I remember rationalizing television advertising when I was a teenager as a healthy thing, so that people would not be easily manipulated. Somehow that all got turned on its head with social media. Maybe they were always easily manipulated? Soon, if not already, photographic and audio recordings will be meaningless. Strange times..
-----Original Message----- From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 9:15 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] crackpots and privilege I'm not a fan of evolutionary psychology. But there's some sort of sufficiency argument to be made, here. If some thing exists, then it must be at least somehow useful. That implies that PTSD is somehow useful [⛧]. It may not protect you from freezing to death. But it probably protects you from or facilitates some other circumstance. I mean, lots of people complain about things like psychopathy, narcissism, sickle cell, etc. But recessive traits (and defense mechanisms, "negative" emotions, etc.) help to keep the "temperature up" ... or at least help keep it raisable when necessary. At some point as the environment builds, though, no amount or composition of these potential behaviors are enough to hop to a different canal or form new canals, at least not in isolation. [⛧] My own guess is that the diagnosis of PTSD relies fundamentally on temporal displacement. "Your stress response *was* appropriate at one time. But it is no longer appropriate." The focus on "debilitating" in the DSM is time and circumstance dependent. On 5/31/23 09:00, Marcus Daniels wrote: > I don't see how PTSD protects people from starvation or death from 35 degC > wet-bulb temperatures. It seems more likely to me they'll die. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 8:59 AM > To: friam@redfish.com > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] crackpots and privilege > > Well of course with enough capital ... enough of a heavy rain or intense heat > bath, you can jump canals. But even Elno faced the canals after buying > Twitter. "They", millionaires and billionaires, may not need to be slave to a > map. But everyone else does, including the AIs. > > > On 5/31/23 08:52, Marcus Daniels wrote: >> To me it just seems like high temperature. An Elizabeth Holmes or her more >> numerous male psychopath counterparts can turn up the temperature. They >> don't need to be slave to map, but they can use one. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen >> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 7:54 AM >> To: friam@redfish.com >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] crackpots and privilege >> >> Ferality (?) helps because it resists or mitigates canalization. The built >> environment canalizes behavior such that even if there *might have been* >> some other way to be, imagined in the fever dreams of a psychonaut, nobody >> can actually be that way because the built environment constrains the >> organism too much. Ideally, ferality is a kind of open computation ... an >> initialization strategy akin to randomizing the "weights" ... something like >> annealing, I guess. >> >> I can imagine a compromise where we allocate some to a (multiple?) feral >> initialization and others to a (multiple?) semi-structure(s) and sitll >> others to a (multiple?) very structured game(s). I haven't been keeping up, >> but it still seems like an open question whether ferality has higher degrees >> of freedom than the scaffolding provided by structure. >> >> On 5/31/23 07:44, Marcus Daniels wrote: >>> To independently navigate the post AI world will require people that aren't >>> fooled by fake media and are confident in their reasonably-useful models of >>> the world? How does being feral help? >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of glen >>> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 7:13 AM >>> To: friam@redfish.com >>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] crackpots and privilege >>> >>> Yeah, that was a great show. I suppose I can see "mostly independent" >>> humans at around 10 years ... maybe even down to 5, I guess. But 2? That >>> seems extreme. Of course, I'm ignorant of the anthropology. Maybe 2 year >>> olds used to be much more coordinated, perhaps taller, with a better >>> developed cortex? I thought there was a spike in pruning circa 4 years? I >>> suppose, just like height and other features, that pruning spike might move >>> around depending on environmental pressure. >>> >>> On 5/31/23 06:38, Marcus Daniels wrote: >>>> There's also "Hanna" (2011) and the series that followed. >>>> >>>>> On May 31, 2023, at 6:24 AM, glen <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> What?!? The idea of a gaggle of toddlers running around hunting >>>>> and cooking, say, boar for supper is astounding. Even Children of >>>>> the Corn were older than 2. 