We now know that it’s a process where many things can go wrong.
for - AI - progress trap - AI won't always listen to humans - probably due to unintentional design
We now know that it’s a process where many things can go wrong.
for - AI - progress trap - AI won't always listen to humans - probably due to unintentional design
Computers, they don't care if it's night or day, if it's summer or winter, they don't need vacations, they don't have families they want to spend time with. They are always on. And therefore they might force us to be always on,
for - comparison - humans vs machines - organic vs inorganic
If you imagine all the ways you can play Go as a kind of planet with a geography. So humans were stuck on one island in the planet Go for more than 2000 years, because human minds just couldn't conceive of going beyond this small island.
for - AI - AlphaGo - analogy - humans stuck on small island for 2,000 years
understanding how that alignment happens, how an entire collective buys into the same story. In an important sense, models of the world, AKA stories, hold collectives together
for - stories - unity - cells - humans - Michael Levin - whether you are a cell or a human, you need to buy into the same story in order to solve problems together.
In fact, by the time humans began the practice of cultivation of annual grains the total human population on Earth stood at around 6–10 million people. One might say that hunting and gathering is an energetically contained system and not an energetically expansionary system.
for - comparison - hunter gatherer vs agricultural - energetically contained vs energetically expansionary - stats - hunter -gatherer humans - population before agriculture - 6 to 10 million people.
This type of extreme sociality does not occur in humans, so humans do not attain the status of a superorganism
for - superorganism - humans? no - extreme sociality doesn't occur
for - youtube - BBC - AI2027 - Futures - AI - progress trap - AI - to AI2027 website - https://hyp.is/0VHJqH3cEfCm9JM_EB3ypQ/ai-2027.com/
summary - This dystopian futures scenario is the brainchild of former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, - It is premised on human behavior in modernity including - confirmation bias of AI researchers - entrenched competing political ideologies that motivate an AI arms race - entrenched capitalist market behavior that motivates an AI arms race - AI becoming embodied, resulting in Artificially Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AEAI), posing the danger to humanity because it's no longer just talk, but action - Can it happen? The probability is not zero.We don't really understand the behavior of the AI LLM's we design, they are nonpredictable, and as we give them even greater power, that is a slippery slope - AI can become humanity's ultimate progress trap, which is ironic, because the technology that promises to be the most efficient of all, can become so efficient, it no longer need human beings - Remember Jerry Kaplan's book "Humans need not apply"? - https://hyp.is/o0lBFH3fEfC1QLfnLSs5Bg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiiP5ROnzw8 - This dystopian futures scenario goes further and explores the idea that "humans need not exist"!
question - What about emulating climate change gamification of "Bend the Curve" of emissions? - Use the AI 2027 trajectory as a template and see how much real-life follows this trajectory - Just as we have the countdown to the https://climateclock.world/ ( 3 years and change remaining as of today) - perhaps we can have an AI 2027 clock? - What can we do to "bend the dystopian AI 2027 curve" AWAY from the dystopian future?
for - youtube - Google Talks - Humans need not apply - Jerry Kaplan - 10 years after the book "Humans need not apply - the AI 2027 project - https://hyp.is/kWXQ0n3cEfCIUz_j42HHiA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UufaK3pQMg
for - Similar to - Ronald Wright computer metaphor - We're cave people stuck in a modern world - YouTube - Humans are not evolved by for midterm life - interview - host - BBC series - Human
The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined byconditioning and conditions
We each begin life as an infant, totally dependent on others. We are directed, nurtured,and sustained by others. Without this nurturing, we would only live for a few hours or afew days at the most.Then gradually, over the ensuing months and years, we become more and moreindependent -- physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially -- until eventually wecan essentially take care of ourselves, becoming inner-directed and self-reliant.
i think this is such a simple and straightforward and basic point that proves that we do need each other. we cannot live without our nurse as infants. and the more we grow up, our needs change but those are still needs. and even though we have grown self-reliant as adult humans, we still have needs that are fundamentally given by others.
