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<p>And next, I think we need to start the debate over what
serialization language "conceptual telepathy" will be based on.</p>
<p>Somehow I doubt it will be JSON except maybe for the biggest
geeks who already think in JavaScript or PostScript ( ala <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS">NeWS</a>
circa 1988?), more likely whatever Haskell systems developers use
for serialization? <br>
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<p>Has anyone developed an "ethics filter or lens" for Haskell -
Streams?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/29/20 6:22 PM, Steve Smith wrote:<br>
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<p>I believe that what he is demonstrating is a roughly accurate
presentation of what NL has achieved to date.<br>
</p>
<p>Am I astounded by:</p>
<ol>
<li>How much progress has been made in the field in my life</li>
<li>How casual Musk and his fanbois/goils are about this</li>
<li>How Musk implies that the (truly significant) level of
thoughtful safety required for Tesla cars is similar to what
is required here.<br>
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<p>I know I often render here as a neo-luddite, and perhaps that
is what I am. I was raised on scientific progress and science
fiction and experienced a lot of engineering marvels coming to
fruit right in front of me. I have participated in and dreamed
of a wide range of human-experience-enhancement projects, both
professional and private, industrial and ad-hoc. My "inner
child" wants to live forever, have my physicality, my
intellectuality, and if possible, my spirituality enhanced in
any and every way it might be. That could mean various modes
of personal behaviour from diet to exercise/activity to
meditation, etc. Technologically it could be everything from
chemistry to electronic to computational to physical.</p>
<p>As I age (clumsily) it is easy for me to think of ways NL might
extend/improve my life. When I allow myself to fantasize I can
go *all over the place*. If I were younger and healthier I
might be *even more* jazzed at imaginings of *enhancing* myself,
not just mitigating losses. Driving a car or motorcycle (or
flying a plane) by "thought", extending my physiome more
*directly* even than those kinds of devices do is fairly
simple/appealing. Taking the functions currently mediated
through computers with screens/keyboards/mice, moble phones,
fitness bands/rings, etc and making them more transparent are
appealing. I expect to be able to listen to
music/podcasts/audiobooks without earbuds long before I can have
a virtual Heads-Up display but I see both of those out there on
the horizon. Variations on telepresent robotics seem like
excellent fusions of many of these features. Seems like I
might be living instead of dreaming my orbital mechanics as a
telepresent-waldo-spaceship is my proxy (yes, comm lags are big
issues, but there *are* ways to mitigate and work around some of
that) And it goes on and on and on from there. The sky is
(not) the limit?</p>
<p>The biggest problem with/challenge to all of this in MY opinion
is the one the Amish apparently ask themselves when they are
considering whether to adopt a new (to them) technology: "who
do I become when I have this technology?"</p>
<p>I have already danced a little above with some of the "things I
could do, and implied that i could be" with this technology and
on the surface, it seems like mostly upside. At best, it looks
(like much of our current technology-of-personal-convenience)
like a mixed bag. I think many of us recognize that our
discovery of the energy that is embedded in fossil fuels and the
myriad ways we have learned to harness that energy has some
unintended consequences that *might* have us wanting to roll it
all back and proceed into our modern industrial revolution a bit
more thoughtfully (however one does that). Similarly, our
widespread adoption of digital computation/storage/communication
technologies might also fit that description. Most of us agree
that "screen time" is a challenge for most demographics... Some
may feel that "modern medicine" has become a significant
"double-edged scalpel" for us... and modern agri-industry... and
... and ...</p>
<p>This leads to the reality that even if I or you, or all of
FriAM resists this direction of development, or tries to overlay
a strong review and regulation on it, it is going to happen, it
is going to grow and spread. I recognize that simply being
*negative* about all progress rarely serves to help that
progress be more human/humane... if anything it pushes it into
the darker corners and it ends up emerging with kinks and twists
from those dark corners shaping it more than it needs to.</p>
<p>I'm ambi-valent on this technology... stoked at the
possibilities, but also very leery of unbridled optimism and
(ab)uses flying off in all directions at once (inevitable?).
This is another example of Kauffman's "Adjacent Possible" space
and bifurcation points. I don't *like* the dreams of
Kurzweil and other Singularians but I am believing that
something resembling it is more likely and Musk might be a
significant driver of that. I know he speaks cautionarily
against General AI, but I don't here him speak much about the
(overwhelming?) problems of myriad other "unintended/anticipated
consequences".</p>
<p>Pedal to the metal!</p>
<p> - Steve<br>
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