Theme: Truth

  • Well, you know, I’m in the business of testimony. I can’t testify to that (you c

    Well, you know, I’m in the business of testimony. I can’t testify to that (you can’t either). We can predict that as one of the many outcomes in a field of possibilities. We can trust our judgment or not, but that’s not making a truth claim about the world – just you. 😉

    People said the paper currency wouldn’t work either. And the paper currency isn’t backed. Digital fiat currency doesn’t even exist as paper. It’s just debt on a hierarchy of ledgers.

    So I stick to criticizing the risks that are unstated or understated and assume it will evolve into something other than what it is, simply because the utility of the ledger is better than any method or tech we have today.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-17 17:00:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1626627746926325760

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1626626326516858888

  • Dear Lord, Professor, Saint @elonmusk ;), (All) Yes, we can build a TruthGPT. Ye

    Dear Lord, Professor, Saint @elonmusk ;), (All)

    Yes, we can build a TruthGPT.
    Yes, I know how. I’m a nerd. 😉
    You have no reason to believe me.
    People who follow my work do.
    I had to solve the Truth problem for an AI that could test law, constitution, legislation, regulation, and speech for truthfulness.

    I have too much on my plate reforming law for the same reason (Truth, Possibility, Legality, Legitimacy), to start another company to produce on an AI – though it’s something I’ve worked on and planned for years.

    TSLA could easily produce a TruthAI, and Twitter could use and AI produced by TSLA. The world would benefit from a TruthAI more than any technology… well…, other than a safe battery with N-times the energy density of gasoline. 😉

    For anyone interested:

    1. The embodiment that TSLA uses for cars and robots is necessary for world modeling, and world modeling is necessary for categorization (identification) from context.

    2. Route Finding in vehicles and robots is necessary for Recursive Wayfinding (thinking and problem-solving.)

    3. Novelty Detection and World Modeling combined with Way Finding are necessary for episodic memory. Memories favor novelties.

    4. Object, Space, and Background classification, combined with episodes (contexts) are necessary for sufficient disambiguation to determine ‘ownership’ and predictions.

    5. If you study linguistics you quickly realize that universal morality is embedded in all our languages (particularly English because it’s a high-precision low-context language) in the form of permission to act on a person, object, space, class, etc.

    6 So, moral AI that respects life and demonstrated interest (property) and even negotiates over control and transfer of interest is pretty simple.

    7. The next higher-order problem then is one of speech (truth). While justificationary truth is impossible (yes really) survival of falsification is possible (yes really).

    8. There is one simple logic to the universe at all scales that provides us with the opportunity for a constructive falsificationary logic. (That was the hard part)

    9. The hard bit for the next generation to swallow, is that there is a relatively simple set of criteria for *universal falsification of statements* and a *universally commensurable paradigm, grammar, vocabulary, logic, and syntax* – Yes really.

    When written or spoken language using this ‘grammar’ looks and sounds like a bit tedious form of ordinary language. And this tedious form can be reduced to ordinary language on output.

    In other words, we can and have produced a non-cardinal, ordinal, qualitative, geometry of language that can test the possibility of any speech or text’s testifiability (truth). And we can and have produced a rule set (checklist) for Truthful(testifiable), ethical(direct), and moral(indirect) questions.

    THE PLAYERS TODAY AND WHY TSLA MATTERS

    TSLA vs Google vs OpenAI use three different models. OpenAi is the simplest, Google’s a bit more challenging, and TSLA’s the most difficult.

    Now, we require TSLA’s world model to create an AI that can continuously recursively and in real-time produce truth tests.

    And we need eventually neuromorphic hardware (many tiny simple processors with a bit of local memory) to circumvent the backpropagation cost problem (and the alternatives, and evolve closer to real-time learning. (FWIW recent innovations in solving the cost problem has been exciting and is gaining popularity – thanks to one of the fathers of the field.)

    The combination of local truth testing of tangible questions and escalation to distant central truth testing for increasingly abstract questions is the holy grail of imitating the human mind and its use of collective minds as a market for knowledge and decisions.