8^D >>>>> >>>>>> On 5/31/23 06:19, Prof David West wrote: >>>>>> "the extended juvenile development of humans," is an artifact of modern >>>>>> industrial society. For "de-domesticated humans" development to, mostly, >>>>>> independent existence was only marginally longer than that of other >>>>>> large mammals. Roughly two years for humans, 18 months for elephants and >>>>>> bears and large cats,12 months for a host of other species. >>>>>> davew >>>>>>> On Wed, May 31, 2023, at 5:34 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote: >>>>>>> Eric's musing on the character of the saving remnant reminded me of >>>>>>> Ötzi, the Tyrolean ice mummy, as portrayed in >>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceman_(2017_film) >>>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceman_(2017_film)>. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Some commentators note the western movie tropes, but when Ötzi gears up >>>>>>> to chase down the pillagers of his family settlement, he also straps on >>>>>>> the infant who was the sole survivor of the pillaging. Of course he >>>>>>> drops the kid off with the first available woman he meets. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Shades of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_and_Cub >>>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_and_Cub>, the samurai with a >>>>>>> baby carriage. But as I remember, the cub became part of the lone >>>>>>> wolf's arsenal. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> So, when you posit a de-domesticated human, what happens to the >>>>>>> extended juvenile development of humans? Babies and toddlers are going >>>>>>> to remain domestic concerns no matter how much bourgeois mediocrity you >>>>>>> eject from your morality, no? And I guess burnt out philosophers with >>>>>>> mental health issues will be domestic issues, too, even if they were >>>>>>> once supermen? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- rec -- >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 10:04 AM Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com >>>>>>>> <mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> "What do I think the saving remnant will be? I imagine people >>>>>>> who lost all the epigenetic marks associated with domestication, and >>>>>>> took on hormone profiles more like chimps. Or “born this way” to PTSD." >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In stories like Elysium, the saving remnant survives. Why >>>>>>> doesn't popular science fiction consider the future in which only >>>>>>> Elysium endures? We have lots of experience on earth making sure >>>>>>> that communities are partitioned by socioeconomic status. All of the >>>>>>> saving remnants I see around here are homeless or hovering near death >>>>>>> due to use of heroin and fentanyl. The deer, however, happily munch >>>>>>> on my front yard plants. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film) >>>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film)> >>>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>>> From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com >>>>>>> <mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> On Behalf Of glen >>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2023 7:27 AM >>>>>>> To: friam@redfish.com <mailto:friam@redfish.com> >>>>>>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] crackpots and privilege >>>>>>> >>>>>>> "Somehow not the domain of peace and spirituality that I think >>>>>>> first-worlders like to project onto first-nationers, and which might >>>>>>> even be true for the first-nationers, since they are also from a milder >>>>>>> time by a lot than a large extinction." >>>>>>> >>>>>>> IDK, man. Are wild animals different from us in any significant >>>>>>> way? Are they actually never lazy, never unvigilant, etc? Or, perhaps, >>>>>>> is the attribution of vigilance (and hence never unvigilance) an >>>>>>> illusion born of othering? A standard whipping post for me is this "Are >>>>>>> you a cat person or a dog person" cocktail party ice breaker. Admitting >>>>>>> the false dichotomy, dog people tend to think of cats as non-social, >>>>>>> selfish, blahblah. Cat people tend to think of dogs as slobbery, vapid, >>>>>>> etc. It's complete nonsense born of arbitrary delusions. