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== About me == | == About me == | ||
I have a B.A. in philosophy from St. Olaf College. My post-graduation experiences have ranged from day trading to working on a patent for audio equalization. | I have a B.A. in philosophy from St. Olaf College. My post-graduation experiences have ranged from day trading to working on a patent for audio equalization. Jack of all trades, with the usual subtext. | ||
== Interests == | == Interests == | ||
- Wikis | - Wikis. I'd love to write papers about the psychology behind wiki contributions, and wikis as evolutionary (survival-of-the-fittest-contribution) ecosystems. Perhaps someday. | ||
- Future technological change (I find Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near" to be a very important, if somewhat naive, book- my review is [http://moderndragons.blogspot.com/2006/04/review-singularity-is-near.html here]). | - Future technological change (I find Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near" to be a very important, if somewhat naive, book- my review is [http://moderndragons.blogspot.com/2006/04/review-singularity-is-near.html here]). | ||
- | - Practicalities, ethics, and implications of human augmentation. I'm currently writing a paper with the tentative title, "A Framework for Understanding Intelligence Augmentation". | ||
- | - Various aspects of biology including neurology, genetics, and evolution. I've a particular interest in research into [http://moderndragons.blogspot.com/2007/07/scientific-research-15-gut-flora.html gut flora]. | ||
- | I blog at [http://moderndragons.blogspot.com/ http://moderndragons.blogspot.com/]. | ||
== Citizendium == | |||
I'm a member of Citizendium's Executive Committee. Please let me know if you need a hand with something. I tend to do more things off-wiki than on-wiki. | |||
I've written a decent bit about Citizendium, including: | |||
* A [http://moderndragons.blogspot.com/2006/10/citizendium.html lengthy blog post] (written just after Citizendium's announcement); | |||
* An article for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2007-07-30/News_from_Citizendium Wikipedia Signpost]; | |||
* A short introduction/opinion piece for [http://www.chilli.at/index.php?noframes=1&id=72-1-136&from= CHiLLi.cc]. | |||
== Requests for Collaboration == | |||
Practical: | |||
* T-shirts. I think it's high time that CZ got some official swag. Thinking about using either Cafe Press or Spreadshirt. | |||
Pie-in-the-sky: | |||
* The formalization and automation of some sort of wiki "impact factor" Citizendium members could show to e.g., tenure committees. I don't know the best and most realistic way to do this. I was thinking one could use UCSC's [http://trust.cse.ucsc.edu/ Mediawiki trust metric], maybe paired with some sort of pagerank-esque ranking to weight work on prominent pages more heavily. Unfortunately it's probably one of those solutions that's easy to describe vaguely in words and difficult to implement. | |||
[[Category:CZ Authors|Johnson, Mike]] | [[Category:CZ Authors|Johnson, Mike]] | ||
Latest revision as of 04:25, 22 November 2023
The account of this former contributor was not re-activated after the server upgrade of March 2022.
About me
I have a B.A. in philosophy from St. Olaf College. My post-graduation experiences have ranged from day trading to working on a patent for audio equalization. Jack of all trades, with the usual subtext.
Interests
- Wikis. I'd love to write papers about the psychology behind wiki contributions, and wikis as evolutionary (survival-of-the-fittest-contribution) ecosystems. Perhaps someday.
- Future technological change (I find Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near" to be a very important, if somewhat naive, book- my review is here).
- Practicalities, ethics, and implications of human augmentation. I'm currently writing a paper with the tentative title, "A Framework for Understanding Intelligence Augmentation".
- Various aspects of biology including neurology, genetics, and evolution. I've a particular interest in research into gut flora.
I blog at http://moderndragons.blogspot.com/.
Citizendium
I'm a member of Citizendium's Executive Committee. Please let me know if you need a hand with something. I tend to do more things off-wiki than on-wiki.
I've written a decent bit about Citizendium, including:
- A lengthy blog post (written just after Citizendium's announcement);
- An article for the Wikipedia Signpost;
- A short introduction/opinion piece for CHiLLi.cc.
Requests for Collaboration
Practical:
- T-shirts. I think it's high time that CZ got some official swag. Thinking about using either Cafe Press or Spreadshirt.
Pie-in-the-sky:
- The formalization and automation of some sort of wiki "impact factor" Citizendium members could show to e.g., tenure committees. I don't know the best and most realistic way to do this. I was thinking one could use UCSC's Mediawiki trust metric, maybe paired with some sort of pagerank-esque ranking to weight work on prominent pages more heavily. Unfortunately it's probably one of those solutions that's easy to describe vaguely in words and difficult to implement.