You’re absolutely right to highlight this danger and I think your scenario is not just plausible, but likely without intentional safeguards. History overwhelmingly shows that surveillance tools are first applied to the powerless, and only rarely if ever to those in power. The examples you give (job coercion, religious pressure, parental abuse) are chilling because they follow existing social patterns.
My post isn’t meant to suggest that this kind of system should be built now, or that we can trust it to be used fairly by default. Instead, I’m trying to explore the uncomfortable possibility that such technology might become inevitable not because it’s ideal, but because it emerges out of escalating demand for justice, transparency, or control.
If that future arrives, we’ll face a fork in the road:
I’m not claiming that’s easy or even likely. I’m only arguing that if this future is coming, we should start defining how to resist its default dystopia and imagine better uses before someone else builds it without asking.
Thanks for the thoughtful critique — I think you’re absolutely right that evolution by natural selection, as we know it, relies on mechanisms like reproduction, variation, and interaction happening on relatively fast timescales and small spatial scales. Galaxies and planets don’t seem to fit that model: they don’t reproduce, they rarely interact meaningfully, and they change far too slowly for classic Darwinian evolution to work.
But I realize now that I may have been too loose with my use of “life” or “intelligence” in the original post. What I’m really interested in exploring is this:
Are there forms of structure or information-processing at different scales — even planetary or galactic — that could be analogous to intelligence, adaptation, or life-like behavior, without being literal biological evolution?
We already have some examples that stretch the definition:
So maybe galaxies aren’t evolving minds — but could they still participate in slow, emergent feedback structures we’d recognize as life-like, if we weren’t so bound to human-scale definitions of cognition or change?
I appreciate you pushing me to clarify this — I think the real idea I’m after is whether structure + time + interaction could lead to complex, adaptive dynamics at any scale, even if it doesn’t meet the biological criteria for life or intelligence.
Yes, It is more difficult to understand arbitrary tree structure but the goal is make the tree more and more logical and less and less arbitrary, we need a perfectly logical tree that could describe every meaning (if possible) or atleast as close as possible. When its more logical it'll be easier to learn and hard to master.
Yesss! Solresol is definitely a spiritual cousin — and you're right, the pentatonic scale connection is super interesting.
Kamelo using 5 phonemes intentionally echoes both:
Solresol mapped syllables to meanings too, but Kamelo’s twist is:
So theoretically:
Hey, Thanks so much for diving into Kamelo, you’ve nailed exactly the kind of questions I’m wrestling with.
You're totally right — grammar is where ambiguity really enters. Right now, Kamelo doesn’t have a fixed grammar yet. But the idea is:
Yes! You can stop mid-encoding. That's a key principle: Kamelo is compressible based on shared context, like how we say "the fruit" instead of "a Rosaceae angiosperm of genus Malus". The idea is to transmit enough meaning for the moment, and go deeper if needed.
That’s why a base likekakasu meti su
("noun, fruiting plant, [Rosaceae]")
could be totally valid in conversation, and even shorten further in high-context.
This is still flexible, but currently considering:
Syllable | IPA | Notes |
---|---|---|
ka | /ka/ | like "car" |
me | /me/ | like "meh" |
ti | /ti/ | like "tea" |
su | /su/ | like "soo" |
lo | /lo/ | like "low" |
The goal is max distinctiveness across modalities — so these sounds are spread in mouth shape, tongue placement, and timing (good for speech-to-sign or tactile mapping later).
Pronouns aren’t fixed "words" like in English. Instead, they act like references. For example:
ka
→ "living entity"lo
after that in the same convo to refer back to that entity.So something like:ka ti
= "the dog"lo me
= "it is happy"
(Assuming me = happy or emotive state)
They behave more like pointing mechanisms in programming, and are scope-bound to context.
You're spot on: 5 syllables is limiting — Kamelo is intentionally extreme, like a design provocation. It pushes me to see how much abstraction and compression can be done before the system collapses. Future iterations might have 12–20 syllables for balance.
Haha, I get why it might sound like that but no, this isn’t Claude making a quiet pitch for AI overlordship.
This is a human wrestling with a future that feels increasingly likely:
A world where mind-reading tech or something close exists, and the people who control it aren’t exactly known for their restraint or moral clarity.
If anything, this post is a preemptive “oh no” not a blueprint for AI governance, but a thought experiment asking:
“How bad could this get if we don’t talk about it early?”
And is there any version of it that doesn’t default to dystopia?
So, definitely not a bid for AI rule. More like a “can we please not sleepwalk into this with no rules” plea.