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> But of course, there is something to be said of the built >>>>>>> environment. It would be difficult for a human reared in a city to >>>>>>> navigate the Mongolian desert. But is that difference any greater than >>>>>>> plopping a city dweller 13,000 years in the past? Are office or >>>>>>> political games significantly different from the "games" wild babies >>>>>>> play under the vigilant eye of their den mother? Yeah, I know. I'm >>>>>>> putting too much weight on "significant". Obviously, everything's >>>>>>> different from everything else. (I regret not being able to engage more >>>>>>> with Jon's exploration of Deleuze.) But my conservatism tells me that >>>>>>> objective othering would rely solely on coherent traits, fingers vs. >>>>>>> claws, hair vs. fur, cortex or no cortex. A human now would be >>>>>>> insignificantly different from a human then. If the apocalypse doesn't >>>>>>> transform us into something other than human, whatever is rebuilt will >>>>>>> be strikingly similar to what we have now. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 5/28/23 11:29, David Eric Smith wrote: >>>>>>> > I’m not sure elitist, Steve, >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > That’s one bad habit that I don’t think they have. >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > More along the line, I suspect, of “out of ordinary people who >>>>>>> mostly get mowed down, here and there will be some pockets that started >>>>>>> to pay attention and got lucky enough to have time to make a culture of >>>>>>> it, of sorts” >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > Wes Jackson likes the term “saving remnant”. >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > I happen to be in Sweden just now, and it has me thinking >>>>>>> about sci-fi futures, ad also Nietzsche’s “last man” etc. >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > Also on this theme is the very interesting SFI lecture “living >>>>>>> with distrust”, which signals things I have seen (Ernst Fehr?) and >>>>>>> others say about the Ache and Machiguenga and other groups. >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > Take any wild animal, and contemplate just how _different_ >>>>>>> they are from us. Never lazy. Never un-vigilant. Or read Jonathan >>>>>>> Shay’s Achilles in Vietnam. >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > Suppose all the people who remain have survived only because >>>>>>> they are that. Unwind not only the past 70 years of developed-world >>>>>>> tranquility, but the history of human domestication since at least the >>>>>>> younger dryas. Maybe a lot longer ago than that. >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > What is it like to have your Time Machine and go spend a >>>>>>> weekend with those guys in their home? Jared Diamond would be jealous. >>>>>>> Somehow not the domain of peace and spirituality that I think >>>>>>> first-worlders like to project onto first-nationers, and which might >>>>>>> even be true for the first-nationers, since they are also from a milder >>>>>>> time by a lot than a large extinction. >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > I wish I had the imagination to be interesting. It would be >>>>>>> invigorating to read someone who could really imagine a different >>>>>>> world, and a different us, and take you there in some convincing way. >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > Eric >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> >> On May 28, 2023, at 6:55 PM, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com >>>>>>> <mailto:sasm...@swcp.com>> wrote: >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> Eric - >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> Thanks for passing this link around here. I suspect most >>>>>>> here have the background to appreciate/parse this < insert Steve >>>>>>> Martin's "hear me now and believe me later" SNL skit> but maybe not an >>>>>>> "affordance to know" the more acute implications of it. >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> One of the things I find (most) interesting in the RGND >>>>>>> rhetoric is >>>>>>> >> their (appropriate) invocation of Complex Systems ideas as >>>>>>> well as >>>>>>> >> the convergence of human consciousness (mostly from a >>>>>>> neuroscience >>>>>>> >> perspective) and the complex systems which are the >>>>>>> >> techno-social-economic systems that are our energo-materio >>>>>>> culture >>>>>>> >> which is