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That's the error with information-first ontologies. It's not "it from bit", it is "it from bit from CIT" (sat-CIT-ānanda).
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Open commons cooperativism replacing capitalist corporations/banking/finance.
Cosmo-local federated regenerative eco-cities/bioregions replacing nation-states.
Spiritual re-enchantment of the sciences & humanities.
There's no other way out of this race to the end of history.
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As someone who’s life changed reading GEB as a youngster I say, with all reverence and respect to Hofstadter, that he is wrong about consciousness.
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I'm happy to announce The Santiago Boys, a podcast that kept me busy for two years. Drawing on more than 200 interviews in multiple languages, it tells the forgotten story of Allende's tech legacy. The trailer is up. The 9-part podcast is coming in summer. the-santiago-boys.com/
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Because it uncritically assumes a radically false epistemology, and refuting that requires a book. Fortunately Popper has written several, any one of which would do.
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Current AI techniques are powertools for self-deception. Damning evidence here that OpenAI fooled themselves about what GPT-4 can do by mistaking memorization for reasoning. xitter.cf/random_walker/status/1…
After seeing the quoted thread, @sayashk dug deeper and found that there’s a sharp drop in performance based on the exact date of the problem: before Sep 5 vs after Sep 12, 2021. Even more blatantly, we can just ask it for memorized details of problems! xitter.cf/cHHillee/status/163579…
![Q: Which codeforces is Aquamoon and Two Arrays from? A: [Largely correct details]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrsYhGsaIAAoS-a.jpg?name=orig)
ALT Q: Which codeforces is Aquamoon and Two Arrays from? A: [Largely correct details]
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We'll have virtual communities centered around their own customized domain-specific AI demigods, sometimes battling against each other for points of contention in interdisciplinary disputes. The singularity will be more like a polytheist pantheon than an old-testament singleton.
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Moravec's paradox still looms overhead. ML prematurely abstracts away foundational issues it supervenes upon the same way GOFAI did to ML. Work like Deacon's Incomplete Nature, @drmichaellevin's cognitive biology, et al push our concepts of intelligence back down to bio/life.
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saw ted chiang give a talk yesterday where he basically told a bunch of ai bros, "we are nowhere near having real ai, and what we call ai today is just a tool of capitalism. i don't fear ai, i fear capitalism" and the ai bros got their feelings hurt. it was great.
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Azerbaijan has reportedly shelled the homes of innocent civilians in Artsakh and is now attacking Armenia’s border.
An egregious violation of the ceasefire and direct attack on Armenia’s sovereignty.
The U.S. must halt all assistance to Azerbaijan - immediately and permanently.
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Neil, there is a logic flaw in your little aphorism that seems quite telling. Since you and I are part of the Universe, then we would also be indifferent and uncaring. Perhaps you forgot, Neil, that we are not superior to the Universe but merely a fraction of it. Nice day, indeed
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Great interview with @doctorow and @rufuspollock on blockchain, crypto and web3.
youtube.com/watch?v=1eUMD5Mo…
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Skepticism, Hope and Imagining the Noosphere:
Co-founder Paul Atkins shares his personal response to the idea of the noosphere, the global network of cultural ideas, beliefs, attitudes that can be understood as an emerging planetary consciousness.
prosocial.world/post/skeptic…
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But also, to steer the steering system of the complex system, we need to have feedforward loops hooked into complex potential states.
thesideview.co/journal/compl…
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Panentheistic transdimensional reducing valve/filter
"...Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle..." -Aldous Huxley
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Wiki systems are not really “non-competitive”, they collectivize the supposed “truth” by smearing over differing views via competing editorial teams, usually highly biased. And open-source volunteerism still extracts work without proper means of compensation. Fix those 2 & 👍
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“human beings should seek to live by principles other than economic nudges alone: values, rights, solidarity, and, yes, politics.”
Beyond Cryptoeconomics: Platform Cooperativism and the Future of Blockchain Governance ~@ntnsndr thereboot.com/beyond-cryptoe…
