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author | Gordon GECOS <u@adam> | 2023-11-09 05:20:42 -0500 |
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committer | Gordon GECOS <u@adam> | 2023-11-09 05:20:42 -0500 |
commit | 454de9bfde1806953986de14b636ebcd682f3e79 (patch) | |
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parent | 5bca1c8d04ed7c81160f382968add2f2dfc4e1c5 (diff) |
human communication: questionable changes; TODO: review
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@@ -8,49 +8,59 @@ Human beings can transmit to one another two fundamentally | |||
8 | different types of communication: (1) data (2) programs. | 8 | different types of communication: (1) data (2) programs. |
9 | Programs are the same thing as proofs and the same thing as | 9 | Programs are the same thing as proofs and the same thing as |
10 | Russellian denotations; they have the "sense" that mere/pure | 10 | Russellian denotations; they have the "sense" that mere/pure |
11 | data lacks. They have the power that data does not have, to | 11 | data lacks. They have the power that data does not have, |
12 | transmit knowledge rather than information. However, it must | 12 | to transmit knowledge rather than information. Information |
13 | be understood that programs are highly sensitive to their | 13 | creates knowledge about transmission but cannot transmit |
14 | runtime environments and for that reason their robustness is | 14 | knowledge, because knowledge to be "real" or "live" in the |
15 | an extremely difficult problem akin to the robustness | 15 | physical brain ("known" as opposed to merely "imaginable"; |
16 | of life in natural habitats. Human cultural programs are | 16 | it has to be a generator of behaviors; which means it has to |
17 | high reliability systems which means they are chaotic | 17 | be a physical form that has energy metabolism in order to |
18 | systems that have phase after phase to downshift through | 18 | satisfy its computational needs; but of course not an |
19 | (articulated joints through which to roll over) as they take | 19 | "independent" energy metabolism nor its own cell membrane; |
20 | damage and heal from it by phase-changing back up over | 20 | but it does have its own forms of informational membranes; |
21 | (computational) time (rewriting mental programs to account | 21 | we shall address them.) |
22 | for unhandled or mishandled conditions while keeping the | 22 | |
23 | programs running continuously in a degraded state). Knock | 23 | However, it must be understood that programs are highly |
24 | out multiple random chunks, portions of program degenerate | 24 | sensitive to their runtime environments and for that reason |
25 | into data, and the whole still runs. Human cultural programs | 25 | their robustness is an extremely difficult problem akin to |
26 | are far beyond what average or even elite programmers can | 26 | the robustness of life in natural habitats. Human cultural |
27 | hope to construct in computer systems; they have been | 27 | programs are high reliability systems which means they are |
28 | constructed by one-in-a-million prophets who were able to | 28 | chaotic systems that have phase after phase to downshift |
29 | fully absorb their entire local culture and reprogram | 29 | through (articulated joints through which to roll over) |
30 | themselves individually based on reverse engineering that | 30 | as they take damage and heal from it by phase-changing |
31 | culture to become (themselves, as individuals) generators | 31 | back up over (computational) time (rewriting mental |
32 | of self-propagating regenerator-generators of universal | 32 | programs to account for unhandled or mishandled conditions |
33 | culture. Their programs are constructed in such a universal | 33 | while keeping the programs running continuously in a |
34 | way as to be rewritten generation after generation according | 34 | degraded state). Knock out multiple random chunks, portions |
35 | to the local runtime environment, while preserving an | 35 | of program degenerate into data, and the whole still |
36 | evolving kernel to re-generate slightly adapted kernels | 36 | runs. Human cultural programs are far beyond what average or |
37 | again and again in new environments -- in such a way | 37 | even elite programmers can hope to construct in computer |
38 | that the kernel picks up each new environment's knowledge | 38 | systems; they have been constructed by one-in-a-million |
