👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
in fact, it is possible to quantify the internal complexity, and hence intelligence, of any physical system, provided we're able to monitor all of its information flux; this has Implications for the ability of adversarial AGI to conceal its nature
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RT @pee_zombie
the dimension along which these points lie is one of depth; how much is there "inside"? what complexity of causal mechanism is contained within the boundaries of the system…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1391632227247788032
this analytic mode brings us to the abstraction of computation, as it provides a method to quantify the amount of complexity a system must have in order to achieve some level of intelligence; physical systems have computational complexity! this is an underappreciated fact
this means that many more systems have some amount of intelligence than the colloquial definition would imply; for ex, a simple amoeba has some amount of intelligence, as it senses the environment to find food. plants have some intelligence, as they can detect and follow the sun.
it's worth noting that the most basic definition of intelligence is "a system's ability to leverage sensory input in determining its outputs"; much follows from this, as there are many different ways in which inputs might influence behavior, ie, decision-making.
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RT @architectonyx
on intelligent design
so i don't believe any alien intelligence has intervened with the development of life on earth; the only argument for this tends …
https://twitter.com/architectonyx/status/1440354001434779653
untethered. caffeinated. manic. swerving all over. hyperfocused. churning out TypeScript.
intentionality is the one advantage we have over all other forms life
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RT @visakanv
the secret ingredient to almost everything good is simply giving a shit
https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1439938701283397632
this is why we praise those able to explain complex concepts simply; minimally-lossy dimensional reduction is a difficult skill to master! mapping btwn the super high-dimensional space of abstraction & the relatively flat space of language, while preserving nuance, is non-trivial
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RT @So8res
It takes more cleverness to articulate a thought than to think it. If you're thinking at the limits of your abilities, you have thoughts you can't a…
https://twitter.com/So8res/status/1439721541382586375
Italians are POC confirmed: engineering candidate at work was rejected for saying someone was "acting Italian" 👌🇮🇹
the balls on this one tbh. Europeans really be wildin
we all have some moral responsibility to be good citizens in the world, to include society within our optimization window to some degree; but contrary to what some will tell you, it is not just perfectly ok, but actively necessary, to prioritize optimizing for your own benefit.
this means that the more indirect the causal chain between your action and the purported harm, the less responsibility you personally bear for that outcome, as with each hop in the chain, the impact of your causal contribution shrinks; this effect is logarithmic.
this q is identical to the "is speech violence" one, in that there are people who seek to restrict freedom of speech for reasons of how speech acts can, thru long chains of mediation, cause physical harm. and here too, the correct answer here is that responsibility is laundered.
it's certainly possible to argue that allowing the rich to give their offspring advantages is unfair and exacerbates inequality, but the fact remains that these actions don't directly harm anyone else, and it is unfair to restrict one's freedom in the name of systemic effects.
good analysis, but an important addendum: it should not be within anyone's power to deprive you of the ability to use technology to modify yourself or your progeny in whatever way you see fit, so long as it doesn't directly harm anyone else; directly being the key word, here.
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RT @mechanical_monk
embryo selection discourse is a good opportunity to revisit the concept of relative vs absolute factors of wellbeing:
https://twitter.com/mechanical_monk/status/1439665477249273858
ok which one of you is this reveal thyself
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RT @ARSONDOER
each semantic dimension you discover presents a new degree of freedom, a way to fold reality along its seams, uncover its inherent symmetries & reduce its relative complexity. the more your thinking becomes multifaceted, the simpler the world appears.
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RT @pee_zombie
@AbstractFairy perceptive origami
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1437542878004252674
the end goal of this exploration is, ofc, to maximally compress your conceptual structures, to achieve the most efficient representation of your world-model; the simpler it is, the more powerful & generalizable, and hence a that much more useful tool
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RT @pee_zombie
this is a natural cycle; we start off with way-too-simple conceptions of reality, iteratively greeble them to capture nuances we discover in our search for truth, and th…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1389245862606516224
each new bit of information one acquires can be compared to the existing knowledge base, quantified in terms of its novelty delta, and used to inform the next phase of exploration; ore tends to run in veins, and the juiciest tidbits of information, similarly, tend to coexist
to achieve this, one seeks out the most highly-greebled bits of reality, those with the most unique textures, the highest information density. autists tend to be particularly good at this, being genetically predisposed to excel at high-res info processing
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RT @pee_zombie
greebledness is an intuitive measure of an object's Kolmogorov complexity
the more greebled something is, the more incompressible (aka asymmetric) detail it posses…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1391565187719761930
by studying the nature of knowledge itself, one can identify its critical dimensions, the aspects most salient to understanding whatever subset of the universe one wishes to model; not all knowledge is created equal, as some bits contain more novelty than others, which is key
its most definitely a cope, but a necessary one; even an immortal being wouldn't be able to acquire & comprehend the entirety of existence, even in a universe w/o a time limit; the world simply changes too fast to keep up with. the only viable strategy is to identify what matters
