<div dir="ltr">Das Kapital is our most successful experiment in artificial life, but it's still feral and no one has the least clue how to domesticate it, and the grey goo we're constructing is a mass of collateralized debt instruments.<div><br></div><div>-- rec --</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 11:03\u202fAM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p><a href="https://doctorow.medium.com/solar-is-a-market-for-financial-lemons-ea00699fe0a2" target="_blank">https://doctorow.medium.com/solar-is-a-market-for-financial-lemons-ea00699fe0a2<br>
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<p>I suspect the opinions among the members of this list range
widely on Doctorow's work, my general response to him is a guarded
positive.<br>
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<p>I offer this article to you nominally about the problems with
rooftop-solar "gaming" but as a reflection on Corporations (and I
claim governments, religions, other institutions) as "slow AI".
Rooftop Solar is just a contemporary somewhat benign case-study.<br>
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<p>They are both contrived as "rule-based" systems and evolved in
the same mode as Machine Learning Models. </p>
<p>The 2023 rush of AI/ML into the public's eye and hands might well
overwhelm us with false-paths to individual and collective
prosperity. Opportunities for dead-ends or overshoots abound in
the harsh light of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_hacking" target="_blank">"reward
hacking"</a>? <br>
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<p>And then we have the spectre of <br>
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