Das Kapital is our most successful experiment in artificial life, but it's still feral and no one has the least clue how to domesticate it, and the grey goo we're constructing is a mass of collateralized debt instruments.
-- rec -- On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 11:03 AM Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > > https://doctorow.medium.com/solar-is-a-market-for-financial-lemons-ea00699fe0a2 > > I suspect the opinions among the members of this list range widely on > Doctorow's work, my general response to him is a guarded positive. > > I offer this article to you nominally about the problems with > rooftop-solar "gaming" but as a reflection on Corporations (and I claim > governments, religions, other institutions) as "slow AI". Rooftop Solar > is just a contemporary somewhat benign case-study. > > They are both contrived as "rule-based" systems and evolved in the same > mode as Machine Learning Models. > > The 2023 rush of AI/ML into the public's eye and hands might well > overwhelm us with false-paths to individual and collective prosperity. > Opportunities for dead-ends or overshoots abound in the harsh light of "reward > hacking" <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_hacking>? > > And then we have the spectre of > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