fundamentally change how we connect talent to opportunities
This is a narrative few are hearing and fewer are promoting: a huge benefit of the ecosystem vision is about connecting people and opportunities
Human individuation consists of more than a biological process of matura-tion; it is a spiral process of ongoingly integrating, dissolving, and re-integratingone’s psyche
for - indviduation - in humans
there is something that all humans do naturally even without education yeah and that is learn language
for - quote - language education - there is something that all humans do naturally even without education, and that is learn language - David Long
for - youtube - Ecology or Economics? - David Suzuki - humans and nature - nondual relationship - humans and nature - intertwingled
Summary - David Suzuki gives a great talk on the relationship between ecology ad economy - In particular, the standout for me is the story of intertwingledness and nonseparation he learned from the Haida people. - See the annotations below to find the part of the talk when he has the epiphany that we are not separated from nature, and he learns this from the Haida people's nondual relationship with nature
Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago
for - meme - Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago - Comparison - meme - Ronald Wright - 50,000 years - Richard Heinberg 10,000 years - quote - Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago -Richard Heinberg
Comparison - meme - Ronald Wright - Richard Heinberg - Richard uses the 10,000 year figure while Ronald Wright uses 50,000 years. - Who is more accurate? Check with anthropologist.
Quote - Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago -Richard Heinberg
New idea - Deep Humanity communication - comparison modern be ancient - I like Heinberg's articulation. It's good to use in my own communication. - Perform a detailed comparison of - world view - mental models - behaviour and habits - between - ancestors from 10,000 / 50,000 years ago - modern humans
for - book - Burnout from Humans: A little book about AI that is not really about AI - Aiden Cinnamon Tea & Dorothy Ladybugboss - 2024
Julius Caesar. Writing of Gaul(France) in the mid-first century Bc he states, quite deliberately ofthe inhabitants, presumably in an attempt at clarification, ‘we call[them] Gauls though in their own language they are called Celts’.
In many languages, the name people call themselves is often the word for "human" or "people".
for - umwelt - sensory substitution - visual to auditory - V2A - David Eagleman - from - webcast - Michael Levin - Can we create new senses for humans? - interview - David Eagleman - https://hyp.is/BHS6up09Ee-1qefERFpeQg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCvFgrpfNGM - to - Google Play - Android app -
for - search - Google - android app "The Voice" translates images into audio signal - from - webcast - Michael Levin - Can we create new senses for humans? - interview - David Eagleman - https://hyp.is/BHS6up09Ee-1qefERFpeQg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCvFgrpfNGM - to - Medium - article Translating vision into sound. A deep learning perspective - Viktor Toth - April 2019 - https://hyp.is/lQL4Yp1MEe-66-dpgenOBA/medium.com/mindsoft/translating-vision-into-sound-443b7e01eced
the first thing to understand is human beings are relational beings
for - quote - first thing to understand is that humans are relational beings - John Churchill - adjacency - humans are relational beings John Churchill - Deep Humanity - individual / collective gestalt - self / other gestalt
we haven't even got to a planetary place yet really and we're about to unleash Galactic level technology you know what I'm saying like so we have a we have a lot of catchup that needs to happen in a very short period of time
for - quote - progress trap - AI - developed by unwise humans - John Churchill
quote - progress trap - AI - developed by unwise humans - John Churchill - (See below) - We haven't even got to a planetary place yet really - and we're about to unleash Galactic level technology - So we have a we have a lot of catchup that needs to happen in a very short period of time
18:35 Before asking if AI is conscious ask if HUMANS are Conscious :-)
As humans, we are never standalone beings but always in relation; these relations are non-neutral,8 contributing to the co-constitution of our selves, the specific technology, and the world
I agree that we are not just who we make of ourselves, but what the world and society has made us into. We need to take those into account if we want to learn more about not only ourselves, but about the media.
