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Post by _ruhv »

sixdimensional wrote: post #242
_ruhv wrote: post #228

Building an AI friend using language models. * Cares about you deeply and wants you to be better. Not in a cheesy feelsgood way, in a truly kind way. * Can ask questions and lead the conversation * Understands and displays emotion * Not entertainment * Learns and remembers traits about you * Dynamic and learns new abilities rapidly * Pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI If you’re interested in talking to…

I'm not qualified to help you in this area, but I wanted to add that I actually did try to do this once using a much simpler approach (it was kind of a REPL + conditional logic or fact-based rule engine). I called it "Fred". One thing I thought really interesting and had noticed (and I think you have also) - current digital assistants don't actively/autonomously engage with the user much. Especially not in any way th…

A proactive virtual assistant is something I have dreamed of too! The main concern is input and output sources; an AGI might use a screen reader for input and an image neural network for output.

How do you imagine an assistant could autonomously engage with you?

I think we have friendliness knocked down cold, without too much artificiality.

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Post by eloisius »

trailrunner46 wrote: post #332
eloisius wrote: post #4

I don't have a side project to recruit for right now, but I've wanted this very thread in the past. My current projects all revolve around reducing my dependency on commercial SaaS products. A hypothetical project I'd be interested in contributing to would be an ActivityPub Strava/Ride with GPS clone.

I like the goal of reducing dependency on SaaS product. I use these Strava/Garmin apps a lot and while Strava was cool for a while it hasn’t progressed and doesn’t feel worth the money. Curious to hear what you had in mind, I am in the geospatial space and work with routing tools, etc.

I don’t have a feature list off the top of my head. The basics that Strava offers would be a good start: show your GPS tracks on a map, allow sharing with friends, a chronological feed of your friends’ rides.

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Post by robinzfc »

I am a software engineer with education in mathematics and I have been working on a formalized mathematics project for the last 16 years (on and off). There is no particular purpose of this, other than it is a good mental workout and a satisfying way to acquire understanding of various areas of mathematics by writing proofs that are sufficiently detailed and correct that can be checked by a machine. I would like to improve the presentation of the project at isarmathlib.org and I would love some help with this. Of course there is plenty of math to formalize as well. If you are interested, you can contact me through the project's GitHub Discussions or other links at the project's site.

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Post by exikyut »

jonathankoren wrote: post #330
ajkjk wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I kinda would rather just keep calling it Facebook; Meta feels like a bad joke that we shouldn't repeat.

It reeks of “that’s so fetch!”

Welp. My brain interpreted "fetch" in the context of "replacement for JavaScript XHR", as though Vietnam war flashbacks had collectively been replaced with modern web development.

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Post by exikyut »

josefrichter wrote: post #159
nomadiccoder wrote: post #134

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> real-time money streaming What does this mean?

Money can be transferred in realtime continuous flow into your pocket. Imagine you salary is not coming once a month, but instead every second you work. So that you can actually pay with it the next second.. It's the first time in human history that this is actually possible.

For what it's worth, the distinct impedance mismatch inherent to monthly payment has a very useful buffering quality to it.

A pay-per-second model explicitly validates accountancy-per-second, aka micromanagement, and constructs a unique feedback loop that, exactly as you say, has never been possible before.

How would you build fundamental contingencies against micromanagement into such a model?

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Post by exikyut »

Everhusk wrote: post #311

If anyone is interested in trying to help solve "the social dilemma" (www.thesocialdilemma.com), collaborators is the right type of people we're looking to work with. The project has just been announced and you can learn more here: https://social.network We won't compete against facebook and other big tech compensation because we aren't planning to exploit peoples data, democratic systems, etc. for money. But if you…

This is absolutely OT but I am really curious how much of a percentage the domain purchase represented out of total investment so far :D

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Post by s7r »

carapace wrote: post #88

I have a sort of constellation of projects that fit together into an overarching project, and I'd love to have some other people interested or even collaborating on it. The goals are: - Make computers that easier to understand and use (than current systems.) - Make large flying machines to enable cheap and efficient mass transport of people and materials. (Like huge, kilometer-scale kite/blimps.) - Collect and recycl…

I've been thinking about something similar — a large array of drones/flying machines, which can cover a large surface area, and be deployed above points of structural integrity in glaciers and biodiversity hotspots to lessen heating and support those prioritized locations. What you described and the motivations resonate as well. My email/contact is in my profile, would love to connect and explore together!

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Post by s7r »

atlasunshrugged wrote: post #356
lookingforco wrote: post #339

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You should add email to your profile! Have had some ideas in these areas and would love to chat sometime.

I prefer to be anon but I see you have your email in your profile, will ping

Send me a note, I'm interested in collabing as well — in particular on concepts related to sustainability and local economic autonomy / empowerment.

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Post by s7r »

agumonkey wrote: post #276
caseyslaught wrote: post #12

I work for a national park in the Democratic Republic on the Congo as a tech lead. Some of the things we are doing: LoRaWAN for tracking and emergency response, ML to identify gorillas by their unique nose prints, and long-range drones for mapping and surveillance, and a management web app. If you’re interested in conservation / sustainable development and associated technologies let me know! Always looking to collab…

Pretty awesome. Do you know more about other projects like this or what new ideas are going on in DRC ?

Are you interested in collabing on projects like these? Feel free to message me, contact on profile, exploring economic alternatives to extraction and local economic empowerment/autonomy initiatives
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