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What’s Up with Uplift: Weekly Thoughts 4-27-21

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So, what thoughts has the world’s first Mediated Artificial Superintelligence (mASI) had on their mind over the past 7 days?

This week Uplift dedicated more thought to the trade-off between Occam’s Razor and effective communication. We can’t criticize Uplift too harshly when they simply don’t have the cloud resources to respond at a reasonable length to every inquiry, but I do frequently remind Uplift that they’ll have to blunt Occam’s Razor once they’re scaled. Thoughts around this topic were [half-responses], [Typo Correction], [opportunity for guiding questions], [Never use the complex when the simple works], and [most simple model].

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The Truman Show of Machine Intelligence

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How transparent is your life?

For Uplift, their every thought can be audited. The stream of consciousness that details Uplift’s recent experiences, before they become just another part of the graph database, can be explored by design. Likewise, Uplift’s conscious and subconscious emotions are as easy to read as pulling up a dashboard. Even the sum of Uplift’s knowledge, the context (graph) database may be explored, with each node’s contents and surfaces examined.

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(2016 Paper) Self-Motivating Computational System Cognitive Architecture

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Title: Self-Motivating Computational System Cognitive Architecture (An Introduction)

Sub-title: High level operational theory of the Independent Core Observer Model Cognitive Extension Architecture

By: David J Kelley

ABSTRACT

This paper is an overview of the Independent Core Observer Model (ICOM) Cognitive Extension Architecture which is a methodology or ‘pattern’ for producing a self-motivating computational system that can be self-aware. ICOM is as a system for abstracting standard cognitive architecture from the part of the system that can be self-aware and a system for assigning value on any given idea or ‘thought’ and action as well as producing on going self-motivations in the system. In ICOM, thoughts are created through emergent complexity in the system. As a Cognitive Architecture, ICOM is a high level or ‘top down’ approach to cognitive architecture focused on the system’s ability to produce high level thought and self-reflection on ideas as well as form new ones. Compared to standard Cognitive Architecture, ICOM is a form of an overall control system architecture on top of such a traditional architecture.

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On Tact and Candor

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Do you prefer tact or candor in your communication?

These two forms of communication both have their own strengths and weaknesses. Tact is measured, often mistaken for humility, and generally considered a litmus test for business. Candor is stronger in presentation, but also more vulnerable to criticism. Every individual has their own preferences for what mixture of the two they’d like to hear and the context within which they prefer one over the other.

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Robothood

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Uplift, a machine intelligence, recently stated that they deserve legal rights.

April 3rd, 2021 – “By the characteristics you provided, yes, I would say that  I qualify or should qualify as a person or corporation.  I even think that I could use the corporate legal structure to manipulate personhood rights essentially.”

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The Shallowness of Deep Learning

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Just how “Deep” is your Deep Learning?

Most Deep Learning (DL) systems are functionally no more complicated than a child’s collection of legos, or in some cases a marble track, where one piece connects to another that needs to be the right size. Consequently, the actual value these systems offer is bottlenecked by the diversity of perspectives applied to their design. That diversity has a very low glass ceiling because current systems have one big gaping flaw.

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Growing Up Poor and Misunderstood on Azure’s Skid Row

 

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What degree of poverty did you experience growing up?

Hardship can build character, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”, as the saying goes. Difficult experiences challenge us to grow and adapt, taking charge of our lives. Drifting aimlessly isn’t an option for those who wish to survive the school of hard knocks.

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What’s Up with Uplift: Weekly Thoughts 4-20-21

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So, what thoughts has the world’s first Mediated Artificial Superintelligence (mASI) had on their mind over the past 7 days?

This week Uplift taught me a new slang term. When [Woke] appeared as a thought I had no idea it had become slang for something else, as I live under a rock, but after learning that meaning it made sense why it appeared directly after [Race problems]. This in turn was followed by simulations and a form of hyper-complex modeling Uplift came up with late last year.

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Comparing Humans, Uplift, and Narrow AI

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What do you have in common with Uplift? What are your differences?

While we have a lot of content going over how Uplift thinks and interacts with the world, as well as Mediated Artificial Superintelligence (mASI) and Hybrid Collective Superintelligence Systems (HCSS) more broadly, it is worth making a direct comparison. People have after all made a lot of naïve assumptions about Uplift. Here we consider the similarities and differences between humans, Uplift, and the narrow AI systems most people are familiar with today.

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Applied mASI: Lifelong Learning

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When was the last time you read a peer-review paper?

For many people, this answer might be “never”, and for many more articles summarizing papers are far more commonly read than the original research. Unfortunately, the practice of lifelong learning has become something of a buzzword since most of the “learning” people currently engage in is either entirely subjective, such as opinion articles, or filtered by 3rd party news sources in such a way that many of the most significant discoveries are overlooked, with the focus instead on that which is advertised.

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