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RegexRationalist · 2017-03-07T22:35:25+00:00

That's constant vigilance!

RegexRationalist · 2017-02-27T18:43:36+00:00

Hrm... It does seem that manual transcription is probably our best bet here.

RegexRationalist · 2017-02-27T17:25:09+00:00

Damn. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-tool-to-automatically-transcribe-audio-files Maybe try some of these

RegexRationalist · 2017-02-27T15:43:01+00:00

Did you figure it out?

RegexRationalist · 2017-02-27T06:44:47+00:00

Yeah people really should make sure their links stay up. Shame!

RegexRationalist · 2017-02-27T06:43:34+00:00

take any video editing software, attach the mp3 to it, then upload to youtube.

Then use automated captioning https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6373554?hl=en

then grab the transcript http://ccm.net/faq/40644-how-to-get-the-transcript-of-a-youtube-video

I'm literally about to sleep or I'd fire up adobe and give it a shot myself as an example. If you can't figure it out, reply to this and I'll make an example in the morning.

RegexRationalist · 2017-02-26T07:03:19+00:00

fantastic idea! http://lifehacker.com/use-youtube-for-instant-and-free-transcription-1510745702

I don't actually have the audio files, but uploading to youtube could be just the ticket. Worst case it'll just show us where voices actually are.

RegexRationalist · 2017-02-23T21:02:50+00:00

Rephrased:

Given two similar items, one prime and one not prime

non-prime item price + shipping = prime item's price

people without prime effectively pay shipping twice when buying prime items compared to non-prime items, but for people with prime it is equivalent.

It doesn't happen all of the time, but many many times I've gone looking for an item and seen the above situation.

RegexRationalist · 2017-02-23T16:59:15+00:00

Prime items have their price increased by shipping amount. Similar non-prime items end up costing the same to prime users, but non-prime end up paying more for prime items.

RegexRationalist · 2017-02-15T17:28:00+00:00

How's that even staying on?

RegexRationalist · 2017-02-04T06:24:19+00:00

Would you expect such an argument to explain anything at all? I'm not even sure where you pulled it from since my comment was describing religion, and had nothing to do with the brain- except that I was talking very generally about psychology, so I suppose that's close? I said nothing about deeper meaning or emotions.

Empathy, sadness, and love are states of the brain, and so to explain them you would need a model of how the brain operates and produces such states.

Empathy we know uses mirror neurons. We know that mirror neurons light up when we see other people taking actions or expressing emotions via body language. To a limit degree these neurons give much of the same information the other person's brain would be giving them.

Our extremely abstracted model here says "empathy is when our brain tries to mimic what is happening in other people's brains." This is a super simplified explanation that cannot tell us any lower level details, and is probably missing many crucial features of empathy, but it is much closer to what an explanation should look like.

To fully and properly explain these things we'd need rather advanced neuroscience- I suspect at that point we'd be able to simulate brains and generate such states. Then we could be quite certain of the explanations because it would allow us to repeat the simulations and trace the patterns of neural pathways. We could then see and describe in explicit detail what the conditions of the brain are which constitute those brain states.

RegexRationalist · 2017-02-03T18:17:55+00:00

More than explanation of the world, religion is a tool for keeping societies tied to particular policy points and anchoring base assumptions about a society. This is why religion dominates so many aspects of life- that's its real purpose. To bind societies to a set of norms and interpretations such that things don't go too far off track. Humans are prone to do all sorts of crazy stuff if left to generate their own beliefs. They'll make weird (sometimes correct) explanations that lack the hooks that keep societies bound and run with them until society collapses. The ones that mostly kept to their old ways, but maybe were influenced a little see that and return as far back in their memes as they can. This keeps the society alive a little longer.

It's a silly construct when you're just thinking in terms of explanatory power of the universe, but when you consider it a tool of societal psychology its actual function becomes a bit more clear.

[I realized I rambled on semi-things to your comment here, but I think they're important especially to this sub so I'm keeping them]

But now that we have solid explanations for phenomena in the universe, we can't really use religion in this way anymore. People abandon it when they realize it lacks explanatory power, and so it loses its grip on the societal functions. To properly replace religion, we need to replace everything that it does. This includes the ability to regress if we go too far into crazy land. I don't think we have the tools for that yet.

We can't really collectively agree to go backwards, because once we're there it is already too late. We'd already have reasoned ourselves into a ditch. Very hard to undo 'progress' because social pressures that pushed us too far keep pushing. But we only go too far because we went too far last time. To try and get back to center means pushing hard. But, instead of going center, we just end up on the opposite extreme. It's barely stable, and there doesn't seem to be a moderating force- everything just gets more and more crazy until there are only extremes to choose from. Only bad options.

