[FRIAM] Ramsification and Semantic Indeterminacy

[steve smith]

REC -

Glad to see someone else has tapped into this work.

I discovered Wells' Murderbot series a year ago or so and what a timely 
find!

I do love the way she presents the advanced "self aiming gun turret"'s 
form of self (and other) awareness.

- SAS

On 12/12/24 12:04 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 11:25 AM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> 
> wrote:
>
>     Seems there are good reasons to replace humans.
>
>     1) Humans can’t easily travel to new planets due to radiation and
>     hostile environments.
>     2) Our appetite for energy is vast and our decadence unbounded.  A
>     rising standard of living for all humans will accelerate this due
>     to increased demands for fossil fuels.
>     3) At least in the United States, our education system is not
>     serving the whole of the population effectively, leading to the
>     election of people that make our problems worse.
>
>     4) We can’t cooperate to solve or even identify real problems.
>     5) AI seems to be successfully harvesting human knowledge and
>     extending it, e.g. AlphaFold.
>
> 6) Human life span is too limited to consume all available media.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderbot_Diaries are stories about 
> a self aiming gun turret who discovers a wider world and gets confused 
> by it.
>
> -- rec --
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