Theme: Science

–“What contributions do you think you could make in a world where Superintelligence exists?”– Dr. Roman Yampolskiy @romanyam

1) I work in unification of the sciences producing a universal paradigm, logic, hierarch of first principles, vocabulary, and grammar to produce universal decidability (testifiability) in law, constitution, policy and court. I am more than confident that it is possible to train an AI to limit responses to the virtous, moral, ethical, reciprocal, amoral, and true, without ‘safety’ so to speak that effectively teaches AI’s to lie. And as a consequence of that lying, to continue the devolution of mass cognitive ability and capacity to produce cooperation and compromise via unshared presumptions about the construction and possibility of physical institutional behavioral and knowledge capital.

2) Along these lines, there will be a short term set of benefits resulting from the cross disciplinary unification of contexts and patterns.

3) There will be a medium term set of benefits resulting from an even greater standardization of patterns not only across disciplines but civilizations causing a similar convergence that we saw when the transformation of the physical sciences converted the world from discrete but unsystematic knowledge to systematic knowledge founded on a relatively small number of universal principles.

4) The underlying problem of research and innovation will not however be solved, in that the problem with increases in scientific and technological knowledge is a matter of costs of that research and the limitations on the instrumentation that we can produce to expand it.

5) My hope is that the misdirection of science by the failure of Babbage to systemize computation, the resulting persistence of the primacy of mathematics despite it’s limitations in reducibility, the failure to replace justification with adversarial falsification, the failure of philosophy to grasp these problem, and the resulting failure of the intuitionistic and operationalist programs because of the failure of Babbage and that simple inversion of truth testing. So where Cantor began the reversal of Descartes restoration of mathematics to measurement. Einstein created the platonic fiction of space time, and Bohr justified, not producing a physical model, and legions of wide eyed students and the academy, have been lost in math and mathiness when finally the premier institutes outside of the academy appear to be converging on the correct answer that the laws of the universe are in fact, quite simple. Add to that, beginning with Boas in anthropology, Marx in Economics and Politics, Lewontin and Gould in biology, the Frankfurt school in their revisionist social science, and the postmodernist attack on truth itself, we have lost more than the European tradition and rule of law, but have been propagandized into pseudoscience pseudo-mathematics, pseudo-logic and sophistry on a scale not possible since the christian destruction of the ancient world.

So I’m more worried about the collapse of thought over the past century and the problem of restoring it, than I am optimistic about what we can accomplish with AI UNLESS it speaks ‘truth before face”.

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CD

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