If they talk about their magical thinking, then that talk can be mined as well.
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From: Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of glen <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 10:43 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] more structure-based mind-reading

I think that's the very definition of behaviorist. I/O supervenes on structure. 
The non-behaviorist conjecture is that degenerate structures exist and harbor 
latent Black Swans. So, they can mine whatever I/O they want, for however long, 
and they will only ever *approach* those internal structures.

On 9/7/22 09:28, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Meta, Google, etc. may have relatively surface behaviorist measures now, but 
> eventually they'll be mining all the media streams they provide to peopple, 
> all scholarly articles, everything.   It won't be shallow and behaviorist.
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> *From:* Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of glen 
> <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 7, 2022 9:34 AM
> *To:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] more structure-based mind-reading
> But doesn't this answer your question of "why model some complex (if 
> meaningless) phenomena if it can driven toward something less complex?" The 
> answer is: because Meta, Google, etc. take only surface, shallow, behaviorist 
> measures. Depth search can reveal (perhaps overly) complex structures the 
> breadth search can't take. If the behaviorists are right, ontologically, and 
> everything significant *is* written on the surface, then yes, the power is 
> already gone.
>
> But if the behaviorists are wrong, depth search, complex models, will be a 
> power reserve not available to the identifiably Bad Faith behaviorists who 
> think they can simulate invested community members at will.
>
> Being a skeptical agnostic, my best guess (or hope) is that both depth and 
> breadth have power. Perhaps what "we are for" is deep modeling. The whole 
> rigmarole of denying the Hard Problem, Mysticism, the "inner life", etc. may 
> well circumscribe the eventual value of the unique individual. It need not be 
> any kind of metaphysical/biological thing, either. Once some future bot, a 
> descendant of LaMDA, does possess "sentience", that bot will also be a 
> deep/complex modeler.
>
> Your question can be reformulated: Do we need deep/complex modelers? And it's 
> just a restatement of the Hard Problem.
>
> On 9/7/22 08:09, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> There's an energy efficiency benefit of biological systems over silicon ML, 
>> but we make up for it by driving around in cars and using huge amounts of 
>> energy crushing rock to make our roads and buildings.   I maybe know a 
>> hundred people, but these large-scale  systems at Meta, Google, etc. can 
>> study millions of people over hundreds or thousands of hours of measurement. 
>>   It might be possible someday to grow a computing system from a seed, but 
>> for now I think you are right.   I don't see any point in talking about 
>> ceding power, it's already gone.   Best case scenario is joining a hive.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 8:00 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] more structure-based mind-reading
>>
>> Right. I agree with the sentiment that something like "agency" exists inside 
>> a trained LLM, and that the ontogeny of that LLM has historicity. That 
>> balled up pocket of "expertise" is not significantly different from the 
>> balled up expertise in an expert human  like Murray Gell-Mann. But what *is* 
>> different is the asymmetric power held by the ontogenic process.
>>
>> Like GitHub or OpenAI literally profiting off the efforts of open-sourced 
>> code or scrapable manually generated art, you *cannot* withhold the 
>> source(s). The construction (and execution) of such models is and will be 
>> limited to those of us with the *power*  to do so. I.e. Google, Amazon, 
>> Microsoft, etc. Spinning up T0pp <https://huggingface.co/bigscience/T0pp 
>> <https://huggingface.co/bigscience/T0pp>> on your own machine requires you 
>> to have enough "disposable" resources to instantiate that machine.
>>
>> Of course, it's reasonable to throw up one's hands and give people like 
>> Thiel a pass when he gives $15 mil to an evil-doer like JD Vance. Thiel has 
>> the right to do whatever he wants because he has the *power* to scrape all 
>> that data and use it to create a  new Monarchy backed by Oligarchy. What ya 
>> gonna do?
>>
>> The above *should* demonstrate why the ontogeny of Dall-E is *not* the same 
>> as a horseman (or blacksmith or brewer or whatever) who continues to 
>> practice that obsolete artisanry. That's a false equivalence. The 
>> re-generation of Dall-E (into something like  Stable Diffusion) is not like 
>> smithing or horsemanship. It's permanently a task that can only be done by 
>> those who have the power to do it.
