensions!
So, your mind is a seven dimensional hypersphere, and your thoughts are trajectories on the surface of that hypersphere. Mindpixels are random samples of points all over the surface of your mind. They were never gluded together in the first place. And the point of the project is to statistically model the fractal attractor on the surface of an average person's mind.
And thinking of the mind as a sevensphere leads to an interesting perdiction...eight thalmocortical layers would be unfit...so, there should be a record in the human past of a homanid with a brain just slightly bigger than ours, which was optimised by evolution for maximum short term memory pattern seperation [maximum hypersurface] by giving us seven thalmocortical layers...and guess what, Neanderthal's had brains just slightly bigger than ours...which means they whould have had a less rich internal representation of the world than we do at a higher resource cost and hence doomed to extinction.
hard times are easy to get...please give me some mindpixels instead!!
I didn't type it...just cut and paste...
The number is the measured probability of truth:
1.00 Fish must remain in water to continue living.
0.68 truth is a relative concept
0.89 we all need laws
0.94 is shakespeare dead?
0.91 is intelligence relative ?
0.97 Doors often have handles or knobs.
1.00 A comet and an asteroid are both moving celestial objects.
0.96 Is Russian a language?
0.00 are the northern lights viewable from all locations ?
0.86 Being wealthy is generally desirable.
0.79 Democracy is superior to any other form of government
0.90 aRE TREES GREEN
1.00 Is eating important?
0.02 Is sex a strictly human endeavour?
0.14 Snails are insects.
1.00 velvet is a type of cloth
0.37 are you lonely ?
0.81 If GAC makes a mistake, will it learn quickly?
0.86 a cat is a mammal
0.85 Memorex makes recording media
0.06 most people enjoy frustrating tasks
0.04 Lima beans are a mineral.
0.07 Star Wars is based upon a true story
0.92 is it okay for someone to believe something different?
0.97 do you breath air ?
0.59 Some people are more worthy dead than alive.
1.00 sunlight on your face is in general a pleasant feeling
0.93 DOA stands for "Dead On Arrival"
0.00 Could a housecat bite my arm off?
0.42 Is the herb Astragalus good for your immune system?
0.00 worms have legs
0.33 Is it necessary to have a nationality?
0.93 Getting forced off the internet sucks!!!
0.90 Bolivia is a country located in South America.
0.92 Massive objects pull other objects toward their center. The pulling force is gravity.
1.00 xx chromosomes produce a girl
0.13 Do all people in the world speak a different language
0.78 Human common sense is a combination of experience, frugality of effort, and simplicity of thought.
1.00 The use of tobacco products is thought to cause more than 400,000 deaths each year.
0.90 Is a low-fat diet is healthier than a high-fat diet?
0.00 you should kill all strangers
1.00 Electrical resistance can be measuter in ohms
0.73 Esperanto, an artifical language, can never be really valuable because it has no cultural roots.
1.00 Swimming is good for you.
0.57 the end justifies the means
0.13 Is Martha Stewart a hottie?
1.00 1 mile is about 1.6 kilometer
0.76 The US elections are of little interest to 5,000,000,000 people.
0.00 November is the first month in the normal calendar.
0.77 is a music cd better than a olt time record?
1.00 Music can help calm your emotions
0.80 a didlo is a sex toy
1.00 Running is good exercise.
0.00 No building in the world is made of wood
0.06 Is sauerkraut made from peas?
0.11 DID MICKEY MOUSE SHOOT JR
1.00 is keyboard usual part of computer?
0.96 Tokyo is the capital of Japan.
0.93 In general men run faster than women.
1.00 is russia near china
Yes, Mindpixel [singluar] is poorly funded [I know because every cent spent to date has come from my pocket]...but the directon is correct... Move everything that isn't in computers, into computers. Just look at what GAC knows about reality [visit the mindpixel site and you can see a random snapshot of some validated common sense]... the project has nearly 2 million mindpixels now...I have a copy on my ibook and I can do some profound search related things because of all the deep semantics I have that google can't touch, at least until they invest in mindpixel ...
I bought my ibook G3 on September 17, 2002 when I was working at the VLT...my reasoning was simple, with BSD, I could compile and run all my science software as well as run Apache and MySQL for web application development on hardware that was predictible...I was too old to fiddle with all the configuration crap everyone else at the VLT was going through just to get linux up on their Dell naotebooks.
So, I can say without a doubt, the software environment I am working with on my ibook is the best I have ever seen and I won't go back to anything else...BUT!!!
It hurts to pioneer!
So far my ibook has been through 2 logic boards, and on "good" friday, the third one died. Very annoying Mr. Jobs. And, as a frontline geek, I am a little distressed to see that the recall for the flawed itital batch of ibooks expired on March 18th!
I will take it in anyway and scream until it is fixed.
I don't work at the VLT any more, but I am told that ibook G4's and powerbooks now outnumber the Dell machines...scientists are switching too.