    (BTW: Thanks #TwitterDev for long-form tweets. It’s finally possible to inform with Twitter instead of just virtue signal and generate conflict by promoting viscous cycles of moral outrage for dopamine junkies. 😉 )


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-17 16:11:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1626615439638798337

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1626533667408596992

  • So you’ve adopted relativism now? 😉

    So you’ve adopted relativism now? 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-17 02:10:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1626403579043934209

    Reply addressees: @TheAutistocrat @TyrantsMuse

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1626402934450794497

  • “The problem of asymmetry of information has been replaced by challenge of infor

    –“The problem of asymmetry of information has been replaced by challenge of information vs disinformation, and useful vs useless information.”–Martin & Luke


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-16 15:43:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1626245923553550337

  • RT @DegenRolf: Published research in the environmental sciences joins psychology

    RT @DegenRolf: Published research in the environmental sciences joins psychology in having serious problems with the reliability of its bo…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-16 04:29:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1626076356403511296

  • They also have better knowledge than reporters

    They also have better knowledge than reporters.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-15 23:20:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1625998553658150914

    Reply addressees: @Sho69178594

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1625983764622110727

  • Impractical. a) keep press secretary. b) move reporters out of the white house c

    Impractical.
    a) keep press secretary.
    b) move reporters out of the white house
    c) have the president give addresses as needed.
    d) implement p-law on truth before face in public to the public in matters public.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-15 20:52:54 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1625961369513197580

    Reply addressees: @Sho69178594

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1625959175368089600

  • If you find better work than mine on the truth please tell me. Tip: you won’t. S

    If you find better work than mine on the truth please tell me.

    Tip: you won’t.

    See:
    Decidability
    Truthfulness
    Reciprocity
    Demonstrated Interest


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-15 20:51:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1625960980738895873

    Reply addressees: @GPEditor

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1625956179632422920

  • THE PURPOSE OF THE POSTMODERNISTS (the big lies are a distraction from the one t

    THE PURPOSE OF THE POSTMODERNISTS
    (the big lies are a distraction from the one truth)

    The magician’s hand uses feints to distract you from what deception he’s creating.

    Like Boaz, Freud, Marx, Horkimer, Adorno, Fromm, Marcuse, Benjamin, Gould, Lewontin, Friedan et al, the purpose of the Postmodernists wasn’t to undermine all grand narratives, but to undermine ONE true, universal, explanation for all of existence, without stating that explanation: Darwinian evolution of the entirety of the universe – and as a consequence, western civilization’s myth, history, institutions, traditions, rituals, religions, and norms, that discovered, applied, adapted to, and evolved from the laws of nature, despite the high physical, psychological and emotional cost.

    Liars all.

    Why do you presume to think a thing is what it pretends to be rather than what it causes by that pretense? That is how you are ‘sold the lie’.

    A thing is not what it claims, but what it causes. And if you spend your life lying and undermining with pilpul and critique, that is your metaphysics, your presumption of how the world should be – vs how it is- and all you utter will be lies,and all you do the consequence of those lies.

    Are you a liar if you intend to lie? Or if you fail due diligence in ensuring you aren’t transmitting a lie? Or both?

    The social constructionist are just nouveau priests and prophets selling the false promise of freedom from the Darwinian physical, behavioral, and evolutionary laws of the universe, and the formal laws of logic that assist us in explaining them.

    There is only one law: Evolution.

    There is only one way to achieve it: discovery, application, and adaptation: the process of continuous change.

    There is only one way to maximize discovery: a vast division of perception, cognition, advocacy, negotiation, cooperation, and labor.

    There is only one way to maximize that cooperation: the eradication of predation, parasitism, free riding, fraud, and deceit.

    The natural law.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-15 20:49:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1625960566786326540

  • Ideas are implied by other ideas. The artist who employs suggestion states what

    Ideas are implied by other ideas. The artist who employs suggestion states what will cause the secondary or tertiary effect. The purpose of Postmodernism was to undermine knowledge, truth, decidability, cooperation, economics, and evolution as as the explanation for the universe, man, and most importantly, the meritocracy of western civilization.

    Why do you presume to think a thing is what it pretends to be rather than what it causes by that pretense?


    Source date (UTC): 2023-02-15 20:26:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1625954850981744657

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1625952307014733841