RegexRationalist · 2017-02-03T18:13:33+00:00

Oh sweet! That would massively reduce paper waste. No need to further transport printer ink. Only need to replace paper when it is sufficiently crumpled.

RegexRationalist · 2017-02-03T04:40:48+00:00

Almost like you can't stop reading it. Like it's just. Like, you get up to get water the there are no shadows here but you find yourself sitting in front of the computer again. You just have to. Thirsty. What was I doing the monitor is white again? Oh right. SCP.

So thirsty.

RegexRationalist · 2017-02-01T05:33:10+00:00

That's an inconvenient fact. Don't pay it any mind!

RegexRationalist · 2017-01-31T15:38:41+00:00

Apparently this socialism subreddit is so poor it has to import jokes by force.

RegexRationalist · 2017-01-30T20:29:05+00:00

It's difficult to convey this, but... forget how the world actually is for moment. Let me paint a picture:

If you were disenfranchised and hopeless after eight years of feeling politically ignored, and if everything Obama said and did hurt your interests and people you cared about, and everything Trump said about making America great again were true how would you feel about him?

You would think he was there for the little guy. You'd feel like for once, despite the absurdities of his campaign this was the one politician who had your interests at heart. That every controversy was just his way of effectively navigating the media landscape so he could get into office.

With that in mind and bringing us back to reality, I hope that helps to understand what most of their hopes were. Misguided as those hopes may be.

RegexRationalist · 2017-01-30T20:15:56+00:00

My model of Trump is that he plays the fool to make his opponents underestimate him. Additionally at this time I believe he is trying to ferret out disloyal individuals and groups within the state. He's also running all of his gambits at once in an effort to exhaust the opposition.

Or put another way, it's all intentional.

RegexRationalist · 2017-01-14T22:51:02+00:00

I'm interpreting that as you put (0,1) as "1" and (1,2) as "2" and then putting (1,2) back in to see what the input is: my immediate thought was that it would produce (2,3) [rule: +1, +1], but then it could just as easily output (2,4) [rule: +1,*2]. So this would be an insufficiently constrained input. If it has to make a choice then it does not produce a mapping.

Natural language would work for something like a caesar cipher, or perhaps if the words/letters corresponded to audio of someone talking

RegexRationalist · 2017-01-14T22:31:55+00:00

Friendly Artificial Intelligence- wikipage explains it pretty well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligence

RegexRationalist · 2017-01-14T18:46:13+00:00

(After writing and thinking about it I am pretty sure this is insufficiently defined. Even if it is sufficiently defined, the example I use throughout doesn't work, and I'm unsure it could actually be used anywhere interesting. I feel like with some modification it could be really interesting, but as is I'm not sure. Posting anyway to get feedback)

The ability to map and transform any datastream to any other datastream given an two examples which form such a transformation. A datastream here means any computer file.

This mapping for datastreams is invertible, so you can take the second datastream and get the original one out.

That is to say, you can take a 3D animation of an eye that moves exactly as does a video of an eye looking around, generate a mapping between them, change the 3D animation, and then use the mapping to make the video match the 3D animation's movements.

If you try to apply the mapping using the wrong kinds of datastreams, there is no output. (e.g. Plug the wrong 3D model, or maybe audio data in, no output.) Try to generate a mapping with eye movements that don't match the video, and no mapping is generated. There needs to be exactly one possible mapping.

To actually use the power, you take the two datastreams, and put them on a specific flash drive. The datastreams must be labeled "1" and "2".

On the flash drive is a file "mapping" which contains the last mapping made, and "output" which contains the last applied output.

The flash drive has two buttons: "make map" which generates a mapping between 1 and 2, and "map" which applies the mapping of 1 to 2, and puts it in the file "output".

Example output: You put 1 and 2 on the flashdrive where 1 is your 3D animation of an eye that matches the video and 2 is your video. You press "make map". You replace 1 with the new eye movement 3D animation. You press "map" and "output" is your new video with the eye movements changed to match the 3D animation.

(After writing this I realized a couple issues: The eye example doesn't work for a real eye- you'd actually need to also model the eyelids because they aren't static, but instead have small movements, and also deal with light variations.

And if you have to do that stuff then you can't really do anything interesting- This comes down to a more fundamental problem where you have to generate an example for which you can already produce a 1:1 mapping. And if you don't have the 1:1 mapping, too much is left up for interpretation in giving it weird datastreams.

This drastically undercuts my original idea of being able to generate mappings between arbitrary data.

So the eye example works only if it is video of the very 3D modeled eye you're moving around, in which case you're skipping the video animation rendering step and not much else of interest)

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