And next, I think we need to start the debate over what serialization language "conceptual telepathy" will be based on.
Somehow I doubt it will be JSON except maybe for the biggest geeks who already think in JavaScript or PostScript ( ala NeWS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS> circa 1988?), more likely whatever Haskell systems developers use for serialization? Has anyone developed an "ethics filter or lens" for Haskell - Streams? On 8/29/20 6:22 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > Marcus/Jon/MotherChurchers - >> Do you believe him? > > I believe that what he is demonstrating is a roughly accurate > presentation of what NL has achieved to date. > > Am I astounded by: > > 1. How much progress has been made in the field in my life > 2. How casual Musk and his fanbois/goils are about this > 3. How Musk implies that the (truly significant) level of thoughtful > safety required for Tesla cars is similar to what is required here. > > I know I often render here as a neo-luddite, and perhaps that is what > I am. I was raised on scientific progress and science fiction and > experienced a lot of engineering marvels coming to fruit right in > front of me. I have participated in and dreamed of a wide range of > human-experience-enhancement projects, both professional and private, > industrial and ad-hoc. My "inner child" wants to live forever, have > my physicality, my intellectuality, and if possible, my spirituality > enhanced in any and every way it might be. That could mean various > modes of personal behaviour from diet to exercise/activity to > meditation, etc. Technologically it could be everything from > chemistry to electronic to computational to physical. > > As I age (clumsily) it is easy for me to think of ways NL might > extend/improve my life. When I allow myself to fantasize I can go > *all over the place*. If I were younger and healthier I might be > *even more* jazzed at imaginings of *enhancing* myself, not just > mitigating losses. Driving a car or motorcycle (or flying a plane) > by "thought", extending my physiome more *directly* even than those > kinds of devices do is fairly simple/appealing. Taking the functions > currently mediated through computers with screens/keyboards/mice, > moble phones, fitness bands/rings, etc and making them more > transparent are appealing. I expect to be able to listen to > music/podcasts/audiobooks without earbuds long before I can have a > virtual Heads-Up display but I see both of those out there on the > horizon. Variations on telepresent robotics seem like excellent > fusions of many of these features. Seems like I might be living > instead of dreaming my orbital mechanics as a > telepresent-waldo-spaceship is my proxy (yes, comm lags are big > issues, but there *are* ways to mitigate and work around some of that) > And it goes on and on and on from there. The sky is (not) the limit? > > The biggest problem with/challenge to all of this in MY opinion is the > one the Amish apparently ask themselves when they are considering > whether to adopt a new (to them) technology: "who do I become when I > have this technology?" > > I have already danced a little above with some of the "things I could > do, and implied that i could be" with this technology and on the > surface, it seems like mostly upside. At best, it looks (like much > of our current technology-of-personal-convenience) like a mixed bag. > I think many of us recognize that our discovery of the energy that is > embedded in fossil fuels and the myriad ways we have learned to > harness that energy has some unintended consequences that *might* have > us wanting to roll it all back and proceed into our modern industrial > revolution a bit more thoughtfully (however one does that). > Similarly, our widespread adoption of digital > computation/storage/communication technologies might also fit that > description. Most of us agree that "screen time" is a challenge for > most demographics... Some may feel that "modern medicine" has become > a significant "double-edged scalpel" for us... and modern > agri-industry... and ... and ... > > This leads to the reality that even if I or you, or all of FriAM > resists this direction of development, or tries to overlay a strong > review and regulation on it, it is going to happen, it is going to > grow and spread. I recognize that simply being *negative* about all > progress rarely serves to help that progress be more human/humane... > if anything it pushes it into the darker corners and it ends up > emerging with kinks and twists from those dark corners shaping it more > than it needs to. > > I'm ambi-valent on this technology... stoked at the possibilities, > but also very leery of unbridled optimism and (ab)uses flying off in > all directions at once (inevitable?). This is another example of > Kauffman's "Adjacent Possible" space and bifurcation points. I > don't *like* the dreams of Kurzweil and other Singularians but I am > believing that something resembling it is more likely and Musk might > be a significant driver of that. I know he speaks cautionarily > against General AI, but I don't here him speak much about the > (overwhelming?) problems of myriad other "unintended/anticipated > consequences". > > Pedal to the metal! > > - Steve > >> >> -- >> Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> >> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
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