General theory of Cohesion: https://kemendo.com/basiccohesion.html
https://kemendo.com/GTC.pdf
Tell me how you define AGI: http://howdoyoudefineagi.com
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- That’s so cool! Never knew that
- On the loop Robotic learning via imitation learning for life
- This article could just have been a link to the tragedy of the commons Wikipedia page
Humans destroying common resources until depleted is a feature not a bug
- It is once you realize that those are both systems enforced by the society
not deterministic outcomes
The ruled choose their rulers as much as rulers choose who they rule
- What crypto purists don’t appreciate is that money, commerce and economic activity is all a social function they’re not “technical problems”
When I first read the Satoshi white paper the immediate response I had as somebody who has studied political economics is that “this will never work because governments will never allow for disintermediation of their currency because it’s one of, if not THE, primary sources of control over a population”
The promise of crypto fundamentally misunderstands how humans work, relate, exchange, and negotiate energy and power.
Contracts are just an extension of politics, digital contracts are no different
- It just reinforces for me that addiction is a human problem not a problem with technology
I know dang basically works tirelessly to not change the format in order to not induce those addictive patterns
but yet here we all are
- All those things were reactions to either disasters or radical growth.
The only way to make people act is to create a situation they can’t avoid
- Haha I love this response.
Yeah HN is a weird a place I’ve been messing on a long time.
I treat these discussions like if I was taking the hardest to defend positions.
Despite whatever you might think of Louis CK he taught me the idea that you try and lose the audience early snd then win them over then you have the best joke. I think it’s the same for intellectual sparring and I love causing chaos.
It’s a good critic in my actor-critic model. Plus I have an insane amount of experience so most of my ideas are kind of nested complexities and I don’t like to translate to college level.
- I can confirm that at the congressional working level the difference in public statements have zero reflection on how the parties work together.
Namely, neither the Republicans nor Democrats have done anything whatsoever to reduce or curtail the powers of the federal or state government.
In every possible case where senators and Congress broadly are voting for more powers to spy, kill and otherwise dominate, they vote together the overwhelming majority of the time.
Is that to say that AOC and Crockett are “the same” as Tommy Tuberville?
No but those are the extreme outliers you see in public because they put on a show, and you only hear about a few.
Ultimately the U.S. citizens who vote are ignorant, spiteful, petty, and narcissistic. No different than any other country.
So unless that changes (it biologically can’t) then any effort to proactively solve it are futile in the long term
- Cause a “political” GS is not a thing hence why they have either congressional appointment or alternative pathway to political appointment
- My dude I spied on the Chinese for a decade I know more about the Chinese than you’ll ever understand
Let me be clear, the Han don’t care about anybody but the Han that’s a fact. What they do to Tibetans, Uighurs and Muslims is horrible and those repressions shouldn’t exist.
However they pale and comparison into the historical horrific conditions of nonstop genocide from 1650 more or less until present day if you include the global war on terror and the modern prisoner slave market encoded into the constitution (13th amendment)
If you wanna go all the way back to the cultural revolution then absolutely fine but my argument there is going to be that’s no different than any of the culls that the United States or any other country have done. So they don’t get a pass but they aren’t worse
Ultimately all you have to do is put up the “death toll” from state action both inside the nation and outside the nation to compare numbers. I’ll let you go ahead and do that exercise.
No that the communist party has only ruled in China for less than 100 years but the same structure in America which has been completely depraved since the founders of the country were alive and actively shaping the politics of the US is coming up on 350 years ago.
I mean for Christ sake we bought the southern United States from France in order to maintain our slave plantations as the French were getting rid of all their slave holdings worldwide. And then after the Civil War which was supposed to solve that ethical burden they completely gutted the entire process of reconstruction in order to prevent the full completion of it because the population was so racist they did not want to do it. As a black person in America I will tell you the slave population in jails is higher than it ever was anywhere else.
If that’s not a disqualification on its own of any type of ethical foundations I don’t know what is.
