Dec 28, 2019, 9:09 AM Consciousness is deterministic with scale, and biased by body form. Any being with sufficient neural capacity will develop similar intuitions and behaviors. Consciousness means modeling recursive future states by grammar of action. And we are programmed by action in reality. There is no mystery to consciousness. The nervous system is a lovely, profoundly simple thing, and there is trivial difference between a transistor and a soma, and the organization (adaptation) of the nervous system by dendritic wayfinding is indifferent from wiring circuit boards other than the infinite untraceable unmeasurable complexity of any given set of excitements. I am pretty confident of the structure of each major region of the brain and how it processes information, and there is no magic to recursive memory by thalamic preservation of state, and hippocampal production of indexes, and hippocampal rehearsal to store memories during break, rests, sleep. The experience of awareness is just a concert, like the experience of consciousness and it’s all just a constructed spectrum of preservation of networks. And anyone who has written an A* search for way-finding a maze can simply relabel variables and functions with brain regions and grasp the concept. Neural networks approximate that complexity, functions abstract that complexity, classes abstract that complexity further, but the underlying process is the same. Software must make address connections between simulated neurons and serially process calculations, while the brain only makes physical dendritic connections in infinite, inexhaustible, complexity and permutation. At present I dont know (maybe no one does) the provisioning of new episodic indices, and whether they are permanent or temporary. And the reason we can only produce robots at present is simply one of scale given the problem of serialization. I suspect we will solve that problem as evolution solved vision, which is to break the problem into pieces producing a symbolic input to a hierarchical system of prediction. I don’t see why we can’t do that other than the current cost would be ridiculous although it’s clear google is trying to use pre-processed information (search content) the way the financial business uses pre-processed information ( prices). I don’t know what they’re doing but as far as I know, it requires the development of symmetries (think, metaphysics) and a grammar (think thought, emotion, action) and a vocabulary to do that for the same reason humans needed language to think more deeply (system of measurement). Right now all I see is categorization (identification), and prediction and I don’t see anyone producing a metaphysics, grammar, and vocabulary bounded by similar rules to language, which will be necessary for machines to communicate because shared hierarchical memory would be slow (other than for the predator-prey division of labor), and protocols (languages) are necessary to encapsulate patterns such that access to (chaotic) underlying memory structures (neural networks and the training that got them to a given state) is unnecessary.
Theme: Agency
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In Everything
In Everything. https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/27/in-everything/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-27 00:56:12 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265446672685039621
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In Everything.
Jan 2, 2020, 12:56 PM
Some of us think of minimizing risk and living a long time. Some of us think about of a mark on history, and having a good death. Another example of Feminine Consumption vs Masculine Production in everything.
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In Everything.
Jan 2, 2020, 12:56 PM
Some of us think of minimizing risk and living a long time. Some of us think about of a mark on history, and having a good death. Another example of Feminine Consumption vs Masculine Production in everything.
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When All Other Knowledge, Reason, and Experience Fails, We Are Left with Intuiti
When All Other Knowledge, Reason, and Experience Fails, We Are Left with Intuition – Bias. https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/27/when-all-other-knowledge-reason-and-experience-fails-we-are-left-with-intuition-bias/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-27 00:54:07 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265446148627726337
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When All Other Knowledge, Reason, and Experience Fails, We Are Left with Intuition – Bias.
Jan 2, 2020, 6:36 PM We do not dispute the obvious, only the intuitive. Men and women do not differ in task performance: the concrete – at least over time, but we differ in bias: the intuitionistic – at least in the immediate. When all other knowledge, reason, and experience fails, we are left with intuition, and the female herd empathic-interpersonal consumptive dysgenic of numbers will compete with the male analytic-political pack productive eugenic of quality for the simple reason that these are our reproductive strategies. Even as such, they are useful like most generalizations at scale, when we are discussing aggregates and biases, since men and women each contain a portfolio of traits and various masculine to feminine biases. This axis (protecting children regardless of males who are in charge versus protecting assets including territory, resources, women, children from other men who would deprive us of them) is pervasive and when a bias is evident and it is counter-rational, it is this bias driving it.
