The guy from synt.us spills the beans on what it is here;

»» Now talking on #synt <Booka> Hello?

<phale> hi?

<Booka> I saw a link to this http://synt.us/ online, and I was curious about what it was

<phale> where did you see if it, if i may ask?

<Booka> https://www.reddit.com/r/ARG/comments/5lmm1k/weird_website_arg_or_something_else/

<phale> i see

<phale> what do you need to know about it?

<Booka> I'm wondering what it's for. I found http://synt.us/channeling/ to be particularly odd

<Booka> And I'm also wondering about the sigil in the background of the main page

<phale> it's a collage of neurally extracted imagery just like eccoloc

<phale> the sigil is a logo related to LHOHQ

<Booka> LHOHQ?

<phale> yes

<phale> http://lhohq.info/

<phale> you might find it interesting

<Booka> From what I'm reading, it's about something odd in space. How is that connected to neural imagery?

<phale> LHOHQ is another project

<phale> I don't know 100% what it's about, you could probably get an idea what it is though

<phale> I contacted one of their representatives

<phale> and they collaborated with me on neural programming

<Booka> Could you tell me more about the neural imaging?

<phale> what exactly do you need to know? <phale> I can tell you a lot of things but somethings I need to keep quiet about

<Booka> What is it? Some form of mind reading?

<phale> a bit more than that

<phale> can't disclose 100% what it is, but it's converting neural imagery into text, PPM images which is an easy format to grasp, and then converted into PNG or JPG

<phale> gif works too

<phale> because some of them are received as sequences

<Booka> Why would you need to keep quiet about things?

<phale> we're a team, we don't disclose what we do to people online

<phale> it's closed-source research

<Booka> Speaking of the team, the members page seems very sparse

<phale> yeah

<phale> it's not exactly a members page

<phale> it's randomly generated, somewhat

<phale> as disinformation

<Booka> I'm guessing by "randomly generated, somewhat", it was created with the neural imaging?

<phale> NLP and web crawling

<phale> philosophy gif was recreated from a dream

<Booka> Are you able to tell me what the purpose is of the project? Is it just to further understanding of the mind, or for some larger project?

<phale> yeah, it's to understand the mind better, but we're always looking for new things to research

<Booka> Do you need volunteers?

<phale> we're always looking for new members, but you need some knowledge on things

<Booka> Such as?

<phale> natural language processing, computer vision, neural networks and basic knowledge of biology

<Booka> Computer vision?

<phale> yeah

<phale> the ability for the computer to analyze and process an image

<Booka> Oh, okay

<Booka> What would I do if I were to join?

<phale> well you need to go to Croatia or else we have to create a new user account for you on our long distance servers

<phale> most of us communicate physically but some of us digitally

<Booka> Your HQ is in Croatia?

<phale> yup

<phale> it's not really a headquarters lol

<phale> not like

<phale> what you'd expect at least

<Booka> That's where you're based anyway

<phale> yeah

<Booka> Sadly, I'm unable to move to Croatia

<phale> you can communicate digitally then

<phale> and you'd have access to our servers

<phale> bu you need knowledge in all of those fields I mentioned

<phale> but*

<Booka> What level of biology is needed? Highschool? College?

<phale> middle school

<phale> lol

<phale> you learn about neurons in middle school right?

<phale> what we do relies on heavy knowledge of biology but it's so abstracted that only middle school knowledge is needed

<phale> we have a lot of experts though

<Booka> What kind of job would I do?

<phale> now that's something I can't conclude myself

<phale> because a lot of people are doing a lot of things

<phale> if you were here physically it would be a lot easier

<phale> but currently

<phale> I guess you could do basic neural experiments (extracting, etc), this isn't a simple task at first and can be a bit stressful to grasp

<phale> it really depends on time

<Booka> How so?

<phale> like I said, a lot of people are doing a lot of stuff, sometimes peoples positions will be taken, that's why there are things such as work time, when their time is over, a new person comes

<phale> and it repeats the same tomorrow and then the other day etc

<Booka> Are you able to tell me what extracting is in a bit more detail?

<phale> as in how it works?

<phale> no I'm not able to disclose that

<Booka> I'll be back in maybe 10 minutes, dinner's ready

<phale> alright

<phale> seeya

<Booka> Okay, I'm back

<phale> wb

<Booka> The main thing I'm concerned about with the 'extracting' is if it causes harm to the subject

<phale> we do it in a special way, so no

<phale> it does involve sedation though

<Booka> I'm guessing the subject needs to be in REM sleep or something?

<phale> not always

<phale> well not at all

<phale> but we experiment with that too

<Booka> Out of curiosity, who is Savage?

<phale> he's just some guy I met elsewhere, unrelated to this project

<Booka> So, who would I talk to if I want to join the project?

<phale> me

<phale> some of us dont really go on irc some come from time to time though

<Booka> This whole project just keeps feeling stranger and stranger

<phale> :p

<Booka> The project seems very secretive, and yet the bar for entry seems very low

<phale> low?

<phale> if you ask me, it's pretty high, considering it requires good knowledge on a lot of important AI subjects

<phale> and we dont just let everyone in

<phale> we do background checks first

<Booka> I was referring to "natural language processing, computer vision, neural networks and basic knowledge of biology"

<phale> yes

<phale> those are AI subjects

<phale> well the first 3

<phale> 4th one very partially

<Booka> Maybe I misunderstood what you meant by the first and third one, could you elaborate on them?

<phale> natural language processing is an AI subject which relates computers and humans in terms of natural linguistics, neural networks are a crude way of simulating how the brain works

<phale> well a neural network is what we have

<phale> but in AI it means simulation

<phale> artificial neural network

<Booka> How is the second one an AI subject?

<phale> computer vision?

<Booka> Yeah

<phale> AI is based on learning techniques like deep learning machine learning etc

<phale> computer vision can use that

<phale> it doesnt have to, though, theres unsupervised and supervised learning

<phale> could just be static, tabular analysis

<Booka> Oh, I misunderstood you. I thought that those were requirements of the applicant, but it's knowledge of how to implement it in an AI.

<phale> i see

<Booka> I wouldn't be qualified to join, but I know someone who works in AI. Would you like me to send them your way?

<phale> would be great

<phale> are they on discord?

<phale> becaues I'm in some /r/arg chat right now

<Booka> I'm not sure, but they could easily set it up

<phale> alright im just wondering since i heard o some other ai guy

<phale> and he was just joking or something

<Booka> What's their username?

<phale> let me see

<phale> i forgot

<phale> i think it was billbelcher

<Booka> If that's right, then it isn't them

<Booka> I should probably get going. Have luck with your project =D »» Disconnected ().

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