From f20204b68a5698d5f42e9b2b9da7ec3ef17482be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Austin Fatheree Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 07:00:34 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Updates yudikowski-pirsig-and-alexander-walk-into-a-bar.md Auto commit by GitBook Editor --- a-definition-of-morality.md | 6 +++--- a_definition_of_economics.md | 4 ++-- a_definition_of_immortality.md | 2 +- a_fresh_start/README.md | 4 ++-- yudikowski-pirsig-and-alexander-walk-into-a-bar.md | 4 ++-- 5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/a-definition-of-morality.md b/a-definition-of-morality.md index dc00f88..5064e1d 100644 --- a/a-definition-of-morality.md +++ b/a-definition-of-morality.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Many people will not find satisfaction in this. In a sense we must use it as a p ### On the Duality of Morality -We will find a Moral Authority given to more advanced and complex entities by observing thew world around us. This Moral Authority must always balance with a Moral Responsibility given from the more advanced and complex entities to lesser entities. The reality that any lesser entity may springboard to a new and more complex entity that has never existed before demands this approach. +We will find a Moral Authority given to more advanced and complex entities by observing the world around us. This Moral Authority must always balance with a Moral Responsibility given from the more advanced and complex entities to lesser entities. The reality that any lesser entity may springboard to a new and more complex entity that has never existed before demands this approach. ### On Evil @@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ Evil arises in two ways. The first, when the moral authority threatens from below. -The second, when the moral responsibility gets ignored or is technologicaly impossible. This often manifests in a 'moral dilemma' that we seemingly cannot overcome without committing some evil. +The second, when the moral responsibility gets ignored or is technologically impossible. This often manifests in a 'moral dilemma' that we seemingly cannot overcome without committing some evil. ### On Knowledge -But we do not find ourselves left alone with this evil. We can explain. And we can codify our explanations so that we know. Our minds are universal explainers. And using the tools we have on hand, and the ones we will develop, we should strive to become universal constructors. If becomeing a universal constructor is allowed by the physics of our universe, we should seek the right knowlege to accomplish that end. +But we do not find ourselves left alone with this evil. We can explain. And we can codify our explanations so that we know. Our minds are universal explainers. And using the tools we have on hand, and the ones we will develop, we should strive to become universal constructors. If becoming a universal constructor is allowed by the physics of our universe, we should seek the right knowledge to accomplish that end. ### On Overcoming Evil diff --git a/a_definition_of_economics.md b/a_definition_of_economics.md index 6a022b5..083deb6 100644 --- a/a_definition_of_economics.md +++ b/a_definition_of_economics.md @@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ We define the study of economics as the study of the dynamics of value. We will ### On Money -We define money as a tool. We get to design tools. The money of today has many differences than the money of yesterday and will have more diffences from the money of tomorrow. We will discuss this more, but now I'll simply ask you to set aside your availability bias of greenbacks and banks and the FED and realize that we could implement many different systems of money. +We define money as a tool. We get to design tools. The money of today has many differences than the money of yesterday and will have more differences from the money of tomorrow. We will discuss this more, but now I'll simply ask you to set aside your availability bias of greenbacks and banks and the FED and realize that we could implement many different systems of money. ### On Value Robert Pirsig would call it Quality. Christopher Alexander would call it wholeness. Eliezer Yudkowsky would call it...humanism? Whatever 'it' is, it is value. And we pay for value. Other forces pay for value as well. The actual currency involved in value exchange can vary greatly, but the end goal of the exchange does not vary. The agents desire more value. We will see that this universe ultimately has one goal, the development and expansion of value. -All value is future value. This will hold true until we find a way to overcome time itself. That may happen, but until then, all the value that we will experience resides in the future. Past value has gone and you cannot reconstitut it. You can't 'store' it. Well, you can, but only on certain levels and for certain purposes. Remember that if anyone ever tells you that they have a way for you to 'preserve value for the future' they probably have something to sell you. Don't trust them. +All value is future value. This will hold true until we find a way to overcome time itself. That may happen, but until then, all the value that we will experience resides in the future. Past value has gone and you cannot reconstitute it. You can't 'store' it. Well, you can, but only on certain levels and for certain purposes. Remember that if anyone ever tells you that they have a way for you to 'preserve value for the future' they probably have something to sell you. Don't trust them. One can 'pump water uphill' or store energy in chemical form in rapidly extractable ways, but even pure energy can fluctuate in value drastically under the right circumstances. We should still make 'good bets' on value. Sometimes the universe presents these bets to us as our only option. diff --git a/a_definition_of_immortality.md b/a_definition_of_immortality.md index 4169c28..7979847 100644 --- a/a_definition_of_immortality.md +++ b/a_definition_of_immortality.md @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Secondly, we need to diversify the space that we inhabit in the galaxy. First to ### On Macro-hurdles -Once these we surpase these initial hurdles we will need to work on bigger problems like overcoming accidents. Perhaps by 'backing up' our minds. Then on to active back ups. Etc. +Once these we surpass these initial hurdles we will need to work on bigger problems like overcoming accidents. Perhaps by 'backing up' our minds. Then on to active back ups. Etc. ### On the Distant Unseen diff --git a/a_fresh_start/README.md b/a_fresh_start/README.md index 2213fe5..d2a9dad 100644 --- a/a_fresh_start/README.md +++ b/a_fresh_start/README.md @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ So we must also add into our public ledger a time-based vector of reality. In fa To increase the surface area the most we need to maximize the number of antifragile-stable systems that can emerge. To do this I propose a type of economy that I call **hypercatallaxian**. The word 'catallaxy' derives from the Greek verb katalatto, which means 'to exchange,' or 'to become reconciled with,' or 'to admit into the community,' or,'to make an enemy a friend.'