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When All Other Knowledge, Reason, and Experience Fails, We Are Left with Intuition – Bias.
Jan 2, 2020, 6:36 PM We do not dispute the obvious, only the intuitive. Men and women do not differ in task performance: the concrete – at least over time, but we differ in bias: the intuitionistic – at least in the immediate. When all other knowledge, reason, and experience fails, we are left with intuition, and the female herd empathic-interpersonal consumptive dysgenic of numbers will compete with the male analytic-political pack productive eugenic of quality for the simple reason that these are our reproductive strategies. Even as such, they are useful like most generalizations at scale, when we are discussing aggregates and biases, since men and women each contain a portfolio of traits and various masculine to feminine biases. This axis (protecting children regardless of males who are in charge versus protecting assets including territory, resources, women, children from other men who would deprive us of them) is pervasive and when a bias is evident and it is counter-rational, it is this bias driving it.
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Male and Female
Jan 2, 2020, 7:13 PM We have the same reaction to insult and rejection, but it doesn’t interfere with our thinking. Conversely, once females hit puberty and their nervous systems evolve to encompass children (or others or abstractions in the absence of children) it affects women’s thinking. We divide the labor of everything, including the short term (women and the vulnerable) and the long term (men and the tribe).
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Male and Female
Jan 2, 2020, 7:13 PM We have the same reaction to insult and rejection, but it doesn’t interfere with our thinking. Conversely, once females hit puberty and their nervous systems evolve to encompass children (or others or abstractions in the absence of children) it affects women’s thinking. We divide the labor of everything, including the short term (women and the vulnerable) and the long term (men and the tribe).
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Rates of Reproduction
Jan 4, 2020, 11:17 AM
- Family members in USA and Canada. from 1500’s onward.
- Common eight, ten, twelve children. Almost universal.
- Common to lose a wife in childbirth and have two.
- Birthrate Lasts through civil war, industrial revolution. Then drops to six then to four, then three, now to two or even one.
- Almost universally husband and wife 5 years apart.
- Very common for english protestant men to marry french protestant then french catholic women. (disagreeableness an obedience)
- But very class driven.
- Both sides of family start out military. Paternal stays military. As usual, middle ranks.
- Prosecution of French proceeded that of Irish.
- English tended to be more middle class, french more lower classes.
- Both sides of the family originate in normandy, Dolietta’s going to England with the norman conquest, but then to the states, and the french left to Newfoundland, New Brunswick, or the Quebec settlements on the St Laurence river. After the french lose, 1M french move to the states.
- Poor French women were ‘russian brides’ of New France (Quebec). I only see one or two of those. All colonies were private entrepreneurial ventures, not state funded until they became strategic. Families were recruited. Men recruited, and when necessary, women (wives) recruited. The farther north the more likely they were to return to europe upon fulfillment of their contract. This is important since we don’t think of mothering and running a household as a career, but a woman’s choice was to be some other house-owning woman’s servant, or to get her own house, and so it was almost always preferable to have your own house, husband, and children to assist in the labor of running a household and farm.
- My family’s ‘legendary’ prosecution of the catholics in every way possible is somewhat funny since a lot of the maternal line is french, and a lot of it is clearly catholic, and at least one of my maternal great-x grandmothers was prohibited from practice of her religion upon marriage.
- No ‘irish’ until my paternal grandmother’s era, but they were pre-famine colonists, all from the east of Ireland, and it was three or four generations after integration.
- The men in my family are all over the middle class – probably because they’ve been literate since at least the 900s – military, reverends, lawyers, craftsmen, businessmen, fewer “ordinary” farmers, but even artists. The english tradition was farming in farm season and craftsmanship in off season, and warfare during the warring (high testosterone) summer months.
- All new englanders are inbred. Seriously. Until the Irish and Italians everyone was somehow related. 😉
- I love my NE people. they’re political ass clowns. But I love them anyway. And they make good business people and soldiers. They just need a monarchy to keep from virtue signaling themselves to death.