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Can AI Detect Emotions? Frame of Reference is Everything.

The AI had the right frame of reference. Nothing made sense until I changed my frame of reference.

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Richard BarrettPosted on April 27, 2023April 28, 2023Categories cheating, evolution, machine learning, personal, technologyTags cheating, emotions, evolution of emotionsLeave a comment on Can AI Detect Emotions? Frame of Reference is Everything.

Sedona Stories 1: Price Discovery

What should it cost? What is it worth?
How do you know? How can you find out?

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Richard BarrettPosted on April 15, 2023October 12, 2023Categories cheating, economy, evolution, markets, personal, processTags escalation clause, price discovery, real estate sales, Sedona3 Comments on Sedona Stories 1: Price Discovery

Why is Learning So Hard?

If you came here looking for wisdom, you will probably be disappointed. It seems like I have spent my entire life in some purgatory of forced learning, and I have not yet learned to love the learning process.

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Richard BarrettPosted on October 28, 2022November 19, 2022Categories cheating, personalLeave a comment on Why is Learning So Hard?

Evolution: Three Simple Steps Create the Explosion of Life

Evolution has only three steps: propagation, variation, and selection.

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Richard BarrettPosted on January 18, 2022February 6, 2022Categories books, change, cheating, evolution

Freeman Dyson Broke the Prisoners Dilemma

Freeman Dyson broke the Prisoners Dilemma by using Theory of Mind. His algorithm learned the reward matrix for the opponent, then retrained the opponent to use a different reward matrix, much more beneficial to to Dyson’s player.

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Richard BarrettPosted on March 9, 2019January 17, 2022Categories cheating, evolutionTags cheating, Freeman Dyson, prisoners dilemma, theory of mind

What’s a Market, Anyway?

Can a market be involuntary? Does a market require human participants? What is the biggest market in the world?

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Richard BarrettPosted on August 8, 2017January 17, 2022Categories cheating, evolution, marketsTags prisoners dilemma

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