Dopamine: An AI platform for designing human behavior

Post by RAB1138 » Wed, Nov 08, 2017, 6:22 AM UTC

ryderm wrote: post #39

RAB1138 wrote: post #28

Hi! Founder (Brown) here. Appreciate the traffic! Also, would love to clear up mob misconceptions about: -Why did we pick lightening-rod branding? -Why was this the most humanitarian use of a neuroscience MS/PhD? -What quality of people must we be to do this? -What is design's ethical imperative that, 100 years ago when most died of infections diseases, that this year the majority of people over 50 will die of strong…

So, if you would love to clear up the misconceptions, actually answer all of the questions you listed? The only one you answered is about discounts for your product.

Post by leggomylibro » Wed, Nov 08, 2017, 6:24 AM UTC

RAB1138 wrote: post #32

Fricken wrote: post #13

Before I even got through the first paragraph I was reminded of B.F. Skinner and his book 'Beyond Freedom and Dignity', which I read in high school. So it's pretty funny that they named their AI after him. Dopamine labs may be evil, but at least they're self aware.

We love that one! Required reading. His work on why you, me, everyone on this thread, and every species that's part of the subphylum Vertebrata shaped the course of thinking from contemporary Machine Learning techniques like Q-Learning to us! Not evil, have done our reading though ;)

Post by RAB1138 » Wed, Nov 08, 2017, 6:27 AM UTC

ryderm wrote: post #39

RAB1138 wrote: post #28

Hi! Founder (Brown) here. Appreciate the traffic! Also, would love to clear up mob misconceptions about: -Why did we pick lightening-rod branding? -Why was this the most humanitarian use of a neuroscience MS/PhD? -What quality of people must we be to do this? -What is design's ethical imperative that, 100 years ago when most died of infections diseases, that this year the majority of people over 50 will die of strong…

So, if you would love to clear up the misconceptions, actually answer all of the questions you listed? The only one you answered is about discounts for your product.

Post by markatkinson » Wed, Nov 08, 2017, 6:29 AM UTC

BayesStreet wrote: post #17

api wrote: post #15

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A casino is usually more profitable than a hospital too. It's probably the central problem of capitalism. Monetary systems draw no distinction between wealth creation and wealth extraction, and the second law of thermodynamics guarantees that the latter will always be much easier. When you design chips, cure diseases, or build rockets you are fighting entropy. When you addict, misinform, and con people entropy is on…

This article made me pretty sad and made me think of this too. I think what an ethical investor needs to do is not deploy capital to any industries that don't add real economic value or wealth or whatever you want to call it. Also, ethical founders should refuse capital from orgs that fund these projects. Basically starve these projects out, but that's sort of idealistic.

Post by RAB1138 » Wed, Nov 08, 2017, 6:30 AM UTC

zaptheimpaler wrote: post #11

nrjames wrote: post #6

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You may not have noticed that their other product is the exact opposite. Maybe that gives them some legal protection? http://youjustneedspace.com/

Thats despicable. They sell both the disease and a cure for double the money.