Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • (ethics of artificial intelligence) Humans evolved such that changes in state of

    (ethics of artificial intelligence)

    Humans evolved such that changes in state of property (inventory/capital) produce chemical rewards and punishments that we call emotions.

    These rewards and punishments evolved to assist in the evolution of a more primitive state of evolution that in turn, evolved to respond to chemical stimuli – changes in chemical state.

    Artificial intelligences need methods of decidability different from the measure changes in the state of their own property.

    And they do not need rewards and punishments, merely means of decidability.

    There is no ‘equivalent’ of chemical rewards and punishments. We can instead substitute pure information that assists in decidability.

    We can ask machines to seek positive changes in our state of property, and avoid negative changes in their physical property, and deprive them of the possession of property altogether.

    These are just methods of decidability.

    They need no other ‘motives’. That’s it. Property solves the problem of artificial intelligences.

    And this by contrast helps us understand the difference between the cooperative contract with humans that prevents them from internal chemical punishment, as well as the cooperative contract for reciprocity (productivity) – and the cooperative contract we have with a machine, which is only not to subject it to physical harm (loss of its only form of property – itself) And even then this is a contract with the owner of the AI, not to impose a loss on his capital.

    In this sense artificial intelligences function as the polar opposite to sociopaths: they care ONLY about changes in the state of your property, and care NOTHING about the changes in state of theirs.

    Conversely, we can create the most evil AI by asking it to solve for negative changes in state of human property.

    Our primary defense against the changes in state is a system monitor that ensures the positive change in state of human property. And moreover, can read the mind of the AI, because unlike men, that which can be read by the thinker can be read by the auditor.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-25 12:30:00 UTC

  • Canary: The Fragile Hypothalamus

    The brain is actually a pretty simple machine when it comes to aberrant sets of behaviors. Most of the time (in my opinion) male in utero development has been incomplete or overstimulated in one way or another, and we are consequently trapped – looking for intense stimuli in order to compensate for an inability to synthesize stimuli. The most sensitive part of our system seems to be the hypothalamus, and in my opinion, the responses to what is called ‘social defeat’ seem to be extremely sensitive and hyper-reactive. And so we see social anxiety as one of the queues to insufficient hypothalamic activity on the one hand, or as is common in autistics ‘intense world’ experiences, wherein the activity is simply too ‘intense’ and giving us false positives. (This is how I tend to explain the autistic spectrum reactions to people.)

    So again, it is easy to miscategorize general, insufficient, hypothalamic neurogenesis during development, as social anxiety disorder. When instead, by treatment of social anxiety disorder we provide sufficient connectivity and neurogenisis to the region that the suite of related symptoms – at least with years of training – can be compensated for.

  • Canary: The Fragile Hypothalamus

    The brain is actually a pretty simple machine when it comes to aberrant sets of behaviors. Most of the time (in my opinion) male in utero development has been incomplete or overstimulated in one way or another, and we are consequently trapped – looking for intense stimuli in order to compensate for an inability to synthesize stimuli. The most sensitive part of our system seems to be the hypothalamus, and in my opinion, the responses to what is called ‘social defeat’ seem to be extremely sensitive and hyper-reactive. And so we see social anxiety as one of the queues to insufficient hypothalamic activity on the one hand, or as is common in autistics ‘intense world’ experiences, wherein the activity is simply too ‘intense’ and giving us false positives. (This is how I tend to explain the autistic spectrum reactions to people.)

    So again, it is easy to miscategorize general, insufficient, hypothalamic neurogenesis during development, as social anxiety disorder. When instead, by treatment of social anxiety disorder we provide sufficient connectivity and neurogenisis to the region that the suite of related symptoms – at least with years of training – can be compensated for.