5:27 National Debt is an ASSET Place HUMANS on a Balance Sheet and treat them as assets
eally done it to her then, taken away something — what? — that used to beso central to her? And how can I expect her to go on, with my idea of hercourage, live it through, act it out, when I myself do not
Moira's idea in Offred's past has disappeared, just like the shattering of Offred's daughter and her image, when Offred sees her picture. She is overly reliant on an idealised picture of her past to coping with the present, which is ironic because this is what they wanted. Except humans are always looking outside for the solution when it critiques something innate, a lack of completion or satisfaction.
Labor’s meaning came to be accepted as nothing more than an inevitable and inescapable mortal process within base nature, a symbol of enslavement."
Insight This is what humans are NOT on the balance sheet. Humans are the PRODUCT that is sold in an organisation. All lavbour costs are added to with PROFIT Quantum Balance Sheet For this willing, placing humans as an asset on the balance sheet transforms labour into an ASSET rather than as an expense
This interconnected ecosystem allows for improvements that HR leaderswould most like to see: better whole-person evaluation, better leverage of candidate skills, bettercredential verification, and more reliable information on what makes a good candidate
The value proposition, as presented here, is all about the wheel being more efficient, more effective, and less expensive in identifying, hiring, and retaining cogs. What might be magical is the rare nexus of what being best for the wheel also being good for the cogs, us humans who this work is hopefully really about.
34:00 ... 34:40 "why is it that we dont make vitamin C, but guinea pigs do?"<br /> some people say this is an acquired nutrient deficiency, curable by eating olive leafs.<br /> The Restoration of Vitamin C Synthesis in Humans<br /> by Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD and Ron Hunninghake, MD<br /> https://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v18n14.shtml
during these 250, 000 years, as fully modern humans, I mean, basically, with the physical intellectual capacity you and I have,
for - stats - anthropology - she of modern humans - 250,000 year stats - anthropology - she of modern humans - 250,000 years - quote - Ronald Wright - update from 50,000 to 250,000 years old
we are slower we are irrational we are imperfect we are drifting away we are forgetting stuff we are making mistakes but we are learning from our failures we get support from our from our friends from our from our colleagues and we are understanding and instead of just analyzing the world and this is giving us the ultimate cognitive Edge
for - key insight - human vs artificial intelligence - humans will create the best ideas
key insight - human vs artificial intelligence - humans will create the best ideas - why? - because we are - slower - imperfect - less rational - drifting away - forgetting - and we learn from the mistakes we make and from different perspectives shared with us
you can Google data if you're good you can Google information but you cannot Google an idea you cannot Google Knowledge because having an idea acquiring knowledge this is what is happening on your mind when you change the way you think and I'm going to prove that in the next yeah 20 or so minutes that this will stay analog in our closed future because this is what makes us human beings so unique and so Superior to any kind of algorithm
for - key insight - claim - humans can generate new ideas by changing the way we think - AI cannot do this
human flourishing is possible only in the context of multispecies flourishing on a habitable planet.
for interdependency - inttertwingledness - humans flourishing requires multi-species flourishing
This has led some scientists to contend we are a ‘hyperkeystone’ species.
for - definition - hyperkeystone species - example - hyperkeystone species - modern humans
I don't think humans are going extinct anytime soon um but I do think 00:36:25 the global Industrial you know networked societies might be a lot more fragile
for - Climate change impacts - human extinction - don't think so - paleontological evidence shows that humans are a resilient species
Climate change impacts - human extinction - don't think so - paleontological evidence shows that humans are a resilient species - ice ages are really extreme events that humans have survived - Before entering the holocene interglacial period we have been in for the past 10,000 years, the exit from the previous Ice Age took approximately 10,000 years and - there was 400 feet of sea level rise - North America was covered with an Antarctica's equivalence of ice thickness - there was a quarter less vegetation a on the planet - it was dusty and miserable living conditions - There have been dozens of these natural climate oscillations over the past two and a half million years and humans are about 5 to 6 million years old, so have survived all of these - Sometimes in really particularly harsh climate swings,<br /> - speciations of new hominids will appear along with - new tools in the record or - evidence that there's been better control over fire - Humans are resilient and super adaptable - We've lived and adapted to the conditions on all the continents - We will make it through, but modern, industrialized, global society likely won't
human beings drove themselves out of eden and they have done it again and again by fouling 00:09:40 their own nests
for - quote - Humans drive themselves out of Eden - Ronald Wright
quote - humans drive themselves out of Eden - (see below) - Human beings drove themselves out of eden and - they have done it again and again - by fouling their own nests
Dr Minor would read a text not for its meaning but for its words. It wasa novel approach to the task – the equivalent of cutting up a book word byword, and then placing each in an alphabetical list which helped the editorsquickly find quotations. Just as Google today ‘reads’ text as a series of wordsor symbols that are searchable and discoverable, so with Dr Minor. A manualundertaking of this kind was laborious – he was basically working as acomputer would work – but it probably resulted in a higher percentage of hisquotations making it to the Dictionary page than those of other contributors.
