Nature or Nurture: Socialization, Social Pressure, Reinforcement Learning, Reward Systems: Current Virtual Self - No Intrinsic Integral Self, but an Integral of Infinitesimal Local Selfs - Irrational Intentional Actions Are Impossible- Akrasia is Confused - Hypothesis about Socialization and Eye-Contact as an Oxytocin Source

Аn article, inspired as an answer to a post by Russell Wallace at the AGIRI's AGI List, "Killer Application" Need to put explicit links to some of the references, if anyone cares: ask, and I'll update it, otherwise I'll add them later. (C)  Todor "Tosh"Arnaudov , 29/11/2012***   Personal AGI Coaches I agree that one of the early applications of thinking machines will be managing, advising, coaching, suggesting and assisting in all kinds of human activities ("intelligence/mind augmentation"), I myself am working...

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News: TILT - Efficient Rectification (Texture-Pixel-Based 3D-Like Perspective and other) by Microsoft Research - and the SIGI-AGI Prototype and Research Accelerator News

I've discussed about the must-be simplicity of 3D-scene-and-light reconstruction, back in the 1/1/2012 article about Optical Illusions, and later on the AGI-List*, and I see it very soon coming en mass. "TILT" by Microsoft is yet another demonstration of this coming... :X The RGB-D sensors (such as Kinect and ASUS Xtion) that are getting cheap and popular are also a jump to that direction, they make 3D reconstruction trivial. In the last two months I've been also directing my mind into visual-vision-images R&D for...

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Nietzsche is a XIX-century Transhumanist... - Философът Фридрих Ницше е трансхуманист от 19-ти век...

Have you thought about that? :) The concept of Superman (Übermensch), one to whom current humans are like the apes to humans. Check his work for yourself, right from the beginning: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm I won't discuss the work as a whole, the "new moral", and Nazi's abuse of the term "Superman". I care for Nietzsche's "Superman" from a transhumanist point of view: a superman in cognitive and functional sense. The "dead God" and the creation of a new god...

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