The point I continually make throughout my public life going back to my Congressional testimony on privatizing space launch services <https://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2018/04/necessity-and-incentives-opening-space.html> and the legislation the co-founder of the US fusion energy program and I proposed to reform that program prizes for objective milestones <https://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2017/07/fusion-energy-prize-awards.html>, is that Incentives matter. The prize awards for lossless compression are there to address conflicts of interest that are an inescapable aspect of public discourse regarding social policy. These interests are in the 10s of trillions of dollars.
I posted that link about "sex" simply because the resulting dialogue there gets us out of the "what would you do" or even "what is the right model" question to address the underlying issue facing civilization ever since the 30 Years War paved the way for experimental controls as a key aspect of the scientific method. We're almost there, again, Matt. Ask not what I would do with this information, ask why we don't have this information in the first place. On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2025, 11:26 AM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sex >> >> https://chatgpt.com/share/69481f4c-83bc-8007-a950-322e3e62fa31 >> > > What social theories about sex do you want to test? What data would you > compress? > > Traditional conservative attitudes towards sex evolved to maximize > reproduction. Humans are uniquely monogamous among primates, experiencing > love and jealousy, because children raised by two parents have a higher > survival rate. Human females are unique among mammals in that they don't go > into heat to signal ovulation and can have sex outside of this interval. > Humans are unique among animals in covering their genitals to avoid sexual > signaling, whether it's penis gourds in Papua New Guinea or burqas in > Afghanistan. We criminalized behavior like homosexuality because it doesn't > lead to reproduction. We enforced patriarchy because women produce more > children when they don't have a choice. > > There is a great deal of controversy over attitudes towards sex. It's not > that they are fundamentally right are wrong. It's just the way we were > raised and taught to believe. Objectively, we observe population decline in > countries and cultures that reject religion and conservative values. > > ChatGPT doesn't answer these questions. What data and what theories? If I > were to list fertility rate, attitudes toward sex, religion, and women's > rights, and availability of birth control and abortion by country, I am > pretty sure these are highly correlated, making the table more > compressible. Then what would you do with this information? > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T6cf3be509c7cd2f2-Me3c04ac975c780c8eab045f9> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T6cf3be509c7cd2f2-Mab9fba5f307b3d5c27a3e33e Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
