ToW: Exploration of what the space is that semantics map references into. Since a statement can be false, it can't be reality. But since we can talk about true or false, reality must be involved somehow.
ToW: Some thinking along the lines of Semantic Topological Spaces's claim 1 and The Natural Abstraction Hypothesis: Implications and Evidence. Should we expect the path networks take through geometries to "bend" towards certain geometries that are "more abstract"? What would that really mean and how would we tell and what would the implications be?
ToW: Consideration of the quadrants of "control" x "alignment" with thanks to Charlie Steiner and Steve Barrett for inspiration.
ToW: Musing on Occam's razor, priors, consistency with evidence, and dreams or matter as the foundation of reality.
ToW: How are the words "world", "universe", "reality", and "dimension" meaningfully distinct to me. (Includes rant about my pet peeve: colloquial use of "alternate dimension" to refer to "alternate universe" or "alternate reality".
Relatedly: The problem of "new" in the name of things, for example, the "neocortex".
ToW: Review of Bostrom's Deep Utopia. He seems to have taken more creative liberties, and so lacks more hierarchical structure for quickly making sense of or reviewing the content of the book. I may undercut the effect he was going for by providing such a hierarchy, but it is how I most commonly make sense of the contents of books.
ToW: Response to "6 reasons why alignment-is-hard discourse...". I liked this post. I'd like to write out some of my thoughts on it.
ToW: Exploration of simulacrum levels. It feels to me like the situation should be more of an interconnected web thing than discrete levels, but I haven't thought it through enough yet.
ToW: "Does demanding rights make problem solvers feel insulted?" informal social commentary exploring my thoughts on the relationship between human rights and the systems we employ to ensure standards of human rights can be met.
Include the story of the cotton picking machine?
All of this needs to be fact checked, so might be better as it's own article, but I had wondered if the creation of the machine had played a role in enabling the social rights movement to free slaves who were previously depended on for the job, but looking into it, it seems to be the opposite. The social rights movement to free slaves provided incentive to automate work they had previously been relied on for. Interestingly, it doesn't seem like a greater share of wealth was distributed from capital holders to slaves, nor did the price of cotton increase to provide fair payment to slaves. Instead, it seems slaves were moved out of the industry and replaced with machines who could do the work just as cheaply but without moral patient-hood that had made use of slaves immoral.
ToW: Map articulating all talking (Maat) sequence. Current post plan is described in the first post of the sequence.
ToW: Outcome Influencing Systems (OISs) brief explainer.
ToW: "Shut up about consciousness", a rant about how I think "consciousness" distracts from anything I want to talk about, probably including exploration of how OIS terminology is designed to avoid "consciousness" or other religious questions.
ToW: A review and explanation of the more math AI topics (Statistic ML theory, Universal AI, Infrabayes, etc...) targeted at non math audiences.
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