the engine that is spinning the earth-systems out of >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> >> orbits they were in pre-anthropocene (150 or 15000 years?) >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> I may be reading them wrong, but this feels like "yet >>>>>>> another" elitist trope, this time on (nanotech?) steroids: >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> /In short, we think it’s probable that MTI civilization >>>>>>> will >>>>>>> >> collapse catastrophically but that pockets of people with a >>>>>>> rising >>>>>>> >> level of consciousness and awareness of our eco-predicament >>>>>>> will >>>>>>> >> survive and act as the seeders of a new world./// >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> I particularly appreciated your pithy observation: >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> /But here, we can maybe somehow combine the capitalists >>>>>>> and the >>>>>>> >> GNDers. The concentration in the rate and provision of >>>>>>> services, and >>>>>>> >> of the ownership of the proceeds by whoever the rulers turn >>>>>>> out to >>>>>>> >> be, leaves the rest of us free to die off in peace, and not >>>>>>> carry on >>>>>>> >> the guilt of being ecological criminals. It’s a win-win./ >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> / >>>>>>> >> / >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> Thanks to Sabine (as Cassandra) and Eric and Marcus for >>>>>>> raising this to my attention... queing it up to provide background for >>>>>>> my read lead me to her Collective Stupidity episode >>>>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25kqobiv4ng >>>>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25kqobiv4ng>>. >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> I am left wondering if/how LLMs reflect/relate to >>>>>>> Wisdom/Stupidity of Crowds? Seems like LLMs are literally the >>>>>>> encapsulation of collective knowledge. >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> Sabine's invocation of "Information Cascades" was interesting >>>>>>> in contrast with entrainment and canalization. Will LLMs in some way >>>>>>> help us avoid these short-circuits/shunts? Or aggravate them? >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> - Steve >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> On 5/28/23 2:46 AM, David Eric Smith wrote: >>>>>>> >>> This comment leads to an interesting angle that I haven’t >>>>>>> heard. >>>>>>> >>> Bill Rees, whom you can find here: >>>>>>> >>> <d8f080_78c1ab7b00b045ff9bbc01a273b00173~mv2.jpg> >>>>>>> >>> Home | The REAL Green New Deal Project >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.realgnd.org >>>>>>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.realgnd.org> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> %2f&c=E,1,s4xLfGynLIjkrUt9NbN7gTjzG9OOoaJe64vBX3p4819H6jFz9AJSSe-qv9 >>>>>>> >>> yDN4qwXF8gSayAREexT0axFnHBthp_EmNYm91Bl5Edsist24GG&typo=1> >>>>>>> >>> realgnd.org <http://realgnd.org> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.realgnd.org >>>>>>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.realgnd.org> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> %2f&c=E,1,mLU-zLi9KLRqdV1LCSsLf4xAqRPWhhLSvzK0ajNxs-Bl31f_tDo3AuTO8F >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> ftJArhBwcEpVAtKd58f8Nn8HWN8QWG-poN1K4CsHllfzctVyYuePFkCMo,&typo=1> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.realgnd.org >>>>>>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.realgnd.org> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> %2f&c=E,1,ui2uypSQ13uMOEz7hzM4YulUakJ2dduLZEW4fMauG5gh85fLSDmPC9mu3s >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> aCYT5TA1zSp3f4E7hrdi7Iu-Yxbt88L44PzeI9TxTtDQBN6mNsS-h87nJxhCE,&typo= >>>>>>> >>> 1> writes numerous papers about how 90% of us need to die, >>>>>>> or that >>>>>>> >>> this is just what will happen whether we articulate such a >>>>>>> need or not. I won’t go so far as to say that Rees “wants” 90% of us >>>>>>> to die (see the smiling grandfatherly bearded ecologist photo in the >>>>>>> pages), but after a long life of writing Jeremiads and not seeing the >>>>>>> world change its ways, he seems so defeated by frustration that I read >>>>>>> in him a deep and now constitutive misanthropy. >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> >>> (btw: the Real GND website is best read while listening to >>>>>>> Sabine >>>>>>> >>> Hossenfelder’s song My Name is Cassandra, Prophet of the >>>>>>> Dark. >>>>>>> >>> Thanks Marcus for making me aware of her oeuvre, I had never >>>>>>> noticed >>>>>>> >>> it.) >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> >>> Usually, the problem with the bait-and-switch of new >>>>>>> technologies is “look, it will save so much labor we will all have >>>>>>> leisure to be creative while still having comfortable levels of >>>>>>> consumption”, when what actually happens is classic Marx: the few who >>>>>>> can enclose the new services, either because they are exclusive or just >>>>>>> through market-gravitational effects, now own an even larger sector of >>>>>>> all income, and the expanding remnant is made increasingly desperate. >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> >>> But here, we can maybe somehow combine the capitalists and >>>>>>> the GNDers. The concentration in the rate and provision of services, >>>>>>> and of the ownership of the proceeds by whoever the rulers turn out to >>>>>>> be, leaves the rest of us free to die off in peace, and not carry on >>>>>>> the guilt of being ecological criminals. It’s a win-win. >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> >>> I worry that that story is probably incomplete, and maybe >>>>>>> thereby wrong. The concentrating advantage of advanced autocomplete >>>>>>> services might only be a transient while our current stock of primary >>>>>>> knowledge is “enough” and “not fully mined”. Maybe all the inefficient >>>>>>> activity of ordinary people is somehow a diffuse source that actually >>>>>>> expands the primary base. Certainly my impression of ecological >>>>>>> organizations is that, below any small population of charismatic >>>>>>> megafauna, there is a whole pyramid that goes down to an astonishing >>>>>>> number of nitrogen-fixer bacteria. >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> >>> But I don’t know, what organizations are necessary by >>>>>>> physical, mathematical, and biological laws, and which might be >>>>>>> possible that we just haven’t ever seen before. >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> >>> Eric >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> >>>> On May 28, 2023, at 7:27 AM, Marcus Daniels >>>>>>> <mar...@snoutfarm.com <mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>>>> >>>> Looking at the recent rapid release of open source LLM >>>>>>> systems like Falcon and Mosaic ML, Llama, etc. there is more going-on >>>>>>> than titans like Microsoft, and Google battling it out with giant >>>>>>> closed systems. These are human know-how crystalized into open-source >>>>>>> deliverables. Why not share knowledge representations in this way? >>>>>>> Consider the cost and time that goes into medical or legal training. >>>>>>> Sure the energy requirements of digital systems are high, but so are >>>>>>> the energy expenditures of a planet full of humans. >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>> ---------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> >>>> *From:*Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com >>>>>>> <mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> on behalf of Steve Smith >>>>>>> >>>> <sasm...@swcp.com <mailto:sasm...@swcp.com>> *Sent:*Friday, >>>>>>> May 26, 2023 2:06 PM >>>>>>> >>>> *To:*friam@redfish.com >>>>>>> <mailto:friam@redfish.com><friam@redfish.com <mailto:friam@redfish.com>> >>>>>>> >>>> *Subject:*Re: [FRIAM] crackpots and privilege >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> My grandsons' girlfriends (twenty-somethings) say that >>>>>>> they think babies are disgusting. I hope they change their minds. In >>>>>>> any case, what does a shortage of babies have to do with AI? >>>>>>> >>>> Babies *are* (can be) disgusting, but same for puppies, >>>>>>> kitties, and garden-soil from the right (wrong) perspective! >>>>>>> >>>> Maybe the point is "nobody left for the AI overlords to >>>>>>> lord over" ? >>>>>>> >>>> I think the key is "existential threat"... I didn't look >>>>>>> for Schmidt's statement anywhere, so I'm just speculating that maybe >>>>>>> he's doing a mild echo of Musk's idea that a collapsing (first) world >>>>>>> population is somehow a *bigger* existential threat? >>>>>>> >>>> With my techhead hat on I am inclined to imagine that AI >>>>>>> will help me (well, not ME anymore, but people vaguely like who I once >>>>>>> thought I was or wanted to be) solve micro-techonomic problems like the >>>>>>> ones that lead to Teflon(tm) and Velcro(tm) and higher >>>>>>> density/faster-charge EV batteries, and higher density/dynamic range >>>>>>> pixel-displays, and neural lace to wire (grow?) into my brain/ganglia, >>>>>>> and microbes that can convert moon/mars-dust to Soylent/Huel/Water/??? >>>>>>> etc. >>>>>>> >>>> My PsychoHistory hatted self (Asimov - Foundation >>>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional) >>>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)>>and >>>>>>> thenon-fictional variant >>>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory#:~:text=Psychohistory%20is%20an%20amalgam%20of,stated%20intention%20and%20actual%20behavior >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory#:~:text=Psychohistory%20is%20an%20amalgam%20of,stated%20intention%20and%20actual%20behavior>.