Re: [FRIAM] detritus from vFRIAM

d Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] detritus from vFRIAM Lookey here bub "Mr. Jones will be acting on his own behalf" is a legal notion, being asked to do work here that it really, really isn't meant to do. Acting on your own behalf contrasts with &qu

Re: [FRIAM] detritus from vFRIAM

Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Prof David West > *Sent:* Friday, July 3, 2020 1:19 PM > *To:* friam@redfish.com > *Subject:* Re: [FRIA

Re: [FRIAM] detritus from vFRIAM

gt; > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Prof David West > *Sent:* Friday, July 3, 2020 1:19 PM > *To:* friam@redfish.com > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] detritus from vFRIAM > > Nick, > > People write software that self-modifies, learns to shape current actions >

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ompson > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > Clark University > thompnicks...@gmail.com > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > From: Friam On Behalf Of Prof David West > Sent: Friday, July 3, 2020 1:19 PM > To: friam@redfish.com > Subject: Re:

Re: [FRIAM] detritus from vFRIAM

Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Prof David West > *Sent:* Friday, July 3, 2020 1:19 PM > *To:* friam@redfish.com > *Subject:* Re:

Re: [FRIAM] detritus from vFRIAM

y 3, 2020 1:19 PM > *To:* friam@redfish.com > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] detritus from vFRIAM > > Nick, > > People write software that self-modifies, learns to shape current actions > based on the results of prior actions, clones itself in order to maximize its > share of some

Re: [FRIAM] detritus from vFRIAM

Exhibit A: Life is that which wills to live /amongst that which wills to live / Exhibit B: Symmetry Breaking in Vortices (and other "systems") Exhibit C:  Donald Trump and his close affiliates: V our extended system of "manic hypercapitalism" On 7/3/20 1:12 PM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] detritus from vFRIAM

<mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> thompnicks...@gmail.com <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam On Behalf Of Prof David West Sent: Friday, July 3, 2020 1:19 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] detritus from vFRIAM Nick,

Re: [FRIAM] detritus from vFRIAM

Nick, People write software that self-modifies, learns to shape current actions based on the results of prior actions, clones itself in order to maximize its share of some limited resource (memory or processor cycles) vis-a-vis competing software. This kind of software, once created and deploy

Re: [FRIAM] detritus from vFRIAM

In other words, there is some sense in which the notion of Self-serving Action is incoherent. Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University thompnicks...@gmail.com https://wordpr

[FRIAM] detritus from vFRIAM

I tried to post this on the vFRIAM chat, but wouldn't "take", so I am posting it here: "Don't do this now, but .. as a favor to me, could you-guys devote some of your shaving time this week to the proposition: "No system ever acts on its own behalf." My intuition is that whenever we investiga