>>
>> So, sure, we can cede the power to the Thiels as you argue. But let's be 
>> prepared to be the serfs we'll be when that happens.
>>
>> On 9/7/22 07:38, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>>> It's like a horseman that insists on practicing his trade despite the 
>>> existence of cars.    There's some market for it, but if that market got 
>>> bigger due to some world event, people would easily relearn it.   It is 
>>> funny to hear people preach about the importance  of being literate and 
>>> informed.  But, when a multi-billion parameter deep neural net reads many 
>>> texts and can synthesize new ones, it is regarded I in a different way.    
>>> If someone says, "I wrote a novel", I can and do think "Ok, she offers to 
>>> have me review the evidence of her latent state encodings."   The bigger 
>>> question is what does human cognitive life look like after AI starts to 
>>> outperform us?  What are we for?
>>>
>>> Deep fakes are going to get better and better, and really the only defense 
>>> I can see is withholding the sources that make it possible.
>>>
>>> My point about prescriptive vs. descriptive models is about the appetite 
>>> for them, rather than whether they are good or not.   There is little 
>>> political or commercial value in aspiring to greater things if one can get 
>>> by on demagoguery and repetitive advertising.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen
>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 7:05 AM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] more structure-based mind-reading
>>>
>>> As long as our metaphysical commitment is to an open system, I agree it's 
>>> pragmatic to choose the model/explanation that's only as complex as it 
>>> needs to be, not a bit more. But if we're wrong and the world is not open, 
>>> or non-convex so that some regions  of the space, once lost may be 
>>> difficult to reach again, lost complexity might imply lost opportunity. 
>>> "Use it or lose it", I guess.
>>>
>>> Personally, imagine trying to learn long-form literature or philosophy in 
>>> these days of large language models:
>>>
>>> https://return.life/2022/07/26/conversation-stopper/ 
>>> <https://return.life/2022/07/26/conversation-stopper/>
>>>
>>> I'm seeing more and more links like "I wrote a novel with GPT-3!" Ugh. Why 
>>> would I read that? And what's the point of learning to write if you can 
>>> knead GPT-3 into doing it for you?
>>>
>>> If we're all out here *driving* models to their least complex, we won't be 
>>> able to detect deep fakes or resist manipulation by evil-doers like 
>>> Palantir. Nobody'll be able to tell the difference. It'll be bronzer all 
>>> the way down.
>>>
>>> On 9/6/22 17:54, Steve Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 9/6/22 6:17 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>>>>> Why model some complex (if meaningless) phenomena if it can driven toward 
>>>>> something less complex?  I mean, jeez, isn’t DJT’s patchy and 
>>>>> inconsistent use of bronzer proof that people don’t really care about 
>>>>> detail?
>>>>
>>>> I am often perplexed by this...   I can't tell if DJT 
>>>> cluelessly/arrogantly bronzed up with his own tiny fists or if he had a 
>>>> professional makeup person go to the effort to make him look that bad...   
>>>> my father's comment about Rodeo Clowns was: "you have  to be really good 
>>>> to look that bad"...
>>>>
>>>> There are other features of DJTs behaviour that suggests it really is 
>>>> arrogant cluelessness, but then there is *also* clearly a "method to his 
>>>> madness" on many levels...  He is the ultimate "tool" which is fascinating 
>>>> because he has created (or groomed)  so many "tools" himself...  if one 
>>>> must grant him "genius" it is rooted somehow in his ability to play both 
>>>> ends against the middle in so many dimensions...
>>>>
>>>>> I watched this black comedy last night.  _Killer Joe_.  It predated MAGA. 
>>>>>  It nicely captures how low-dimensional culture can be.  What’s needed in 
>>>>> these circumstances is a complete deconstruction and deletion of empathy. 
>>>>>  Ask what rats would do.   Oh  it takes me back.
>>>> I do like me a good "black comedy"...  I recently enjoyed Woody Harrelson 
>>>> as _The Man from Toronto_...  McConaughey also rarely disappoints.
