Curt Doolittle

Category: Evolutionary Computation and Systems

  • “As @Moritz has pointed out, via Joscha Bach (@plinz) and Michael Levin (@drmich

    –“As @Moritz has pointed out, via Joscha Bach (@plinz) and Michael Levin (@drmichaellevin), the software runs on imperfect hardware, but at large scales the imperfections average out and you just have the actors collectively running an OS, one that was gene-hardware wired into them to run and culture-wetware encouraged while they were young.
    The hardware self-modifies based on how much agency and load each component can gain and bear (distributed) – which is different from solid-state computers where the hardware stays fixed.
    So we don’t have to average out the result of a silicon computation, but statistics shows the averaging out of how biological populations compute.”– @MichaelSurrago

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-30 12:57:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1774058345936113664

  • “Distributed Evolutionary Computation (Assemblies): The advantage to this approa

    –“Distributed Evolutionary Computation (Assemblies): The advantage to this approach: the components(from molecules to the cell to the body, to groups) will gain/lose agency and persistence to varying degrees as the computation evolves complexity and cooperation. Such a structure keeps the potential for development of agency in the individual parts, rather than only reside in the software (culture).’– @MichaelSurrago and @WerrellBradley

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-30 12:51:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1774056882908385281

  • ETHNOCENTRISM IS THE OPTIMUM STRATEGY (I’ve referred to this article many times

    ETHNOCENTRISM IS THE OPTIMUM STRATEGY (I’ve referred to this article many times

    ETHNOCENTRISM IS THE OPTIMUM STRATEGY
    (I’ve referred to this article many times but repetition is worth it.)

    The Evolutionary Dominance of Ethnocentric Cooperation (2013)

    “From a random start, ethnocentric strategies dominate other possible strategies (selfish, traitorous, and… https://t.co/20lPAFBVgu

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-29 00:23:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1773506200488837481

  • ETHNOCENTRISM IS THE OPTIMUM STRATEGY (I’ve referred to this article many times

    ETHNOCENTRISM IS THE OPTIMUM STRATEGY
    (I’ve referred to this article many times but repetition is worth it.)

    The Evolutionary Dominance of Ethnocentric Cooperation (2013)

    “From a random start, ethnocentric strategies dominate other possible strategies (selfish, traitorous, and humanitarian) based on cooperation or non-cooperation with in-group and out-group agents. Here we show that ethnocentrism eventually overcomes its closest competitor, humanitarianism, by exploiting humanitarian cooperation across group boundaries as world population saturates.”

    “Selfish and traitorous strategies are self-limiting because such agents do not cooperate with agents sharing the same genes. Traitorous strategies fare even worse than selfish ones because traitors are exploited by ethnocentrics across group boundaries in the same manner as humanitarians are, via unreciprocated cooperation.”

    The published paper is paywalled but the preprint is accessible here: https://t.co/wDuCvZQr2r

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-29 00:23:22 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1773506200300130304

  • Thinking …. It’s only algorithmic during a bounded steady state (growth). And

    Thinking …. It’s only algorithmic during a bounded steady state (growth).
    And that steady state is largely an historical phenom.
    I’m not sure that’s going to continue going forward.
    It MIGHT. But the world’s capital structures are going through trauma not seen before and I am not certain about previous regularities.
    Anyway. Until about 2017 I could see the future pretty clearly and at present everything is taking longer than I thought OR adaptations are occurring faster than I thought so that momentum can’t build to produce the speed I expected.
    All of us that predicted a major shift around 2030 were right. I was on the early side as usual because I give too much credit to the people. Others were right in their anticipation of the slow movement of the overton window.

    Reply addressees: @sqpatrick77

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-25 18:45:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1772334125287923712

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1772331767753527403

  • (Today) 1. All algorithms narrow the range of possible results. 2. Material evol

    (Today)
    1. All algorithms narrow the range of possible results.
    2. Material evolution largely expands the range of possibilities.
    3. Genetic evolution largely limits the range of expansion.
    4. Neuronal evolution (economies) narrow the range but expand the depth.

    My point being that there is INFORMATION in the organization of the structure of compounding cooperation between cells that produces oddly adaptive and coherent results while allowing some variation that may lead to advantage or adaptation – or may fail.

    The question is, why don’t more embryos fail? Why is it that despite mutations, so many embryos succeed?

    The answer is that life can be understood at the lowest level as constructed of machines (molecules and proteins).

    But that the adaptive process is possible across the entire organism from the individual cell to the entirety of the body and mind.

    This information is far more complex than our original ‘mechanical’ understanding of genetics assumed.

    Everything adapts both outward and inward – until the demand for adaptation exceeds the limit of adaptability.

    Assemblies, cells, organs, systems, the collection of systems we call teh body, as well as the mind, form a vast cooperative and adaptive network.

    The question we have is, how is that information stored? Well, it’s stored as neurons store information: by stable relations.