(wikipedia) Economists discuss catallaxy as an emergent property of market economies. We take these principles and build them into the economic system to amplify them, thus, hyper. -At its core, this economy occurs on a public ledger. As an account hods cash it begins to decay. This decay rate incentivises a person to use or convert the cash into a capital asset as quickly as possible. The cash does not decay into thin air. Instead it travels back through the blockchain to those that provided the cash in proportion to the amount provided into the account. This incentivises spenders to spend on accounts that they think will receive more cash in the future. We reward them if they predict success. Those that guess best receive a larger long term dividend than those that guess poorly. +At its core, this economy occurs on a public ledger. As an account holds cash it begins to decay. This decay rate incentivises a person to use or convert the cash into a capital asset as quickly as possible. The cash does not decay into thin air. Instead it travels back through the blockchain to those that provided the cash in proportion to the amount provided into the account. This incentivises spenders to spend on accounts that they think will receive more cash in the future. We reward them if they predict success. Those that guess best receive a larger long term dividend than those that guess poorly. The core economic question transfers from a question of what can I get for my dollar today to what can I get today and who will steward it best in the future. @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Entrepreneurs across the planet look for these antifragile-stable ideas but ofte #### XX. A demand for immortality -Once in a system where our future success depends on the success of those that we have contributed to in the past, and when those that have contributed to us depend on our continued success, a dynamic thing will happen. Those that depend on us, now a much wider net that just our decendants, will dread our deaths. Under current society, once we reach a certain age and stage, the world has more to gain from us kicking the bucket than sticking around. Under a hypercatallaxin system, this changes. This dependence of continued existence will drive medical research to a level where the life expectancy begins to increase at greater than a slope of 1. Here we find the beginning of immortality. We will certainly have many opportunities to mess it up along the way, and no guarantee exists, but a road does exist that we can point toward. +Once in a system where our future success depends on the success of those that we have contributed to in the past, and when those that have contributed to us depend on our continued success, a dynamic thing will happen. Those that depend on us, now a much wider net that just our descendants, will dread our deaths. Under current society, once we reach a certain age and stage, the world has more to gain from us kicking the bucket than sticking around. Under a hypercatallaxin system, this changes. This dependence of continued existence will drive medical research to a level where the life expectancy begins to increase at greater than a slope of 1. Here we find the beginning of immortality. We will certainly have many opportunities to mess it up along the way, and no guarantee exists, but a road does exist that we can point toward. #### XXI. Conclusion diff --git a/yudikowski-pirsig-and-alexander-walk-into-a-bar.md b/yudikowski-pirsig-and-alexander-walk-into-a-bar.md index 8c551ae..5944e15 100644 --- a/yudikowski-pirsig-and-alexander-walk-into-a-bar.md +++ b/yudikowski-pirsig-and-alexander-walk-into-a-bar.md @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ Test: Compare dynamic to static latches across a number of domains and compare l Yudkowsky comes down squarely on the side of a completely hostile universe. He warns that we must tread lightly as we move toward an Artificial Intelligence because it may decide that it no longer needs us and it could bring about the end of the human race. I don't doubt that this possibility, but I think he misses the Luminous Ground that Alexander speaks of in the Nature of Order. Now Yudkowsky would probably reject this seemingly silly concept out right. -Alexander’s Luminous Ground puts forth some 'other' that causes nature to work toward wholeness. To his credit Alexander spends hundreds of pages laying out empirical evidence for thi case. Perhaps some of needs fleshing out, especially in areas outside of architecture, but to Alexander's credit he calls for much more experiment and discovery. +Alexander’s Luminous Ground puts forth some 'other' that causes nature to work toward wholeness. To his credit Alexander spends hundreds of pages laying out empirical evidence for this case. Perhaps some of needs fleshing out, especially in areas outside of architecture, but to Alexander's credit he calls for much more experiment and discovery. Alexander’s conclusion leads to less of a concern of rogue AI if the development of it follows a stepwise pathway that ensures that wholeness increases. A wholeness aware and wholeness preserving AI should preserve and augment humanity instead of destroying it. @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ I think so. If anything, I think that Yudkowsky's humanism betrays his material/ I think these guys have reached many of the same conclusions about being careful when developing future tech, but they approach the world in two very different ways. Yudkowsky orientates toward futurism and aches to bring it to fruition and Taleb finds satisfaction with the way things were 1000 years ago(plus a little bit of medicine). -## Other Authors Who's Ideas Color This Work +## Other Authors Whose Ideas Color This Work #### Francis Fukuyama