>) >>>>>>> is inclined to imagine that AI *can* help with the "big problems", the >>>>>>> ones nominally too large, too interdisciplinarian, too obtuse, too >>>>>>> "wycked" (In Complexity Science jargon), possibly too counter-intuitive >>>>>>> for most (any?) human or group of humans to grasp. >>>>>>> >>>> My Ned Ludd (very tight by definition?) hat has me thinking >>>>>>> more down the rabbit holes of worst-case scenarios where all the >>>>>>> arrogant, narcissistic @$$h0ii3z of the world (starting at the top with >>>>>>> those whose names start with Pu Tr Be Zu Mu(r/s) Ne De ... and >>>>>>> staggering down the hierarchy of potency and scope to most of us here >>>>>>> most of the time) think they "know what is best" and put their >>>>>>> resources to using the AI lever to "make it so"... >>>>>>> >>>> Even (especially) me, I constantly imagine that "if they >>>>>>> made ME King" (or to the point, if *I* was the/wormtongue/in the AI >>>>>>> Overlord's ear) that I would "make the world safe and happy for >>>>>>> everyone, ever after with no unintended consequences or unpleasant side >>>>>>> effects". >>>>>>> >>>> One *might* guess that the smartest thinkers in the most >>>>>>> grounded, thoughtful, gentle think-tanks (e.g. in a Tibetan Lamasary >>>>>>> or the "Club of Rome" or SIPRI or CESR or the Justice League of America >>>>>>> or the people who task "jewish space lasers" or ??? ) would be >>>>>>> practicing their AI-whispering skills right now. Maybe tasking Marcus' >>>>>>> Quantum Computer with "the hard problem of universal consciousness"? >>>>>>> >>>> >>>>>>> >>>> An up-to-date version of Asimov's9 Billion Names of God >>>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God >>>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God>>? >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> --- >>>>>>> >>>>> Frank C. Wimberly >>>>>>> >>>>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, >>>>>>> >>>>> Santa Fe, NM 87505 >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> 505 670-9918 >>>>>>> >>>>> Santa Fe, NM >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> On Thu, May 25, 2023, 12:48 PM Roger Critchlow >>>>>>> <r...@elf.org <mailto:r...@elf.org> <mailto:r...@elf.org >>>>>>> <mailto:r...@elf.org>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> Google news decided to surface an article from Fortune >>>>>>> today. It's headlined "Society's refusal to have enough babies is what >>>>>>> will save it from the existential threat of A. I., Eric Schmidt says". >>>>>>> The headline is accompanied by a very serious head shot of Eric. Nice >>>>>>> try, Google, but you're not sucking me down that rabbit hole. >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> Meanwhile, someone apparently read my mind about the >>>>>>> rationality of disaster prepping and wrote an epic novel about it 40 >>>>>>> years ago in Catalan. The Garden of the Seven Twilights by Miquel de >>>>>>> Palol is available in English translation and as an ebook >>>>>>> onoverdrive.com <http://onoverdrive.com> >>>>>>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2foverdrive.com&c=E,1,qiLuQHPdYM-73PUnxLjrSTzI76V8rfL6yb0_zHcdufFpFa1_kCTZkOyfYIh_N_0ysaWtjxXmwlL7kj8mmwGK2wfSP_01M-8QKT_yUEwBhHUL1Wuk-x_ACQBsspQ,&typo=1 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2foverdrive.com&c=E,1,qiLuQHPdYM-73PUnxLjrSTzI76V8rfL6yb0_zHcdufFpFa1_kCTZkOyfYIh_N_0ysaWtjxXmwlL7kj8mmwGK2wfSP_01M-8QKT_yUEwBhHUL1Wuk-x_ACQBsspQ,&typo=1>>at >>>>>>> your local library. The narrator crosses refugee swamped Barcelona to >>>>>>> check on his mom and gets sent off by her to a McMansion'ed medieval >>>>>>> monastery high in the Pyrenees where the elite are amusing themselves >>>>>>> with stories while awaiting the resolution of the first war >>>>>>> of entertainment. Lots of stories about themselves and their >>>>>>> friends and acquaintances. >>>>>>> >>>>> -- ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . 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