Re: [x-risk] Vancouver BC - Canada

[Eric Chisholm]

Hey all, Jaap here posted to the x-risk network looking to get out of the games industry, and into a hard programming job that directly helps with x-risk, does anyone know of such a company?

On Jul 8, 2014 2:16 PM, "Jaap Suter" <con...@jaapsuter.com> wrote:

Jup, East Van. (probably best to take local/area-specific discussion off the list I wonder?)

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Eric Chisholm <kyt...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm not aware of any such companies, but there's a few of us in the area, most of whom I don't think are on this list. Do you live in Vancouver?

On Jul 8, 2014 12:21 PM, "Jaap Suter" <con...@jaapsuter.com> wrote:

Hello,

Is anybody aware of any X-Risk (or tangentially related) companies located in the Vancouver BC, Canada area that have a need for hard programming skills (i.e., not looking for web-design or iPhone app development, thinking more along the lines of low-level performance engineering by moving some legacy Perl DNA analysis scripts over to the GPU for 100x performance improvements -- as just one example, could be anything).

Been in games industry for far too long, time to make better use of my time.

Thanks,

Jaap Suter - http://jaapsuter.com

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "X Risk Network" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to x-risk-networ...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "X Risk Network" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to x-risk-networ...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "X Risk Network" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to x-risk-networ...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[Wolf Tivy]

In Vancouver? Good luck, I don't know of any. If any such company does exist, someone on this list would know of it.

Isn't Carrie wanting to do a cryonics thing here? How's that going? Not X-risk, but appeals to the same crowd.

--

---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vancouver Rationalists" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vancouver-rationa...@googlegroups.com.

[Andrew McKnight]

Hi Jaap, I'm interested in the answer to this question.

I don't have much help I can offer (yet) but I also live in East Van and am a programmer working to reduce x-risk, but from a donations angle at the moment (with only partial success. I save badly.) I'd be interested in brainstorming some time.

One crappy suggestion for a hard programming job to reduce x-risk is to apply stats and machine learning to forecasting of decision relevant info. This sounds fun and hard and I don't think you can find a job doing it without working remotely, and even then there's probably only a few in the world. Again, I'd love to get coffee and brainstorm and/or research.

The cryonics company lost it's major potential funding source and is unlikely to happen soon, though Carrie hasn't given up. We only have about 10% of the required funds.