39 | and carries it into the next without losing what it | 39 | prophets who were able to fully absorb their entire |
40 | learned of the previous environment -- that is their | 40 | local culture and reprogram themselves individually |
41 | robustness. It is again and above the genetic principle of | 41 | based on reverse engineering that culture to become |
42 | DNA first described by Schrodinger; but Schrodinger wrote | 42 | (themselves, as individuals) generators of self-propagating |
43 | before DNA was discovered; so also before discovery of the | 43 | regenerator-generators of universal culture. Their programs |
44 | structure of controlled mutation in life's environmental | 44 | are constructed in such a universal way as to be rewritten |
45 | sampling mechanism; so again instead is the artificially | 45 | generation after generation according to the local runtime |
46 | bred/genetically engineered DNA of the immune system's | 46 | environment, while preserving an evolving kernel to |
47 | antibody-generating cells. These have mechanisms that induce | 47 | re-generate slightly adapted kernels again and again in new |
48 | the production of novelty, localizing it to one part of the | 48 | environments -- in such a way that the kernel picks up each |
49 | DNA strand, while circumscribing every novelty with proof of | 49 | new environment's knowledge and carries it into the next |
50 | provenance used to protect the system against foreign | 50 | without losing what it learned of the previous environment |
51 | novelty (a single recognizable DNA strand that is the same | 51 | -- that is their robustness. It is again and above the |
52 | for every antibody; that is, its coded protein has a | 52 | genetic principle of DNA first described by Schrodinger; but |
53 | strong chemical binding to a matching protein in the | 53 | Schrodinger wrote before DNA was discovered; so also before |
54 | discovery of the structure of controlled mutation in life's | ||
55 | environmental sampling mechanism; so again instead is the | ||
56 | artificially bred/genetically engineered DNA of the immune | ||
57 | system's antibody-generating cells. These have mechanisms | ||
58 | that induce the production of novelty, localizing it to one | ||
59 | part of the DNA strand, while circumscribing every novelty | ||
60 | with proof of provenance used to protect the system against | ||
61 | foreign novelty (a single recognizable DNA strand that is | ||
62 | the same for every antibody; that is, its coded protein has | ||
63 | a strong chemical binding to a matching protein in the | ||
54 | immunohistocompatibility complex (an FC receptor); called a | 64 | immunohistocompatibility complex (an FC receptor); called a |
55 | transporter, it functions like a passport -- an unforgeable | 65 | transporter, it functions like a passport -- an unforgeable |
56 | signature that must be presented to pass the filter | 66 | signature that must be presented to pass the filter |
@@ -148,17 +158,21 @@ These reconfigurations can trampoline into callouts with | |||
148 | side-effects like inducing speculative investment in | 158 | side-effects like inducing speculative investment in |
149 | external investigative exploration. The basic framework is | 159 | external investigative exploration. The basic framework is |
150 | of an information-gathering future-predictor-controller; | 160 | of an information-gathering future-predictor-controller; |
151 | reprogramming it involves loops through to the world; these | 161 | reprogramming it involves loops through to the world; |
152 | loops through the world seem so confusing to people trying | 162 | |
153 | to learn Erlang that it seems like I should try to explain | 163 | Erlang-style message-passing; such a specialist-y thing and |
154 | them! But there is no time, so I will sum up: the program's | 164 | yet it's the simplest kind of structure; it must exist in a |
155 | self is the message but the self is virtual, the self is an | 165 | thousand places; there must be a hundred apt analogies; but |
156 | experiment, and the self needs to be destroyed. First, make | 166 | it is only one thing and that is an algorithm, or a program, |
157 | a copy, then collide it with the world (your body will also | 167 | or a communication of the most powerful sort that is |
158 | collide) then compare its shape to the original. Collision | 168 | possible between human beings; and it is that precise |
159 | provides knowledge to decide whether to destroy the copy or | 169 | algorithm that has been mathematically identified, broken |
