WRT screens, I’m inspired to suggest, that there may be a difference between using software produced commercially and software produced non-commercially. If there was an open-source version of the Kindle, I’d be much more confidently on-board for it. One thing about books is that traditional publishing really was a different thing from other industries, and to was a great extent a public trust, done for reasons other than profit. I LOVE Amazon, and before it, Borders and Barnes and Nobel, in terms of their short-term effects, but in the long term, the world really needs publishing that’s not profit driven. Blogs used to be that too, for that matter. It’s possible that the ban on social media ought really to be a ban on ‘advertising’ or even broader, on ‘communications’ as the topic would be understood in a college classroom, that is, on messages produced with the intention to create a specific outcome.
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I’d like to try to figure out together what could make it and subsequent posts clearer.
The end of the USSR was sort-of this situation in reverse, with government employees continuing to do their jobs for years after there was anyone to pay them and eventually stopping when they were no longer in a position to continue.
Part of the issue is a bias toward skepticism, part is a bias toward seeing the role of language as discursive rather than active. In the idealized situation, one can cleanly separate the discursive speech of the trial from the active speech of the judge’s or jury’s final decision, but there are also times when one simply takes a vocal action without any prior discourse, for instance, shouting ‘Stop’ based on one’s own type two error laden perception. Doing this is a form of aggression, an attempt to control the group’s behavior personally rather than only doing so through the medium of discourse, but all politics is aggression and a HUGE fraction of what people do is politics.
As a general rule, when you are participating in a political conflict, you are taking sides whether you want to or not, and if you consistently take the side of the powerful, of those who have more authority and more live options, others are correct to notice you doing so and to incentivize you to do otherwise.
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My guess is that ‘Slack’ reads differently in social and material reality. Maya is, in a sense, signaling infinite slack, but in a manner which actually consumes any possible reserve of slack. I think a careful reading of Rao shows that sacrificing the thing for the representation of the thing is what he refers to as ‘creating social capital’.
In this case, I think it’s worth being very VERY curious as to how that judge got in there in the first place. It’s also probably worth eventually doing psychological research in order to classify types of judge, in case they aren’t all the same. Do mathematicians above a certain caliber all possess internal judges with a common standard for proof? How does this phenomenon relate to actual judges?
In general, I would expect a person following this advice to, in the average case, diverge from the process of creating a map in correspondence with the territory, towards the replacement of the map with a feedback system conditioning model-free harmony. I would expect that their mind would gradually transition from asking ‘is this true’ to asking ‘is this what power wants me to say’, and eventually to come to see truth as a dreadful constraint on safety rather than as a support with which to achieve safety. I would expect them to grow in their ability to lead and to sell, but to loose the ability to manage, or otherwise constrain the actions of a group in order to direct them towards some goal other than politics.
That doesn’t at all mean that the ideal mode of cognition involves such a judge. Just that collaborative cognition requires a common set of protocols and this seems to be the default such set of protocols for constructive collaboration, while other protocols seem favored by predatory collaboration and seem likely to emerge if not suppressed.
Build a seed AI seems like something that would translate into a religious proposal to me. Discover God perhaps? Might it work better if proposed by someone who didn’t understand the implications of AGI? Would discussion of MNT translate ad the suggestion of miniaturizing Hiero’s engine and the Antikythera mechanism, or scaling them up? The rules of this game really don’t seem clear enough. We need to get feedback from Archimedes on what he’s hearing. Personally, I strongly suspect that when it comes to ethical and political ideas the Ancient Greeks will understand us fairly well without much need for metaphorical translation, so long as we keep the discussion abstract. Women’s suffrage = wise dictator? For people who’s ancestors were inventing democracies of a sort and writing Lysistrata centuries earlier? Make the machine reversible and if you suggest women’s suffrage and he responds about Hiero II, you will hear a sensible to modern ears argument for moving to Singapore.
Possibly stop trying to save the world *in cities where ‘save the world TM’ is an established ‘personal narrative’ and where terminal PoMo makes it impossible to express propositions as anything but your ‘personal narrative’*.