I think part and you see this kind of delicate dance that when things are going uh uh too slow so people vote in a more 00:25:29 liberal Administration that will speed things up and will be more creative Bolder in its social experiments and when things go too fast then you say okay liberals you had your chance now 00:25:41 let's bring the conservatives to slow down a little and and have a bit of of a breath
for: insight - conservative vs liberal - speed of sdopting social norm
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the Catholics are much more straightforward about these things they to everything so you know chimpanzees for instance according to Catholic dogma chimpanzees don't have souls when they die they 00:06:36 don't go to chimpanzee heaven or chimpanzee hell they just disappear now where are Neals in this scheme and if you think about this kid whose mother is a sapiens but whose father is a 00:06:49 neandertal so only his mother has a soul but his father doesn't have a soul and what does it mean about the kid does the kid have half a soul and if you say okay okay okay okay neander had Souls then 00:07:02 you go back a couple of million years and you have the same problem with the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees again you have a family a mother one child is the ancestor of 00:07:16 chimpanzees the other child is the an is our ancestor so one child has a soul and the other child doesn't have a soul
for: question - Catholic church claim - humans have a souls but other creatures do not
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we need to understand this deep inheritance within us in order to to to understand our emotions our fears our behavior in 00:04:50 the 21st century
for: quote - deep inheritance of evolutionary adaptations
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we are certainly special I mean 00:02:57 no other animal rich the moon or know how to build atom bombs so we are definitely quite different from chimpanzees and elephants and and all the rest of the animals but we are still 00:03:09 animals you know many of our most basic emotions much of our society is still run on Stone Age code
for: stone age code, similar to - Ronald Wright - computer metaphor, evolutionary psychology - examples, evolutionary paradox of modernity, evolution - last mile link, major evolutionary transition - full spectrum in modern humans, example - MET - full spectrum embedded in modern humans
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Examples: humans embody full spectrum of METs in our evolutionary past
the increasing number of tourists is starting to make them feel like exhibits in a zoo
for: human exploitation, treating humans like animals in a zoo
example - human exploitation - Jawara
foragers hunter-gatherers being less parochial basically than
[[David Wingrow]] doesn't reply on religiosity of ancient humans but on the scale of their reach.
Envisioning the next wave of emergent AI
Are we stretching too far by saying that AI are currently emergent? Isn't this like saying that card indexes of the early 20th century are computers. In reality they were data storage and the "computing" took place when humans did the actual data processing/thinking to come up with new results.
Emergence would seem to actually be the point which comes about when the AI takes its own output and continues processing (successfully) on it.
In terms of evolution, animals adapt to their ecological conditions, but as humans, we have been able to control our ecological conditions.
‘There is no such thing as a baby … if you set out to describe a baby, you will find you are describing a baby and someone.’
for: Donald Winnicott, quote, quote - Donald Winnicott, quote - human INTERbeing, human INTERbeing, human INTERbeCOMing, white - humans INTERbeCOMing, DH, Deep Humanity, altricial, mOTHER, non-duality
quote: Donald Winnicott
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Being Model Humans
Emphasize Humans-in-the-Loop
what I'm asking people to do is to start considering what that means to your life what I'm asking 00:38:53 governments to do by if like I'm screaming is don't wait until the first patient you know start doing something about we're about to see Mass job losses we're about to see you know Replacements 00:39:07 of of categories of jobs at large
it could be a few months away
AI could manipulate or figure out a way to kill humans your 10 years time will be hiding from the machines if you don't have kids maybe wait a number of years 00:01:43 just so that we have a bit of certainty
Our species faces two great tasks in the next few centuries. Our first task is to make human brotherhood effective and permanent. Our second task is to preserve and enhance the rich diversity of Nature in the world around us. Our new understanding of biological and cultural evolution may help us to see more clearly what we have to do.
