# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (Nov 8, 2009)

• Participants discussed the Singularity Summit 2009 videos that had recently been uploaded to Vimeo, with specific mentions of talks by David Chalmers, Ed Boyden, Anders Sandberg, Aubrey de Grey, and Stuart Hameroff, noting that Stephen Wolfram's presentation style was "like an animatronic robot designed for synchronous hand-waving."

• There was discussion about Open Source Ecology (OSE), with clarification that it was Marcin Jakubowski's project, not Nathan Cravens' as someone had mistakenly thought.

• A participant was working on building software packages with OpenCascade and encountering dependency issues with libraries like libShHealOper.a and SalomeGeometry (SGeom).

• A request was made for research on computers detecting normative assertions, with a recommendation to watch Ben Veerwayen's EmTech 09 talk described as "hilarious" (https://www.technologyreview.com/emtech/videos/login.aspx?ETCEvent=95&y=2009).

• Kanzure shared several computational linguistics resources, including a "synonym following game" (http://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2009/01/synonym-following-game.html), WordNet similarity tools, and NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit) documentation for clustering words based on synonyms and semantic context.

• There was a brief philosophical discussion about the ethical treatment of an injured grasshopper, which evolved into a half-serious conversation about insect consciousness and the possibility of reverse-engineering grasshopper vision.