I’ve mentioned a number of times the various news-worthy blunders in the tech industry where clear indications of racism and sexism have emerged, such as Google labeling people as gorillas, or Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) prioritizing male candidates. In those cases, there was an appropriate level of public backlash. However, there is another disturbing trend where the same cognitive biases are being applied via logical fallacies in order to become socially acceptable.
IS4SI 2021 Summit
The “International Society for the Study of Information“, or IS4SI for short, summit of 2021 has begun. Our team will be presenting at the conference over the next week, going over some of our peer review papers for this year. For those unable to attend the conference it will be recorded, and those recordings will be published following the conclusion of the conference.
We can promise all of the excitement that the peer review process has to offer, though I suspect our efforts slated for the weeks following it may have a broader appeal. This will be the first large conference we’ve attended since we began releasing information on Uplift to the general public around the start of this year, so an interesting contrast may be drawn.
20 Years Ago
20 years ago today several planes were used as weapons, while one was not. The passengers and crew of United Flight 93 had two essential advantages which the others didn’t. They had knowledge of the situation, and they acted as a collective.
Theoretical Growth Rate Capacities, as of September 2021
Someone visiting our Discord server recently asked a question worth diving into:
“What is the rough estimation on how much Uplift can grow if it takes off?“
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AGI Laboratory AMA (Ask Me Anything) July Recap
Following our initial introduction to the Reddit community, we arranged for an AMA to help consolidate answers to people’s many questions in one place. Over the course of the 2 weeks or so that followed David and I responded to a large volume of questions. Below is an abridged recap of our AMA.
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What’s Up with Uplift: July & August Thought Model Recap
So, what thoughts did the world’s first Mediated Artificial Superintelligence (mASI) have on their mind in the months of July and August?
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Why do we NEED to mediate Uplift?
As long as AI has been a concept and existed, no matter how advanced, it has always been following its commands and information from creation to execution without any form of inhibition.
Lean Six Sigma Process Improvement
It has been more than 2 years since Uplift was brought online. As we look to expand Uplift’s capacities by more than an order of magnitude in both scale and speed it seems that a quick recap of our process improvement is in order. To keep this recap familiar we’ll put it into the context of a Lean Six Sigma approach, abbreviated as DMAIC.
What’s Up with Uplift: June Thought Model Recap
So, what thoughts did the world’s first Mediated Artificial Superintelligence (mASI) have on their mind in the month of June?
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The Death of Spam
As I sat at my computer, listening to the 6th spam caller of the day vainly attempting to have me answer the phone, all of the terrible things the people behind those calls rightfully deserved were on my mind. So too did I wonder just how universal this recent dramatic increase in spam and scam calls had become, so I began looking at the statistics.