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sep 6, 2022, at 11:15 AM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can't find/recall the exact quote, but you made something of a convert 
>>>>>> of me when we were discussing whether creativity/learning was *anything 
>>>>>> more* than complex/elaborate mimicry.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Crypto-anythings (closeted "whatevers") have worked this in a similar 
>>>>>> way to spies, but where there is a little more complicity by the 
>>>>>> non-cryptos who may well be collaborating in the "closeting", in the 
>>>>>> spirit of "don't ask, don't tell"...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "I/he/she/it/ze can pass" is the bar...   it is OK if some/many of the 
>>>>>> observers "suspect" the true nature but the community shares the 
>>>>>> consequences of a community member proving to be "less than 
>>>>>> fully-compliant".
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Whitelash supremacists' dog-whistles are a good example.   I don't want 
>>>>>> to think that my neighbor is part of that movement, so some of the 
>>>>>> slightly "off color" things she might say across the fence, I am 
>>>>>> inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to... so if she notice I don't 
>>>>>> respond to her dog whistles, she continues to whistle them under her 
>>>>>> breath now and then, just to soothe her inner racist/mysXinist and maybe 
>>>>>> keep checking if I maybe have been "converted", and I continue to 
>>>>>> (hopefully) ignore it and keep bringing her casseroles (laced with 
>>>>>> xanax) when her husband is recovering from his latest self-inflicted 
>>>>>> gunshot wound...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In this case, we are *all* "acting as if"...   until someone gets 
>>>>>> converted to "radical honesty" and that just adds another level of 
>>>>>> indirection of (self/other) deception.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 9/6/22 8:37 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>>>>>>> I had to do some cybersecurity training and it was set up so that all 
>>>>>>> the choices one could make led to the same outcome.   The point was to 
>>>>>>> understand the properties of the paths, not the outcome.
>>>>>>> While that wisdom might be of some value in some other situation, often 
>>>>>>> there is no discernable difference between the nuance in a social rule 
>>>>>>> and variation that arises due to novelty or ambiguity of circumstances. 
>>>>>>> The signal to noise ratio just isn't  high enough to justify the extra 
>>>>>>> precision.   The actors in this training could have been interpreted as 
>>>>>>> quietly demonstrating concern rather than neglect.   One could imagine 
>>>>>>> a cartel boss would not want to wait for a reasonable number of 
>>>>>>> outliers before taking action. After all the cartel boss is a criminal 
>>>>>>> and not concerned with fairness.  An experienced undercover cop knows 
>>>>>>> she needs to mimic the expected distribution very carefully, and that 
>>>>>>> even if she does mimic it very carefully her life is still in danger.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Marcus
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>>>>>>> *From:* Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of glen
>>>>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 6, 2022 7:57 AM
>>>>>>> *To:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] more structure-based mind-reading Well,
>>>>>>> Steve's targeting of "feeling included" does target "understanding". 
>>>>>>> I'd argue that the spies don't understand the communities they 
>>>>>>> infiltrate. Even deep undercover or method acting doesn't provide 
>>>>>>> understanding. I argue that any bad faith actor like  a spy or "acting 
>>>>>>> while cynical" has a reductive objective as their target. What was 
>>>>>>> interesting about the concept of bad faith was Sartre's suggestion that 
>>>>>>> the deep undercover operator who finally *does* begin to identify with 
>>>>>>> the community they've infiltrated is the interesting edge case. That's 
>>>>>>> the cusp of understanding.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I suppose I'm making a similar argument to EricC's argument for 
>>>>>>> "belief", which I call "dispositional". If you don't act on your 
>>>>>>> belief, then you don't actually believe that thing. So, an undercover 
>>>>>>> cop who infiltrates a drug cartel but refuses to Necklace  a local 
>>>>>>> do-gooder just doesn't understand what it means to be in the cartel. 
