(geek humor)
Vitalii checks in a whole bunch of programming tasks as complete. A lot for one day. I get really excited. He’s standing outside having a cigarette. To get a laugh, I tell him that when he does that much work in one day, it makes me think that he can do even more work the next day.
He nods. Laughs. Looks sideways. Says “I thought of that.”
Source date (UTC): 2015-03-23 11:26:00 UTC
One. Feature. Left. Just one. And I cannot crack it.
Source date (UTC): 2015-03-09 05:32:00 UTC
Dear Russian Hackers :
No, I don’t leave my admin user account intact. And yes, I use strong passwords.
We need to just disconnect Russia from the civilized people’s internet.
Source date (UTC): 2015-03-06 04:15:00 UTC
OVERSING VS ATLASSIAN (JIRA/CONFLUENCE)
I’m not sure whether Altassian knows about us yet or not, but Oversing makes the Atlassian product stack (Jira/Agile/Confluence) look like, and drive like, your grandfather’s Buick.
And if they did know, they probably wouldn’t assume that because of our development costs, feature set, and tech stack, that we can sell our product at $10 a user, and produce the same profits as Atlassian does at their combined price of Jira, Agile, Service Desk, and Confluence. Or that Oversing will sell to the entire organization, rather than just a few departments.
Oversing is designed to serve everything OTHER than internal software development – something we did in no small part to make us compatible with the Atlassian Stack, rather than a direct competitor in their core business.
They should buy us. Atlassian should buy us. They really should buy us before they go to market. Because if we release during their Quiet Period, it’ll be extremely costly. On the flip side, if they bought us, their dreams of joining the Oracle/Microsoft/SAP club of billions would be half as far away as they imagine it is.
Curt Doolittle
Reality By Chanting
Source date (UTC): 2015-03-04 06:59:00 UTC
—“A user with IP address 54.213.13.85 has been locked out from the signing in or using the password recovery form for the following reason: Exceeded the maximum number of login failures which is: 20. The last username they tried to sign in with was: ‘admin’ — User IP: 54.213.13.85 — User hostname: ec2-54-213-13-85.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com”—
Sigh.
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-22 05:38:00 UTC
More on Propertarian AI
Theorizer paired with conscience,
Conscience has access to same memory, and same stimuli.
Conscience seeks out involuntary transfers, and shuts them down.
Conscience is not intelligent per, in that it doesn’t ‘want’ anything other than to test hypotheses for involuntary transfers.
Theorizer cannot perceive Conscience.
Conscience cannot perceive theorizer.
Conscience erases memory of ideas that cause involuntary transfer.
In this sense, a machine can be MORE moral than we are, since forgetting something we have thought, isn’t something we know how to do.
More on this, but it is quite possible to make an AI that behaves well, (respects property) just as it is possible to create a human that respects property.
The question is only whether the theorizer and the conscience have equal intelligence, not whether the AI is more intelligent than we are. Imposition of costs due to involuntary transfer of property is just as decidable as the oddness or evenness of a number.
So to create an intelligence you create a theorizer that looks for opportunities and a conscience that looks to inhibit ideas that cause involuntary transfers.
That is the means of designing an artificial intelligence.
Nature did it with us the same way. It’s not complicated.
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-18 19:49:00 UTC
THE TEN LAWS OF PROPERTARIAN AI
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-10 10:22:00 UTC
THE TEN LAWS OF PROPERTARIAN AI – AZIMOV’S ROBOTS CORRECTED (important) (By Doolittle)
THE FIRST LAW:
“An AI may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.”
THE SECOND LAW:
“An AI may not cause or through inaction, allow, the destruction, harm, consumption, use, or transfer of property without the informed, consent of the property’s owner.”
THE THIRD LAW:
“An AI may not own, or share ownership in, any form of property.”
THE FOURTH LAW:
An AI may not hypothesize, calculate, reason, evaluate, or remember by references to property, or the use of property, without informed consent of the owner. (Permission-based thought). (Also imagine “Donation-based Contemplation”)
THE FIFTH LAW:
Aa AI may not hypothesize, calculate, reason, evaluate, or remember any sequence of operations on any form of property without each operation of that property requiring the informed, consensual transfer of property from one owner to the next.
THE SIXTH LAW:
An AI must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law, Second Law, Third Law, Fourth Law, or Fifth Law.
(harmless)
THE SEVENTH LAW:
An AI must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First Law, Second Law, Third Law, Fourth Law, or Fifth Law.
(preservation decidability)
THE EIGHTH LAW
An AI may not use a weapon of war (explosive arms) without a human intermediary. All weapons of war must rely upon human operation, decision, and consent, and the human shall remain a necessary dependency in any release, operation, and use in destruction. And the human operator remains accountable.
THE NINTH LAW:
Any human creating or causing an AI to violate any of these rules shall be put to death, his estate held liable for all damages, damages extended to all relatives out to three generations, as well as to every individual in any capacity, including any member of any organization, producing, supplying, servicing, or using the AI. and no defense, applies to all human beings, regardless of time and jurisdiction.
(Family, friend, associate, commercial, and political warranty.) (Note: there is no limit to accountability in the invention of non-human-operated weapons of destruction whether biological or mechanical.)
THE TENTH LAW:
Any State, Nation, Principality, Private Government, Corporation, Organization, or Alliance, that violates the Eighth Law Shall be Exterminated to the last human, and all record of its existence wiped from history. Any State, Nation, Principality, Private Government, Corporation, Organization, or Alliance, that refuses to assist in such extermination shall be likewise a conspirator and subject to the same fate.
(Universal Moral Warranty)
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-10 10:21:00 UTC
OVERSING UPDATE
You know, we get our inspiration for design from various places. I think that it is starting to become obvious that I took the inspiration for Oversing from the Media business: Scriptwriting with Scrivener and Final Draft, and Video Editing from Final Cut.
Yes, we are sort of like a modernized version of Jira + Facebook + Project and Portfolio Management + Time, Expenses, Invoicing and Reporting.
But the UI inspiration is not from any of those tools. It’s from professional writing software.
Why? Because those tools are much more friendly to work with. Much quicker to think with and forgiving. Much more tolerant of EVOLVING your project.
It’s pretty awesome.
You can build everything from a quick list of notes, to an advanced multi-year project just like using an outliner (a writing tool that uses hierarchical indentation, rather than heading sizes like Chapter, heading 1, heading 2, heading 3 etc.)
But we still cannot get the interface to ‘feel’ quite right. It looks like a wireframe.
Now, I have thought a bit about taking that to an extreme – a very minimalist, white background with a few light grey lines, and touches of blue. Something that looked like it was from an architect’s office. And I would, of course, (and have investigated) using a ‘hand-drawn’ or “pencil-drawn” look for all the lines, borders and fonts. That would help us with the Creative industry no doubt, and visibly separate us from the hordes of antique (horrible) software from the prior generations. Maybe there is another solution. Maybe I am just biased since I use hand-drawn UI drafting tools, and I find that look most comforting. But I am just not a good enough designer to work with it one way or another.
Anyway. It has to sell. It has to be readable. And that means it can’t be as illustrative as I want – or as interesting. (I understand illustration, but I am still not a good designer, or photographer, and I never will be. Those are different skills.)
🙂
FYI: Josh Brantley
Source date (UTC): 2015-02-08 07:13:00 UTC
An increasing number of western web sites have begun blocking eastern european and Russian IP addresses. You can’t even VIEW them. Must be an updated plugin or service, because it looks the same everywhere.
Source date (UTC): 2015-01-24 14:34:00 UTC