Author: divia

  • what’s on my mind:

    If, in a dream in which you are fleeing from harm, you realize you are dreaming, you will still tend to continue escaping, even though you should now know that there is nothing to flee from. -Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen Laberge

  • AI-Box experiment results

    He let me out!  Yay!  I’ll write more about this later, but for now I have to go to work.  

  • AI-Box experiment

    I’ve been thinking about AI boxing for a while, and just for fun I’ve decided to try playing the AI against my friend Neil.  We’re starting around now, and I’ll post the results when we’re done.  (Just to note, I have pretty low confidence this will work, but I think it’s going to be fun…

  • On King Haggard, the Red Bull, and paperclip maximizers

    “I like to watch them. They fill me with joy.” The childish voice was all but singing. “I am sure it is joy. The first time I felt it, I thought I was going to die. There were two of them in the early morning shadows. One was drinking from a stream, and the other…

  • More about how I’ve been memorizing quotations

    As I already mentioned, I’ve been working on memorizing some of my favorite quotations. One of the main motivations for this project was to play around with spaced repetition software. I’d heard of SuperMemo a while ago, probably from the Wired article, and I was definitely intrigued, really glad that Peter Wozniak had done all…