Call of Cthulhu Character Sheet Passport (PDF) 2019-10-05 | Reading time: 1 minute Seems like I forgot to upload the passport-like character sheet I did create a while ago for a Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game session. Well, here it is.[show the article]
Why not treat a learning AI like you would treat a dog? 2019-10-05 | Reading time: 2 minutes Who is responsible if you have an AI system (e.g., a robot) that learns after you buy it -- when it does something wrong. Perhaps treating such a system like you would treat a dog would be a way to deal with it.Image: «Supergirl»[show the article]
False Dichotomies (Presentation Slides, German) 2019-10-04 | Reading time: 1 minute Slides (in German) about false dichotomies (a rhetorical fallacy), expanded to cover false moral dichotomies (going back to Haidt and referring Boghossian's and Lindsay's book «How to have impossible conversations»).[show the article]
Weight Hacking Part IV – The Long View 2019-09-17 | Reading time: 1 minute Losing weight is simple, keeping it off is hard. Funny thing, with tracking, you'll see phases, trends and where you'd end up when.[show the article]
Looking at a Shadowrun Future — By political parties delegating censorship powers to corporations 2019-09-17 | Reading time: 1 minute We are weary of censorship by the state. But unfortunately, censorship got delegated to private companies. Unfortunately for us ... and the state.Image: Shadowrun Rulebook Cover Image.[show the article]
How about a few mirror neurons for AIs/neural networks? 2019-09-17 | Reading time: 1 minute AIs could be psychopaths — capable of understanding emotions but not being affected by it. Or they could be condemned to feel.Image: "Detroit -- Become Human" walkthrough.[show the article]
Wall Board (to get an overview of/plan projects and tasks) 2019-08-25 | Reading time: 2 minutes Currently trying out a wall board to get an overview of/to plan projects and task.[show the article]
Why Creativity is Incompatible with Collectivism/Socialism 2019-07-30 | Reading time: 16 minutes A short comment on creativity and collectivism/socialism with a few (longer) quotations.[show the article]
The Right Kind of Wrong. Or: Using bad practice just because it’s industry standard. 2019-07-30 | Reading time: 1 minute What do you do when something is "industry standard", but clearly inferior. Yet, you get into trouble when you do it better, because people don't recognize it as better?[show the article]
Should AI be explainable or should it just evaluate its predictions? 2019-07-28 | Reading time: 1 minute Just some thoughts on explainable AI.[show the article]