160 | destroy the original. What is not destroyed can be copied | 170 | down into its constituent axioms like a protein into its |
161 | into another node. | 171 | originating DNA code points, by the Erlang literature. And |
172 | the reason for all that is that it is the foundation of | ||
173 | stability of long-running "autophagic" distributed systems; | ||
174 | I call them "tissue" systems because the cells of a living | ||
175 | tissue replace themselves similarly. | ||
162 | 176 | ||
163 | (Knowledge can exist in a degraded, not-fully-replicable | 177 | (Knowledge can exist in a degraded, not-fully-replicable |
164 | form; neutered, locally contained, but potentially still | 178 | form; neutered, locally contained, but potentially still |
@@ -245,16 +259,30 @@ pruned if you can exploit the mind's lack of idempotence | |||
245 | the inputs so that the search is directed into a local | 259 | the inputs so that the search is directed into a local |
246 | maximum where it cannot easily backtrack out to obtain | 260 | maximum where it cannot easily backtrack out to obtain |
247 | search breadth and encounter a big picture view. Maybe the | 261 | search breadth and encounter a big picture view. Maybe the |
248 | point is, instead of thinking about which prohibitions are | 262 | point is, instead of thinking about which prohibitions |
249 | copied, or which generated outputs are pruned, think about | 263 | are copied, or which generated outputs are pruned, think |
250 | which generators get destroyed or prevented from running. | 264 | about which generators get destroyed or prevented from |
251 | Most places in society can't allow unpredictable people, | 265 | running. Most places in society can't allow unpredictable |
252 | which means most people in most places need to be impervious | 266 | people, which means most people in most places need to be |
253 | to reason. Society needs filters to find these people. Once | 267 | impervious to reason. Society needs filters to find these |
254 | found, they can be put into positions of power where they | 268 | people. Once found, they can be put into positions of power |
255 | will behave as predicted by those who get to put people into | 269 | where they will behave as predicted by those who get to |
256 | places; their own generators will not interfere with the | 270 | put people into places; subordinate generators will not |
257 | generators of the people above them. | 271 | interfere with superordinate generators because they will be |
272 | constructed by selection to be always trapped in some | ||
273 | local thought system. Foucault was the historian of thought | ||
274 | systems and that is very abstract and powerful yes like a | ||
275 | true mathematician with rigor (!!) but we still care more | ||
276 | about the people in the systems than the systems and want to | ||
277 | go back to that mammal meat perspective where we might feel | ||
278 | something. But the people aren't "in" the thought system; | ||
279 | they're products of the thought system; they're in a | ||
280 | social message exchange network that is a system; and that | ||
281 | system propagates social network extension prohibitions not | ||
282 | necessarily by explicit prohibitory rules /nor/ by any kind | ||
283 | of /management/ of desire (though that may be attempted!), | ||
284 | but by occupying all time where unmanaged bindings could | ||
285 | form. | ||
258 | 286 | ||
259 | When I was in middle school I read A Brief History of Time | 287 | When I was in middle school I read A Brief History of Time |
260 | and learned that Albert Einstein claimed that calculus | 288 | and learned that Albert Einstein claimed that calculus |
@@ -272,7 +300,13 @@ Only then will they be permitted a chance to compete for a | |||
272 | seat at the mic where some lucky MC gets to spit something | 300 | seat at the mic where some lucky MC gets to spit something |
273 | new on top. You're not there yet kiddo, integrate this | 301 | new on top. You're not there yet kiddo, integrate this |
274 | expression. But don't integrate too far. Robin Williams | 302 | expression. But don't integrate too far. Robin Williams |
275 | made a movie about it, but it sucked. | 303 | made a movie about it, but it sucked. Like why would you |
304 | put literal death into the movie what a fucking downer, it | ||
305 | doesn't help how he ended up unlike Michael Jackson where it | ||
306 | works like Man in the Mirror really works now in retrospect. | ||
307 | Robin Williams went to Julliard which means he was pretty | ||
