> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Nuzz [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sounds kind of like my interactions with people on Facebook as well. Average > people like to have opinions but only want to entertain those who blindly > accept it, and Facebook and some modern IM platforms even reward that > behavior by design. This is a bigger problem than the so called toxic speech > even in the intended use of the terminology. > The political polarization the country experienced around the last election is > only one symptom, and there are many more gradual changes (for the > worse) that are less noticeable. > This is almost akin to the beginnings of a doomsday UFAI "genie" scenario in > a sense.
The toxic rating example is more of a general issue in society that has been around a while. "I only got a 76 in my Poetry class!" It's a further dimensionalising, a rationalization to get a "score". A compression and oversimplification, IMO a limitation of "rationality" in general. One could say this type of rationality is a lossy compression that reduces complexity through biases with the intentional symbolistic gain via a categorizing simplification for agent energy expense minimization. "Ya, she's only a B student." "He's a pretty toxic person." "All dogs can be dangerous." "Rainy days always get me down." "Things are looking good now." Much of it is related to being forced to funnel agent communication expression into natural language to other agents who decompress it. "Ya, she's only a B student.", in an improved world her performance in poetry class would be representable in more bits than just a "score". A toxic person could be decoded and represented in a more understandable way, perhaps he can only post online before his morning coffee break and appears "toxic". There is a better representational methodology but it would take more bits and computation in its representation at the cost of generalizing and convenience. John ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