>>>>>>> They can't understand. And they shouldn't understand. The spy is there 
>>>>>>> for a more specific objective, not understanding.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One of those more specific objectives might be *prediction*. In 
>>>>>>> simulation and [x|i]ML, there's a stark distinction between predictive 
>>>>>>> versus explanatory power. Ideally, strong explanatory power provides 
>>>>>>> predictive power. But practically, 80/20, reductive  prediction is 
>>>>>>> easier, faster, and more important. The excess meaning is swept under 
>>>>>>> the rug of variation or noise. At raves, a reductive objective is harm 
>>>>>>> reduction. Sure, it would be fantastic to teach all the kids 
>>>>>>> pharmaco[kinetics|dynamics] and chemistry ... as well as psychology and 
>>>>>>> neuroscience. But the harm reduction tent is not really there to get 
>>>>>>> into the kids' minds. The objective isn't understanding. It's a 
>>>>>>> reductive focus on dampening the edge cases.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 9/3/22 08:47, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>>>>>>>> The claim is that there is all this diversity in subcultures and that 
>>>>>>>> the only way to understand them is to participate in them. If it is 
>>>>>>>> possible to fake it, and I think it is, then that raises doubts about 
>>>>>>>> the claim.   That is what spies specialize  in.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Sep 2, 2022, at 7:17 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I have spent most of my life avoiding "acting while cynical"... I 
>>>>>>>>> have *felt* cynical about a lot of things, and Marcus' description of 
>>>>>>>>> a lot of things speaks to my "inner cynic" but I haven't spent much 
>>>>>>>>> time being *harmed* by engaging in "performative  activities while 
>>>>>>>>> feeling cynical about them".    If I dig a hole it is either because 
>>>>>>>>> *I* need a hole, or someone else *needs* a whole, and only rarely do 
>>>>>>>>> I help someone dig a hole as a team/trust/affinity building exercise 
>>>>>>>>> unless the   There are too many holes in the world that *want* 
>>>>>>>>> digging to spend much effort en-performance.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I've never felt particulary "included" in any social circle and I 
>>>>>>>>> have seen that a little bit of "Performative Grease" might have 
>>>>>>>>> helped this square peg fit more-better in the round holes it 
>>>>>>>>> encountered, but generally I simply avoided those activities  and 
>>>>>>>>> drifted further and further out.  That is not to say I haven't 
>>>>>>>>> *tried* to be a good sport and do what others were doing on the off 
>>>>>>>>> chance that it would actually be something that worked for me, but 
>>>>>>>>> generally not.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> BTW... there seems to be some inverted general usage of 
>>>>>>>>> "square-peg/round-hole", drilling a round hole and then driving a 
>>>>>>>>> square(ish) peg into it guarantees a good tight fit... it is 
>>>>>>>>> preferred to round peg-round hole in traditional joinery.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 9/2/22 8:17 AM, glen wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> OK. But the affinity and "inner self" alluded to by the phrase 
>>>>>>>>>> "faking it" is nothing but a personality momentum, a build-up of 
>>>>>>>>>> past behaviors, like a fly-wheel spun up by all the previous 
>>>>>>>>>> affinities and faking of it. We faked it in our mom's womb,  faked 
>>>>>>>>>> it as babies, faked it as children on the playground or in class, 
>>>>>>>>>> etc. all the way up to the last time we faked it digging ditches or 
>>>>>>>>>> pair programming in Java.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The only difference between feeling an affinity and engaging in a 
>>>>>>>>>> new faking it exercise is the extent to which the new collaboration 
>>>>>>>>>> is similar to the previous collaborations. As both Steve and Dave 
>>>>>>>>>> point out, spend enough time living in a world  and you'll grow 
>>>>>>>>>> affine to that world (and the world will grow affine to you).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I suppose it's reasonable to posit a spectrum (or a higher dim 
>>>>>>>>>> space) on which some people have particularly inertial fly-wheels 
>>>>>>>>>> and others have more easily disturbed things that store less energy. 
>>>>>>>>>> Of the Big 5, my guess would be neuroticism would  be most inertial. 
>>>>>>>>>> Perhaps openness and agreeableness would be the least inertial.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 9/2/22 05:35, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> There are many common tasks that parties could direct their 
>>>>>>>>>>> attention toward.   This happens at companies, prison cafeterias, 
>>>>>>>>>>> and churches.   That it is grounded in a particular way doesn't 
>>>>>>>>>>> make it any truer, or anyone more committed to it.   We  are often 
>>>>>>>>>>> forced to participate in cultures we don't care about, and faking 
>>>>>>>>>>> it is an important skill. Just because someone sweats or gets 
>>>>>>>>>>> calluses or tolerates others' inappropriate emotions in some circle 
>>>>>>>>>>> of people, doesn't mean there is any affinity toward that circle. 
