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Anyone familiar with Paul Pfeiffer’s pioneering moving-image work knows that he has been out ahead of “the culture” for more than twenty years. Yet the manipulations and labors he thought to exert on at-one-time recalcitrant film and video frames have now been incorporated into platform and persuasion technologies that have touched us all, whether we’re aware of it or not.

LESSWRONG 88 ( Originally posted in December 2015: A dialogue between Ashley, a computer scientist whos never heard of i.  Unbounded analysis BLAINE:  Good evening, Msr. Ashley. ASHLEY:  Ive heard theres this thing called "Solomonoffs theory of inductive inference". BLAINE:  The rumors have spread, then. ASHLEY:  Yeah, so, what the heck is that about? BLAINE:  Invented in the 1960s by the mathematician Ray Solomonoff, the key idea in Solomonoff induction is to do sequence prediction by u...