Coincidentally, given the topic of [SG]AI and the semantic grounding of rhetorical terms:
The meaning of life in a world without work https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/08/virtual-reality-religion-robots-sapiens-book?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=225051&subid=22800997&CMP=GT_US_collection > What is a religion if not a big virtual reality game played by millions of > people together? Religions like Islam and Christianity invent imaginary laws, > such as “don’t eat pork”, “repeat the same prayers a set number of times each > day”, “don’t have sex with somebody from your own gender”, and so forth. > These laws exist only in the human imagination. I've had several friends suggest they'd like to start their own cult. I even inducted 2 of them into my Discordian charter. That wasn't good enough, though, because as Episkopos, I don't care what my priests do. It also happens that these friends are programmers, even if not professionally. So, there's more to Harari's analogy than meets the eye, I think. I've long believed, when managing people, the single critical attribute is "tolerance of ambiguity". Those of us who get too hung up on definite axiomatic approaches are, I think, at the most risk of losing their jobs to an SAI. Those of us who tolerate (especially drastic) semantic shifts, on the fly, may survive through any Singularity. -- ␦glen? ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