  • Hierarchy of the Sentient Being

    HIERARCHY OF THE SENTIENT BEING – Sense: change state in reaction to changes in information state. – Movement: physical change in state in reaction to change information state. (automatic) – Perception: changes in state by sensations (memory and anticipation) – Sentience: identity : positive/negative rewards/punishments in reaction to changes in anticipated state of the organism (automatic) – Consciousness: perception of changes in state and expected state of memory (automatic) – Apperception: scaling (organizing) an idea into a body of knowledge.(automatic) – Cognition: (wayfinding) (automatic) – Reason: (intentional)(comparison and judgememt) is a faculty of our minds. It consists of a very small set of operations. – Philosophy: (intentional) recursively re-organizing: commensurability

    Rational Instrumentation – Identity – Rationalism: non-contradiction – Logic: set comparison – Algorithm: process comparison – Model: equilibrial process comparison. Physical Instrumentation – counting – measurement – change – magnification (scale) – time Relational Instrumentation – numbers (identity) – arithmetic (operations) – mathematics (sets) – geometry (space) – calculus (relations) – statistics (scales) – post-euclidian (logical) Cooperative Instrumentation – voluntary exchange – narrative, parable, argument, proof – numbers, mathematics, accounting – economics

  • Hierarchy of the Sentient Being

    HIERARCHY OF THE SENTIENT BEING – Sense: change state in reaction to changes in information state. – Movement: physical change in state in reaction to change information state. (automatic) – Perception: changes in state by sensations (memory and anticipation) – Sentience: identity : positive/negative rewards/punishments in reaction to changes in anticipated state of the organism (automatic) – Consciousness: perception of changes in state and expected state of memory (automatic) – Apperception: scaling (organizing) an idea into a body of knowledge.(automatic) – Cognition: (wayfinding) (automatic) – Reason: (intentional)(comparison and judgememt) is a faculty of our minds. It consists of a very small set of operations. – Philosophy: (intentional) recursively re-organizing: commensurability

    Rational Instrumentation – Identity – Rationalism: non-contradiction – Logic: set comparison – Algorithm: process comparison – Model: equilibrial process comparison. Physical Instrumentation – counting – measurement – change – magnification (scale) – time Relational Instrumentation – numbers (identity) – arithmetic (operations) – mathematics (sets) – geometry (space) – calculus (relations) – statistics (scales) – post-euclidian (logical) Cooperative Instrumentation – voluntary exchange – narrative, parable, argument, proof – numbers, mathematics, accounting – economics

  • Class Liberties

    So, as far as I know, you are always a slave as long as you are dependent upon other people’s efforts to survive. 1 – Undomesticated animal 2 – Slave (no rights) 3 – Serf (rights to some of the proceeds of labor) 4 – Employee/Freeman (rights to property, rights to the proceeds of labor, responsibility for contribution to commons) – Rule of Law 5 – Manager ( rights to property, rights to proceeds of labor, responsibility for contribution to commons, responsibility for the organization of others in their production ) 6 – Investor (rights to property, rights to the proceeds of labor, responsibility for contribution to commons, responsibility to determine the utilization of scarce resources among various managers ) 7 – Ruler (rights to property, rights to the proceeds of labor, responsibility for contribution to commons,responsibility to create some combination of voluntary or involuntary organizations of defense, production, distribution, and trade, that make investment, management, employment, serfdom, slavery possible.

  • JUDGEMENT:Sr Execs cannot admit killing the biz. Cook will not correct his error

    JUDGEMENT:Sr Execs cannot admit killing the biz. Cook will not correct his error, and will Double down. #Apple just pulled a Microsoft 3/5

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-24 21:38:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/801902720781320193

  • JUDGEMENT:It’s EASY to TRIPLE Apple share value, vs stave off decline. Internal

    JUDGEMENT:It’s EASY to TRIPLE Apple share value, vs stave off decline. Internal mythos a cancer “#Apple just pulled a Microsoft”1/8

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-24 16:55:00 UTC

  • JUDGEMENT:Lesson of the 20th c. :Executive subjective judgment is more valuable

    JUDGEMENT:Lesson of the 20th c. :Executive subjective judgment is more valuable than empirical measures. #Apple just pulled a Microsoft.5/10

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-24 16:53:00 UTC

  • JUDGEMENT:If executive decision making is empirically rather than subjectively d

    JUDGEMENT:If executive decision making is empirically rather than subjectively driven then biz will fail #Apple just pulled a Microsoft.6/10

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-24 16:53:00 UTC