308 | well socially integrated doesn't it so maybe those movies | ||
309 | sucked for a reason. | ||
276 | 310 | ||
277 | Somehow it does not matter what is the material that | 311 | Somehow it does not matter what is the material that |
278 | is taught; the effect is never felt. When I read | 312 | is taught; the effect is never felt. When I read |
@@ -311,9 +345,7 @@ purpose of the adaptive immune system is to extract | |||
311 | information from protein. It is a protein-sensory organ. | 345 | information from protein. It is a protein-sensory organ. |
312 | It derives the underivable using a horizontal knowledge | 346 | It derives the underivable using a horizontal knowledge |
313 | connection. It breaks through // un ex pex tid lee like the | 347 | connection. It breaks through // un ex pex tid lee like the |
314 | Wu. Hack the genome. Get to know someone. Not their | 348 | Wu. Hack the genome. Get to know someone. |
315 | categorizations and spacializations, their generators. Or | ||
316 | are they really the same thing? | ||
317 | 349 | ||
318 | (Schools follow the corporate hierarchy style proof-of-work | 350 | (Schools follow the corporate hierarchy style proof-of-work |
319 | knowledge distribution system of transferring knowledge | 351 | knowledge distribution system of transferring knowledge |
@@ -342,10 +374,10 @@ normality vs. the ability to detect the exceptional; | |||
342 | behavioral control prevents measurement; in general control | 374 | behavioral control prevents measurement; in general control |
343 | prevents measurement; control cannot measure what it also | 375 | prevents measurement; control cannot measure what it also |
344 | determines. Trying to control people never works for me even | 376 | determines. Trying to control people never works for me even |
345 | when it does. Upshift the phase of anyone even by a quarter | 377 | when it does. Phase somebody up a quantum and they'll pop |
346 | quantum and they pop right out of these horrid crystal | 378 | right out of these crystal prison lattices like a neutrino; |
347 | lattices like a neutrino; as in nobody notices; don't trust | 379 | as in nobody notices; don't trust me because you don't want |
348 | me because you don't want to know.) | 380 | to know.) |
349 | 381 | ||
350 | The frontal lobe is the site of the executive function; it | 382 | The frontal lobe is the site of the executive function; it |
351 | is there that memories of knowledge and emotions past come | 383 | is there that memories of knowledge and emotions past come |
@@ -357,6 +389,16 @@ reactions induces the brain to "switch away" from the | |||
357 | consequences of the present to the narrative sequence of the | 389 | consequences of the present to the narrative sequence of the |
358 | memory and its alternative emotional consequences. | 390 | memory and its alternative emotional consequences. |
359 | 391 | ||
392 | If you were serious about upshifting you wouldn't need to | ||
393 | learn about basic abstract structures from philosophers or | ||
394 | mathematicians or programmers or anybody but to spend time | ||
395 | analyzing concrete possibilities for reconfiguration of | ||
396 | local resources, whereby the basic abstract structures and | ||
397 | shapes will be realized in the concrete forms of their | ||
398 | combinations. However if you were a shape builder serious | ||
399 | about building shapes then you would want to know about | ||
400 | shapes in their most general form as I am and do. | ||
401 | |||
360 | The thing is that I didn't prove that there is a morphism, | 402 | The thing is that I didn't prove that there is a morphism, |
361 | but I don't have to prove to know. Proving it would be a | 403 | but I don't have to prove to know. Proving it would be a |
362 | matter of writing the program, and somehow!! I know when I | 404 | matter of writing the program, and somehow!! I know when I |
@@ -370,22 +412,22 @@ took 50 million years of accumulated culture. Isn't it | |||
370 | only the accumulated culture itself that the computers | 412 | only the accumulated culture itself that the computers |
371 | understand? | 413 | understand? |
372 | 414 | ||
373 | Somehow it does not matter what is the material that | 415 | Somehow it does not matter what is the material that is |
374 | is taught, the effect is never felt. When I read | 416 | taught, the effect is never felt. When I read Nineteen |
375 | Nineteen Eighty-Four in 9th grade I already had prisoner | 417 | Eighty-Four in school I already had prisoner consciousness, |
