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A reported is invited for an exclusive story in a tech mogul’s closed-lab.
Quite good, though rather obvious.
- 0:30 — Hexadecimal in that scrolling text. A classic columnar format, likely for debugging but scrolling fast for entertainment purposes.
- 2:30 — Chess
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4:00 —
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4:45 —
- 5:15 — Castle and Castle Computing are fictional. This is likely the classic reference to Apple Inc..
- 5:45 — Drinking the Kool-Aid
- 6:00 — Terabytes, Petabytes
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6:30 —
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7:15 —
- Robotics
- Graduate school
- Subsumption(?) architecture
- Dissertation = Thesis
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9:30 —
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9:45 — Rain Man – (1988 movie)
- 15:00 — For some time now, I’ve been wondering if the AI and actual-human have been assuming one-another’s roles. The mention of qualifications for beauty is one sign, but I had been wondering about the facial hair.
- 15:30 — Chess rating system, Elo rating system
- 16:30 — Send a philosopher
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21:00 —
- Uncanny valley
- Masahiro Mori (roboticist)
- Vincent van Gogh, a painter.
- Henry Ford, a business man who capitalized on early mass production of automobiles.
- 24:00 — Back to the Future – (1985 movie)
- 24:45 — Zero-sum in digestion would involve being able to deal with basic things like bacteria and dust.
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25:00 —
- Chymotrypsin
- Elastin
- prolo(?) no(?) Protease
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26:30 —
- e3 = Electronic Entertainment Expo
- Hollywood is a reference to the Cinema of the United States
- Blockbuster (entertainment)
- 28:30 — Oh god oh god oh god send a philosopher, and several other people.
- 29:30 — “I don’t know” isn’t good enough. Something that obviously different needs very serious discussion.
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- And no, it’s not beautiful. It’s fucking terrifying. It’s also a rock planted like a flower. Who does that?
- 32:45 — Fortune cookie
- 37:00 — Hertz (Hz)
- 38:45 — What? No woman ever does that.
- 44:30 — For some time now I had been thinking both of a kill switch and of the possibility and breadth of his independence. These are common necessities for artificial intelligence.
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50:00 —
- REM sleep = Rapid eye movement sleep
- .. and no, as I understand the actual reason for sleep is not known.
- Meditation
- 50:30 — Defragmentation, something I haven’t done in forever. Both the btrfs and ext4 filesystems don’t need it. Windows (Windows 10) does it as part of regular maintenance.
- 50:45 — Coffee
- 1:00:15 — Food presentation
- 1:02:30 — Benjamin Franklin, Kite experiment
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1:20:30 — Domestic surveillance
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