AI researcher, inventor, entrepreneur, philosopher, musician, transhumanist, futurist, free software author, demo scene coder.
I am a computer scientist with a deep interest in artificial intelligence. I have written my PhD thesis on the subject of parallel data mining. I am also an amateur philosopher advancing a new form of positivism, and digital philosophy. My research interests include artificial intelligence, artificial general intelligence, machine learning, data mining, cognitive architectures, theoretical neuroscience, parallel computing, compiler design, computer architecture, computer graphics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, and digital physics.
I am the inventor of Heuristic Algorithmic Memory concept, which is a long-term memory system for Artificial General Intelligence. I have designed a powerful AGI system called the examachine for scientific and engineering tasks. I have invented an FPGA virtualization scheme for Global Supercomputing, Inc. which was internationally patented. I have also invented a new energy based currency, which can drive green energy proliferation.
I am a transhumanist with egalitarian, democratic, ultra-progressive views. I write articles for Humanity+ magazine from time to time. I founded "AI Philosophy" mailing list with Marvin Minsky and many AI enthusiasts in year 2000 as a continuation of comp.ai.philosophy, it is one of the oldest transhumanist communities in existence. The later facebook group is an extension of the same community. I am also a moderator of the popular Artificial Intelligence community on google+. I coined the term "scientific transhumanism" to denote my particular, positivist approach to transhumanism, and organized the same named facebook community with a scientist friend around this notion, and helped popularize this interpretation of transhumanism. I am also a moderator of Egalitarian Transhumanism facebook group. I think that we can improve man in every conceivable way. I strive to make mankind not just smarter, stronger, faster, and living longer, but also better. I also think that it is possible to transcend the fragile flesh that severely limits our existence.
I try to lead a life of contemplation, but I reject a humorless existence. I follow my passions, wherever it may lead to.
I am a humble amateur musician and a vocalist, and I have an industrial band called Malfunct, aka its Turkish version Ariza. You can find more information about my band in https://facebook.com/arizanesil . I haven't released an album yet, but I have given many concerts and I have a few albums' worth of material.
I have contributed to free software whenever I had the time. I am the lead author of a cool package manager called pisi which was the crown jewel of the pardus linux distribution, and I received an award for it (I wrote almost all of it, save for the build commands, about 90%). I have contributed to KDE music player and gideon projects, and released some projects of my own. I am proficient in a large number of programming languages. I prefer ocaml, python, and R for most of my software development.
I used to be a demo scene coder. I am exa/Bronx, part of the legendary Turkish Amiga demo scene group. I learnt programming the hard way, hacking assembly on my own. I did not have a computer graphics textbook, so I invented 3d computer graphics on my own, based on the 2d trigonometry we learnt at high-school when I was 16. I wrote some of my best codes on the Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200, I developed advanced assembly optimization methods on my own and wrote a small OS for my demos, without any guidance, only reading and writing code and using standard Amiga OS manuals. I still love my Amiga!
Please follow my blog http:///log.examachine.net if you would like to read my sporadic, but thoughtful essays on AI and transhumanism mostly.
Onwards to the future!