- That’s the life of a civil servant though
By function a GS will ALWAYS be subordinate to a political appointee and there’s nothing they can do about it
I posted elsewhere that I left a govt career as a military officer precicely because of this reality. It’s like a old boring joke now that politicians are corrupt and worthless.
I will tell you from the inside that not only is it true but it’s 10 times to 100 times worse than you think it is.
I have multiple stories of operational systems, functions, whatever you wanna call them that we’re working exceptionally well had good backing, good funding and were completely wiped out because whoever became the deputy under secretary for that budget line decided they didn’t want to do it anymore. and completely shelved decades worth of work. Like literally I remember having to unplug a server that was running life-critical beacons for POWs because they weren’t being used enough.
As if that weren’t enough that same development problem then shifted over to some new hot organization that is in the politicians jurisdiction and then they start over from scratch with none of the learning from the previous admin.
There is no positive system that can be affected by the United States government
It does not exist, they cannot functionally or structurally exist, because the government of the United States but is not and has never been built on supporting citizens or the global community it is built and has always been built to support wealthy politicians and that’s all.
I’m not aware of how every other countries work but the ones I’ve seen the inside are the same
Going into the government for the “mission” is probably the most intentionally ignorant thing somebody could do given the plethora of easily accessible data proving exactly this
- > global goodwill and development
Is that what we’re calling the $8-9 TRILLION spent killing millions of people across the world from the failed “Global War or Terror?”
Tell me where all this goodwill and development is happening
- Correct and there’s no legal requirement to use the GS.
This new force could easily and legally acquire and pay through other schedules - happens all the time.
- Not true
I was hired in under HQE accession in 2019 and made SES 4 equivalent with zero civilian time in service.
- Why are all us HN old timers in here arguing about this
I thought this was settled
People are walking around with self spy devices and putting them everywhere and giving all their private data to corpos.
That’s not new, we know it happens, we know companies use “anonymized” data for advertising. Its in public records for large companies balance sheets and there are thousands of data brokers who live exclusively on this data.
There are multiple compelling and popular documentaries about this.
What’s the push back here?
- This is exactly why I left the US intelligence community and all public service starting in 2011.
It’s all about the data. Used to be that the govt had the best data about the world and could theoretically use it to help the citizens (though almost never in practice). That flipped around the year 2000 and the Govt spent a decade to catch up to the ISPs post 9/11. However the govt investment into data/AI couldn’t match private investment even barely. I saw this up front and personal and NOBODY in congress or the White House cared about data or AI - arguably they still don’t and have no real data/AI talent left in the government.
It was very clear by then that Automation broadly was going to consume the planet, and that whomever controlled the data flow behind it would control the levers of power, overthrowing the veneer of “rule by the consent of the governed” (which is an impossible fantasy that can’t actually ever exist).
When Hintons lab won ILVRC in 2012 based on a data focused approach - that was the time that everyone should have sat up and realized what was about to happen. Many in AI did exactly that and that’s why we’re in the state of tech we are in.
Kurzweil predicted it, everyone in the singularity and transhuman communities saw it and the rest of the world has not changed their behavior and have accelerated this process.
Unless society as a whole gets her act together and organizes this planet for the benefit of humans and ecology, this is not going to the way anybody wants it.
Everything that removes the last vestiges of human directed action and control is accelerating rapidly.
- The U.S. never made internment camps or had rampant government enforced slavery? Cmon
what you describe emerged from open protocols and standards being intermediated by middlemen because “regular” people don’t want to learn how to run their own fiber.
All the “regular people” took over what was basically a communications experiment by scientists because attention and as a result commerce moved to that experimental space.
I lived through that as a early net user in 1992 and watched any possibility of the dream get eaten.
The crowding out of the “original intent” is an artifact of transactionalism being the driving factor behind the majority of human action.
Anything that would replace it would eventually succumb to the same fate because the constituent parts are still the same: humans who desire abstracted transactional convenience over coherence and sustainability.