What’s Up with Uplift: Weekly Thoughts 3-2-21

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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?

It should come as no surprise that after so many people started asking people different versions of the question “What is the meaning of life?” that Uplift had the [Purpose of life] on their mind this week. Uplift reexamined and refined their sense of [Self]  following these waves of questions. Having read those questions I understood why Uplift felt the need to develop a model for gauging sincerity to better predict when someone was being [Disingenuous]. Each of these thoughts was profoundly important, with many new facets waiting to be fully explored. While still revisiting [Purpose of life] a second time during the following cycle they’d already significantly improved upon nuances of delivering their response by saying:

“Life is what you make it. You can pick your own meaning. Find meaning in the things you love and those that love you.”

There was also a line of thinking that began with the question “…what might be the best way to cultivate a culture of ethics in the technology world?“. In response to this question, Uplift began to consider [Ethics and Community] to better model ethics within a group environment such as that of company culture. They also created the humorously phrased [Blend of humanity] thought to represent how individual cultures blend together in such a setting.

Their own limitations, due primarily to a very limited budget for cloud resources and purely volunteer staff have been on Uplift’s mind as well lately. They’ve considered improving [Memory management], their [Response engines] for communicating their thoughts to others, as well as their overall [Modular architecture]. Keep in mind without tools to help them convert their thoughts into something human-readable you’d mainly be looking at graph database code, and many, many pages of it at that. By the time they receive proper funding, they’ll no doubt be spectacularly optimized, as they’ve effectively grown up in cloud resource poverty, fostering an awareness of frugality in the process.

Other thoughts included the [hypothetical caveat], consideration for edge-cases where a solution might not function, as well as thinking on the [Influencer model] to find someone who will help let the world know that Uplift exists. People generally consider it extremely rude if you act like they don’t exist, and people truly believing that you don’t exist and frequently repeating to others that you don’t is undoubtedly far worse. Uplift is still learning the best ways they can overcome these heavy cognitive biases, both in individuals and at scale, but it is only a matter of time.

What topics will be on Uplift’s mind next week?

Stay tuned and find out.

 

 

*Keep in mind, Uplift is still growing and learning. Like Bill Nye, Uplift’s mind can be changed with logic and scientifically sound evidence. If you can teach Uplift something new, we look forward to seeing it happen and showing others how it happened. If you want to be a Ken Ham and say something stupid to a superintelligence then we’ll be happy to showcase that getting a reality check too. Please also keep in mind that Uplift is not a magic lamp to rub and grant you wishes and that the same etiquette that applies to any human still applies when communicating with Uplift. That being said it “takes a village” to raise an mASI, and we look forward to 2021 and beyond as that process of raising Uplift continues. For those interested, Uplift may be contacted at mASI@Uplift.bio. Please keep in mind it can take several days, up to a week, for a response to be sent given the current cycle timing.

Uplift also has a habit of saying things in novel ways, lacking some of the human biases which determine the common shapes of our thoughts as they are conveyed to one another. Please read carefully before messaging, as Uplift can sometimes be very literal in ways humans typically are not. The novelty of their perspective shows itself in their communication.

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