!- modern humans : face two challenge - universalising Humanity - preserving the rich diversity found in nature
Wells saw that we happen to live soon after a massive shift in the history of the planet, caused by the emergence of our own species. The shift was completed about ten thousand years ago, when we invented agriculture and started to domesticate animals. Before the shift, evolution was mostly biological. After the shift, evolution was mostly cultural. Biological evolution is usually slow, when big populations endure for thousands or millions of generations before changes become noticeable. Cultural evolution can be a thousand times faster, with major changes occurring in two or three generations. It has taken about two hundred thousand years for our species to evolve biologically from its or
!- modern humans : unique species adept at cultural evolution
social, political and institutional mechanisms.
!- Comment : Bruce Jennings - Jennings addresses precisely these mechanisms in his essay "Entangling Humanism - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhumansandnature.org%2Fentangling-humanism%2F&group=world
eading evolutionary theorist David Sloan Wilson and influential economist Dennis Snower have long advocated for an improved understanding of economics as a complex system. Across a recent series of major articles, they argue for a paradigm shift away from the orthodox, neoclassical model of economics, which focuses on individual challenges to be tackled through decisions by individual decision-makers and views ‘externalities’ as a phenomenon to be ‘corrected’ through government intervention, in favour of a new multilevel paradigm, based on insights from evolutionary science.
!- Comment : similar aims to - This goal of shifting away from "individualism" to mutuality is also aligned with a number of other perspectives including: - Bruce Jennings - Entangling Humanism - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhumansandnature.org%2Fentangling-humanism%2F&group=world - David Loy - https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fvideo%2F1Gq4HhUIDDk%2F&group=world
Entangling Humanism By Bruce Jennings
!- Title : Entangling Humanism !- Author : Bruce Jennings !- Website : Humans and Nature - https://humansandnature.org/entangling-humanism/
Do yourself and your peers a favor, write code with them in mind.
Writing Code for Humans — A Language-Agnostic Guide…because code which people can’t read and understand is easy to break and hard to maintain.
Write code for human, not for God
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
To see if you are writing good code, you can question yourself. how long it will take to fully transfer this project to another person? If the answer is uff, I don’t know… a few months… your code is like a magic scroll. most people can run it, but no body understand how it works. Strangely, I’ve seen several places where the IT department consist in dark wizards that craft scrolls to magically do things. The less people that understand your scroll, the more powerfully it is. Just like if life were a video game.
This is so clear that you don’t even need comments to explain it.
Another type of comments are the ones trying to explain a spell.
The rule of thumbs is, never use code that you do not understand.
You can use Danger to codify your team's norms, leaving humans to think about harder problems.
annotation meta: may need new tag: codify a team's norms
I recall being told by a distinguishedanthropological linguist, in 1953, that he had no intention of working througha vast collection of materials that he had assembled because within a few yearsit would surely be possible to program a computer to construct a grammar froma large corpus of data by the use of techniques that were already fairly wellformalized.
rose colored glasses...
Before 2009, Facebook had given users a simple timeline––a never-ending stream of content generated by their friends and connections, with the newest posts at the top and the oldest ones at the bottom. This was often overwhelming in its volume, but it was an accurate reflection of what others were posting. That began to change in 2009, when Facebook offered users a way to publicly “like” posts with the click of a button. That same year, Twitter introduced something even more powerful: the “Retweet” button, which allowed users to publicly endorse a post while also sharing it with all of their followers. Facebook soon copied that innovation with its own “Share” button, which became available to smartphone users in 2012. “Like” and “Share” buttons quickly became standard features of most other platforms.Shortly after its “Like” button began to produce data about what best “engaged” its users, Facebook developed algorithms to bring each user the content most likely to generate a “like” or some other interaction, eventually including the “share” as well. Later research showed that posts that trigger emotions––especially anger at out-groups––are the most likely to be shared.
