Monthly Archives: September 2019
What future humanity?
What sort of future humanity do you want? (Not future for.) What if you had a say? :- Doug.
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Is subjective essential?
How essential to humanity is subjective experience? What of that ought we grow? :- Doug.
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Fear of that future?
What is the fear and danger of that future? What is humanicity? :- Doug.
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Cold metal and plastic
Instead of seeing developing futures as cold metal and plastic, let us deliberately install organic living new brain and mind helpers. :- Doug.
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People are real plus
Exploring: If computation is transforming information, such as by multiplying numbers together, or dividing, we are having one act upon the other. The same is true of persons conversing, only humans are much more complex “numbers” if that term applies. … Continue reading
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Beyond safety
Humans need to think beyond safety to ascendency. :- Doug.
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Patterns related?
If computation is transforming information, and if conversation is thinking together, how are their patterns related? :- Doug.
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Bubbling dimensions
Thinking together—conversing—adds a dimension. Two becomes Three. Or 23. Now, something none of us brought can bubble up. :- Doug.
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Allows perhaps
Perhaps it is intelligence that allows us to appreciate complexity, diversity, beauty, conversation, and meaning. Perhaps it allows us to say perhaps. :- Doug.
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One right picture?
Just what is intelligence, and how is our picture of how it might be and become the one right picture? :- Doug.
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Intelligence computation conversation?
Is intelligence = computation = conversation? It is an attractive proposition. At least to me. Computation seems to be designed to come to one correct answer. Intelligence however seems to leave room for chaos and emergence. So instead is this … Continue reading
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All possible diversity
My worry most recently has been that we lose diversity. Now it is that we have a danger of losing diversity in the mid-ranges of intelligence of matter, and do not give ourselves the chance to add infinite diversity. Infinite … Continue reading
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Good long while
Well enough: for a good long while we will understand the algorithms and machines they run, well enough to disable them. :- Doug.
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Child will surprise
Expression is of humanicity. Rilke and Rumi elate us. Some day too a child of humanity, perhaps somewhat non biological, will surprise. :- Doug.
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