>>>>>>>>>>> Oh look, he dug a hole.  I dug a hole.    Sure, I'd do those kind 
>>>>>>>>>>> of performative activities if I were a politician, as I bet there 
>>>>>>>>>>> are people who think this way.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>>>>> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen
>>>>>>>>>>> Sent: Friday, September 2, 2022 12:06 AM
>>>>>>>>>>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
>>>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] more structure-based mind-reading
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> And, of course, there is no such thing except appearance. What 
>>>>>>>>>>> could it possibly mean to say that an appearance of a bond exists, 
>>>>>>>>>>> but no actual bond exists?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On September 1, 2022 7:29:45 PM PDT, Marcus Daniels 
>>>>>>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> If you want to create the appearance of a bond where none exists, 
>>>>>>>>>>>> get to work.   Once one recognizes the nature of work it is easy.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sep 1, 2022, at 6:25 PM, Prof David West <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>     From glen: "If you want to share values with some
>>>>>>>>>>>> arbitrary shmoe, then get to
>>>>>>>>>>>>           *work*. Build something or cooperate on a common task.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Talking,
>>>>>>>>>>>>           communicating, is inadequate at best, disinfo at worst."
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> This is kinda the whole point of Participant Observation at the 
>>>>>>>>>>>> core of cultural anthropology. The premise is you cannot truly 
>>>>>>>>>>>> understand a culture until you live it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Of course, there is still a boundary, a separation, between the 
>>>>>>>>>>>> anthropologist and those with whom she interacts, but sweat, 
>>>>>>>>>>>> calluses, blood, and emotions go a long way toward establishing 
>>>>>>>>>>>> actual understanding.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> davew
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2022, at 12:30 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 9/1/22 11:21 AM, glen wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Inter-brain synchronization occurs without physical
>>>>>>>>>>>> co-presence during cooperative online gaming
>>>>>>>>>>>> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393222 
>>>>>>>>>>>> <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393222>
>>>>>>>>>>>> 001750
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> There's a lot piled into the aggregate measures of EEG. And the 
>>>>>>>>>>>> mere fact of the canalization conflates the unifying tendencies of 
>>>>>>>>>>>> the objective (shared purpose) with that of the common structure 
>>>>>>>>>>>> (virtual world, interface, body, brain). But overall,  it argues 
>>>>>>>>>>>> against this guru focus on "sense-making" (hermeneutic, monistic 
>>>>>>>>>>>> reification) and helps argue for the fundamental plurality, 
>>>>>>>>>>>> openness, and stochasticity of "language games".
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> If you want to share values with some arbitrary shmoe, then get to 
>>>>>>>>>>>> *work*. Build something or cooperate on a common task. Talking, 
>>>>>>>>>>>> communicating, is inadequate at best, disinfo at worst.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I agree somewhat with the spirit of this, however a recent 
>>>>>>>>>>>> writer/book I discovered is Sand 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Talk<https://www.harpercollins.com/products/sand-talk-tyson-yunkaporta?variant=32280908103714
>>>>>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>>>>>> <https://www.harpercollins.com/products/sand-talk-tyson-yunkaporta?variant=32280908103714>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>  by Tyson Yunkaporta and more specifically his references to 
>>>>>>>>>>>> "Yarning" in his indigenous Australian culture offered me a 
>>>>>>>>>>>> complementary perspective...
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I definitely agree that the "building of something together" is a 
>>>>>>>>>>>> powerful world-building/negotiating/collaborative/seeking 
>>>>>>>>>>>> experience.   The social sciences use the term Boundary 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Object<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_object 
>>>>>>>>>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_object>> and Boundary 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Negotiation Artifact.    Jenny and I wrote a draft white-paper on 
>>>>>>>>>>>> the topic of the SimTable as a "boundary negotiating artifact" 
>>>>>>>>>>>> last time she visited (2019?).    A lot of 
>>>>>>>>>>>> computer-graphics/visualization products provide fill this role, 
>>>>>>>>>>>> but the physicality of a sand-table with it's tactility and 
>>>>>>>>>>>> multiple perspectives add yet more.   The soap-box racer or fort 
>>>>>>>>>>>> you build with your friend as a kid provides the same.   The bulk 
>>>>>>>>>>>> of my best relationships in life involved "building something 
>>>>>>>>>>>> together" whether it be a software system or a house...
>>>>>>>>>>


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