    But that isn’t very satisfactory. And that’s the problem we (the sciences) are trying to solve.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-25 16:54:51 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1772306163222085632

  • RT @MattPirkowski: An archetypal example of Wolfram’s Class 4 CAs––i.e. systems

    RT @MattPirkowski: An archetypal example of Wolfram’s Class 4 CAs––i.e. systems that exhibit stable novelty on the boundary between chaos a…

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-22 18:33:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1771243828327968864

  • SOME FIRST PRINCIPLES Existence: Homogeneity Pressure “Spin” Polarization Recomb

    SOME FIRST PRINCIPLES
    Existence:
    Homogeneity
    Pressure
    “Spin”
    Polarization
    Recombination
    Ternary logic of Evolution
    Evolutionary computation by continuous recursive disambiguation of disorder into order (matter) or dissipation into disorder (space).

    Perception:
    All human sense and perception can be reduced to tests of consistency of subjectively testable relations.
    Humans can sense, perceive, and test only so many dimensions of relations: realism, naturalism, identity, consistency, correspondence, operational possibility, rational choice, reciprocity, completeness(limits, full accounting), warrantability, liability, testifiability.

    Description:
    All languages consist of references (terms) consisting of n-dimensions of measurement (natural order).
    All languages consist of paradigms limiting permissible dimensions of terms.
    All paradigms consists of rules of continuous recursive disambiguation of disorder (ambiguity) into identity (unambiguity) called grammars.
    Mathematics constitutes the most reductive language consisting only of an observer, references, relations, operations, and agreements (equalities,inequalities).
    All language can be constructed from observer, references (nouns, verbs), relations, agreements.
    Meaning origin, points, vectors, operations, equalites.
    Meaning the universe can be constructed in language from manifolds of n-dimensions.

    Operations:
    1. Verbal reducibility is unlimited.
    2. Computational reducibility is smaller than verbal reducibility.
    3. Mathematical reducibility is smaller than computational reducibility.
    4. First principles are irreducible.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-11 19:09:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1767266536081821696

  • SOME FIRST PRINCIPLES Existence: Homogeneity Pressure “Spin” Polarization Recomb

    SOME FIRST PRINCIPLES
    Existence:
    Homogeneity
    Pressure
    “Spin”
    Polarization
    Recombination
    Ternary logic of Evolution
    Evolutionary computation by continuous recursive disambiguation of disorder into order (matter) or dissipation into disorder (space).

    Perception:
    All human sense and perception can be reduced to testes of consistency of subjectively testable relations.
    Humans can sense, perceive, and test only so many dimensions of relations: realism, naturalism, identity, consistency, correspondence, operational possibility, rational choice, reciprocity, completeness(limits, full accounting), warrantability, liability, testifiability.

    Description:
    All languages consist of references (terms) consisting of n-dimensions of measurement (natural order).
    All languages consist of paradigms limiting permissible dimensions of terms.
    All paradigms consists of rules of continuous recursive disambiguation of disorder (ambiguity) into identity (unambiguity) called grammars.
    Mathematics constitutes the most reductive language consisting only of an observer, references, relations, operations, and agreements (equalities,inequalities).
    All language can be constructed from observer, references (nouns, verbs), relations, agreements.
    Meaning origin, points, vectors, operations, equalites.
    Meaning the universe can be constructed in language from manifolds of n-dimensions.

    Operations:
    1. Verbal reducibility is unlimited.
    2. Computational reducibility is smaller than verbal reducibility.
    3. Mathematical reducibility is smaller than computational reducibility.
    4. First principles are irreducible.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-11 19:09:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1767266234670645249

  • SOME FIRST PRINCIPLES Existence: Homogeneity Pressure “Spin” Polarization Ternar

    SOME FIRST PRINCIPLES
    Existence:
    Homogeneity
    Pressure
    “Spin”
    Polarization
    Ternary logic of Evolution
    Evolutionary computation by continuous recursive disambiguation of disorder into order (matter) or dissipation into disorder (space).

    Perception:
    All human sense and perception can be reduced to testes of consistency of subjectively testable relations.
    Humans can sense, perceive, and test only so many dimensions of relations: realism, naturalism, identity, consistency, correspondence, operational possibility, rational choice, reciprocity, completeness(limits, full accounting), warrantability, liability, testifiability.

    Description:
    All languages consist of references (terms) consisting of n-dimensions of measurement (natural order).
    All languages consist of paradigms limiting permissible dimensions of terms.
    All paradigms consists of rules of continuous recursive disambiguation of disorder (ambiguity) into identity (unambiguity) called grammars.
    Mathematics constitutes the most reductive language consisting only of an observer, references, relations, operations, and agreements (equalities,inequalities).
    All language can be constructed from observer, references (nouns, verbs), relations, agreements.
    Meaning origin, points, vectors, operations, equalites.
    Meaning the universe can be constructed in language from manifolds of n-dimensions.

    Operations:
    1. Verbal reducibility is unlimited.
    2. Computational reducibility is smaller than verbal reducibility.
    3. Mathematical reducibility is smaller than computational reducibility.
    4. First principles are irreducible.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-03-11 19:09:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1767263949106360320