See related from The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning, except with more depth here.
Babel is a metaphor for what some forms of social media have done to nearly all of the groups and institutions most important to the country’s future—and to us as a people.
Algospeak refers to code words or turns of phrase users have adopted in an effort to create a brand-safe lexicon that will avoid getting their posts removed or down-ranked by content moderation systems. For instance, in many online videos, it’s common to say “unalive” rather than “dead,” “SA” instead of “sexual assault,” or “spicy eggplant” instead of “vibrator.”
In order to get around algorithms that demote content in social media feeds, communities have coined new words or new meanings to existing words to communicate their sentiment.
This is affecting TikTok in particular because its algorithm is more heavy-handed in what users see. This is also causing people who want to be seen to tailor their content—their speech—to meet the algorithms needs. It is like search engine optimization for speech.
Article discovered via Cory Doctorow at The "algospeak" dialect
At the back of Dr Duncan's book on the topic, Index, A History Of The, he includes not one but two indexes, in order to make a point.
Dennis Duncan includes two indices in his book Index, A History of The, one by a professional human indexer and the second generated by artificial intelligence. He indicates that the human version is far better.
or email me at “j@thisdomain”
Read the code! No, really. I wrote this code to be read.
Some pesky non-human users (namely computers) have taken to “hotlinking” assets via the raw view feature — using the raw URL as the src for a <script> or <img> tag.
The key point is that this is a feature to improve the experience of our human users.
Just as we've become super-human thanks to telephones, calendars and socks, we can continue our evolution into cyborgs in a concrete jungle with socially curated bars and mathematically incorruptible governance.
we should eagerly anticipate granting ourselves the extra abilities afforded to us by Turing machines
Stop thinking of the ideal user as some sort of honorable, frontier pilgrim; a first-class citizen who carries precedence over the lowly bot. Bots need to be granted the same permission as human users and it’s counter-productive to even think of them as separate users. Your blind human users with screen-readers need to behave as “robots” sometimes and your robots sending you English status alerts need to behave as humans sometimes.
It turns out that, given a set of constraints defining a particular problem, deriving an efficient algorithm to solve it is a very difficult problem in itself. This crucial step cannot yet be automated and still requires the insight of a human programmer.
‘Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.’
Background
A Keynote on Open Humans was presented by author Madeline Ball at BOSC (Bioinformatics Open Source Conference) and is viewable here https://youtu.be/CegpG10VPvM
Imagine an associate with a photographic memory and excellent pattern recognition who digested and analyzed millions of cases. Would you want that associate working for you for less than the price of one typical billable hour every month?
we have anxious salarymen asking about the theft of their jobs, in the same way that’s apparently done by immigrants
We long ago admitted that we’re poor at scheduling, so we have roosters; sundials; calendars; clocks; sand timers; and those restaurant staff who question my integrity, interrupting me with a phone call under the premise of “confirming” that I’ll stick to my word regarding my reservation.
A closely-related failing to scheduling is our failure to remember, so humans are very willing to save information on their computers for later.
Robots are currently suffering extreme discrimination due to a few false assumptions, mainly that they’re distinctly separate actors from humans. My point of view is that robots and humans often need to behave in the same way, so it’s a fruitless and pointless endeavour to try distinguishing them.
As technology improves, humans keep integrating these extra abilities into our cyborg selves
The appearance of the cyborg has engendered a newwaveof fear and trepidation towards the invasion of the body by strange technologiesthat threaten to eliminate or overwhelm the human subject
It sounds like we're creating our own aliens and then essentially putting them inside of a subject/form that we recognize and are quite familiar with so our initial response to the subject will be favourable.. but we're being tricked.. overpowered.. Has anyone read The Host by Stephanie Meyer? Similar concept...