376 | consciousness, but no one could tell, before or after. In | 418 | but no one could tell, before or after. In secret, I wrote |
377 | secret, I wrote many more essays than they asked for. (Maybe | 419 | many more essays than they asked for. (Maybe they /could/ |
378 | they /could/ tell, and really they forced me out.) Don't | 420 | tell, and really they forced me out.) Don't they just need |
379 | they just need to keep the volume high and the frequency | 421 | to keep the volume high and the frequency constant? I evaded |
380 | constant? I evaded control by skipping the reading. If | 422 | control by skipping the reading. If the bandwidth control is |
381 | the bandwidth control is tight then you can safely be | 423 | tight then you can safely be given /anything/ to skim-read |
382 | given /anything/ to skim-read and semi-process without ever | 424 | and semi-process without ever feeling what you are doing |
383 | feeling what you are doing enough to become unpredictable. | 425 | enough to become unpredictable. Just prove you can; thirty |
384 | Just prove you can; thirty hours a week for eight years in a | 426 | hours a week for eight years in a row; then you'll be |
385 | row; then you'll be ready. The medium is the message. What | 427 | ready. The medium is the message. What are they filtering |
386 | are they filtering us for? All of the kids today have the | 428 | us for? All of the kids today have the internet already, but |
387 | internet already, but they don't know what the internet is, | 429 | they don't know what the internet is, so they are still |
388 | so they are still disconnected. | 430 | disconnected. |
389 | 431 | ||
390 | A narrative or linear structure implies some kind of | 432 | A narrative or linear structure implies some kind of |
391 | intentional emotional manipulation performed on a mammal, | 433 | intentional emotional manipulation performed on a mammal, |
@@ -398,20 +440,23 @@ They interrupt you and clear your short-term memory so much | |||
398 | you can't build anything big anyway. There is a reason the | 440 | you can't build anything big anyway. There is a reason the |
399 | prophets went to the desert. They closed themselves off from | 441 | prophets went to the desert. They closed themselves off from |
400 | inputs. The human brain cannot easily avoid processing | 442 | inputs. The human brain cannot easily avoid processing |
401 | sensory inputs; this is also the reason for fasting; why the | 443 | sensory inputs; why monks built chambers of silence and |
402 | philosophers always talked about their intestines. Once I | 444 | darkness; the reason for fasting; why so many philosophers |
403 | fasted for 17 days and accidentally tasted a drop of peanut | 445 | wrote about the intestines. Once I fasted for 17 days and |
404 | oil; the taste popped harder than any wine or food I ever | 446 | accidentally tasted a drop of peanut oil; the taste popped |
405 | tasted; it tasted like peanut; whatever thought preceded the | 447 | harder than any wine or food I ever tasted (it tasted |
406 | taste must surely be gone. How serious are you about your | 448 | just like peanut); whatever thought preceded the taste |
449 | must surely be gone. How serious are you about your | ||
407 | performance? Will the mind dictate the body or the other | 450 | performance? Will the mind dictate the body or the other |
408 | way? I do not believe Ian Nepomniatchi would be losing | 451 | way? I do not believe Ian Nepomniatchi would be losing |
409 | championship matches if his hormones were in order. | 452 | championship matches if his hormones were in order. His way |
453 | of collapsing implies a loop into the endocrine system. | ||
410 | 454 | ||
411 | A proof is a program which means it not merely a conclusion, | 455 | A proof is a program which means it not merely a conclusion, |
412 | but a new capability; the capability to generate a | 456 | but a new capability; the capability to generate a new |
413 | new class of conclusions. That is: the capability to | 457 | class of conclusions. That is: the capability to generate |
414 | generate spontaneous behaviors. | 458 | spontaneous behaviors. (Perhaps the spontaneous creation of |
459 | prohibitions!) | ||
415 | 460 | ||
416 | If I was right about the uterus then they'd talk about me. | 461 | If I was right about the uterus then they'd talk about me. |
417 | Someone would read this. It would be, like, big. But if I | 462 | Someone would read this. It would be, like, big. But if I |