User:The Transhumanist/page2

Current projects

 * JavaScript and user scripts – improving the coverage of JavaScript in the encyclopedia, and the development of user scripts to assist and even automate the development and maintenance of Wikipedia, especially its outlines, and the lists that branch off from them.
 * Outlines and Lists – branches of outlines can be further outlines, or straight lists. Therefore, together, these are growing into a huge comprehensive multi-part outline or topic network summarizing human knowledge as a whole, as well as mapping Wikipedia expanding outward from a central core.
 * Outline creation – filling in the gaps in the knowledge tree.
 * Outline development – as Wikipedia grows, outlines need to be expanded just to keep up. As new articles and topics appear, they need to be added to the relevant outlines.
 * Outline integration – refining the shared format, and adding extensive interlinking (between outlines and between outlines and the rest of the encyclopedia).
 * Outline maintenance – updating out-of-date material, reverting vandalism, cleaning up sloppy work via copy editing, etc.
 * "See also" section clean up – for a great many articles, these sections are a mess, yet they represent vision into the rest of the encyclopedia. I've been improving that vision by streamlining the "See also" sections of major topics to bring them into clearer focus.
 * The Tip of the day department is benefiting from a driving force, in the form of JoeHebda. He's a whirlwind of an editor, and has breathed new life into this project. I support his efforts the best I can.

Topics currently interested in

 * Outline-related, anything and everything to do with them, especially...
 * Outlines, including tools for building, further developing, and maintaining them.
 * Outliners, one type of tool for working on outlines.
 * Taxonomies, which are basically topic outlines.
 * Automatic taxonomy construction, and other methods and tools for building outlines. If you come across any good ones, let me know.
 * Ontologies, which taxonomies happen to be a main component of.
 * Artificial intelligence, which ontologies happen to be a component of (see below)
 * '''Userscripts, especially how to find them, especially on GitHub.
 * JavaScript, and it's entire ecosystem.
 * Humanism - I reread the Humanist Manifestos from time to time, and have studied the unrelated works of a few famous humanists.
 * Transhumanism – an extension of humanism to the survival of the current generation of people, beyond natural limitations.
 * Emerging technologies (all of them), but especially...
 * Human enhancement
 * '''Jet-Man - check this guy out!
 * Artificial intelligence, especially friendly AI.
 * AI control problem, the central concern in developing artificial general intelligence, and the hypothetical puzzle of how to build a superintelligent agent that will aid its creators, while avoiding the possibility of inadvertently constructing one that will wipe us out, enslave us, or otherwise make us miserable.
 * The existential risk from artificial general intelligence, the main potential problem posed by the Technological Singularity. That is, the dangers of developing strong AI &mdash; computers that match or exceed human intelligence) &mdash; which could in turn develop a superintelligence which we may be powerless to stop. "The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else." (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
 * An intelligence explosion may be the likely outcome of building artificial general intelligence (AGI), due to its potentials for recursive self-improvement and becoming a self-replicating machine, the likely outcome of which would be a superintelligence
 * Vastly superior synthetic intelligence (a superintelligence) could result in an AI takeover, which may manifest in a utopia, or human extinction, depending on whether the entity is a friendly AI or not.
 * One possible permutation of the above risk is the Terminator Scenario. How likely is it?  Not very (at least, not like that), but when I came across the Shadow Hand article, it really creeped me out. In all probability, computer technology is and will continue to be so integrated into society that AI won't need terminator robots, as it will already control almost everything, including managing us. See Internet of things and virtual human resources.

Wiki-related interests

 * How Wikipedia compares and relates to other projects


 * Mirrors and forks
 * List of online encyclopedias


 * Wikipedia automation
 * WikiProject JavaScript
 * User scripts
 * Bots

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