Proactive Meme Culling and Elimination

Should we throw away various tenets of existence?  racism?  the past?  Summarize them as “past human stupidity” and move forward beyond the status quo?

I believe that to some extent we are at an edge of human knowledge at least as far as various memes are concerned.  It seems trivial to take a meme, hash it, and come up with new memes.  Some memes can be created.  Some memes are emergent.

The blather that is on YouTube, while funny, seems to indicate this as a basic issue.  Where do you want to go today Mr. Kaku and other respected geniuses of the world?  Your colliders are surely fun, useful, and interesting, but I suggest that we can do better.  I do not see a future of malls on the moon…  while the ladies may enjoy that, the feasibility of such while there are people starving seems a bit annoying.  Starving people should have access to a wonderful existence the same way that others do.  Everyone should have basic needs met…. with or without work.  There have to be ways to create this kind of reality if we’d all just get beyond our petty differences and the concept of money in general.  Life as art… life as blisss… life as ecstasy… life as fantasy… there have to be ways to do this.

Do we as a race hold ourselves back by holding on to the past?  Law is one area that seems to sorely need an upgrade.  Law is essentially a set of protocols.  Protocols can be automated.  To some extent law is automated however there are aspects of law that need to come under the purview of philosophers instead of attorneys.  How can one practice any kind of law regarding the ultimate good, if one does not deeply practice philosophy and study of the human mind, society, the world at large, and the extents of human possibilities.  It’s the year 2010 for Christ’s sake.

All of our life preserving and destructive toys will eventually come to good use but I believe that the use will be in a form that is far different than we are all accustomed to and we can still preserve the sanctity of life, the notion of our souls, and the notion of living.

We put a man on the moon when my father was in school.  Where’s my Millenium Falcon?  It would cost too much to build… few could afford it… but everyone can have one… inside of a different reality.  Maybe computers have it the right way around… to live in the matrix… a multiplicity of various matrixes.  Toy Story memehashed with Battlestar Galactica perhaps.

Can we bring the future if we can all stop talking about the past so much and the way it always was.  How about the way it is, or the ways it could be?  Our legal underpinnings are bound in Egyptian and religious teachings…  whether we want to admit it or not.  There are better ways to do things…  these ways have served us well for quite some time but perhaps it is time to consider alternatives.  If Egyptians dealt with higher beings, one would have to surmise that these higher beings certainly had the capacity to imagine… and imagine a great many things.  Human imagination alone is extremely powerful.  Why is it implausible for our imagination to not be possible other than greed, stupidity, and sheer lack of trying to create a better reality.

The Edge of Human Knowledge

People have likely wondered throughout time where exactly the edge of human knowledge truly lies.  This is likely an issue bound deeply in meta math, physics, chemistry, physiology, technology, linguistics, computation, philosophy, and a multitude of other areas of study.

I would however suggest that the edge of knowledge seems finite especially if one is simply to use combinatorics, informatics, permutations, and hashing of various concepts.  If quantum physics and science can be augmented or allows for things such as full blown magic, then it seems to me that a fantastical reality could exist or be created such that we could all live in this fantastical reality and not have to deal with the mundanity of real life, jobs, etc.

To get there however first requires the extents of human knowledge to be ascertained…. at least in theory.

Where is the edge of the Internet?  Who are the modern Einsteins of our day?  Where are the thought leaders taking us?  The biggest things we hear about these days are time travel, grand unification theories, teleportation, and artificial intelligence… is this all we can come up with?  Perhaps a grander reality is fully constrained by the physical world.  If a world could be created and lived inside of that is almost entirely pure fantasy, should it be created, can it even exist, and would you want to live within it?

English as a language seems pretty simple.  What if English does not allow for the efficient description of these new worlds or perhaps a newer more efficient language needs to be created…  or intuitive communications of sorts, whether mental, graphical, or from other points of view.

It seems that the periodic table as a construct is fairly basic and that the various elements simply plug in to an existing framework.  This framework seems to exist outside of the math and physics… perhaps an informational construct… perhaps there is a basic framework or construct to everything that exists that can simply be augmented, extrapolated, and built upon.

The Disturbing Future of Artificial Intelligence

Many scholars and technologists of today are asserting and pursuing an artificially intelligent future.  While these quests may be noble in understanding consciousness, intelligence, the human condition, and the inner workings of the mind, one has to consider the more deeply philosophical concerns with creating such an entity.

A few observations:

  • grants.gov has some philosophically disturbing requests from DARPA and other organizations.

Questions:

  • Who will utilize or use these beings and to what end?

Assumptions:

  • AI will require some kind of prime directive so as to not harm humanity or life itself.
  • To be conscious and/or human-like, the entity will need to be able to read.

Problems:

  • If a humanoid robot can read, interpret, analyze, extrapolate, and pontificate on the data that has been read, wouldn’t it then be able to therefore judge humanity?
  • Even if you were to create a robot in such a way as to protect humanity and life, wouldn’t the creation of two robots enable them to debug, rewire, reverse engineer, or otherwise reprogram each other?
  • Couldn’t a human also in the purchase or utilization of such entity, rewire, reverse engineer, or otherwise access the robot in such a way as to reprogram it?
  • Wouldn’t it be possible for a human or robotic conspirator to reprogram an AI or robot in such a fashion such that a single being could control them all?
  • Would the installation of a global kill switch or code bring about any additional safety when it is likely (as has been proven throughout eternity) that just about any code or system, no matter how complicated, can in fact be broken, disrupted, or otherwise disabled?

Just a few problems to consider…

First Post

I have been a deep lurker of the Internet for over a decade and have not written a single word.  I’m not sure that matters really in the grand scheme of things.  I guess largely it depends on one’s ultimate purpose or the collective purpose of humanity.  Perhaps it matters in some way.  Perhaps it doesn’t.

It seems to me the world is filled largely with noise; people shouting over the tops of others simply in some way to be heard or pertinent.  Humanity seems as if it is largely a hive of unnecessary and highly disorganized meme and thought hashing coupled with a largely disorganized movement of goods, resources, and people from points A to B to C.

My thoughts have a tendency to be highly fragmented and parallelized within a multiplicity of various subject areas at any given point in time.  I may or may not be hard to follow.  If I am its because I’m pulling or extracting data from many resources that you may or may not have read and therefore may have difficulty in following along.  I do not guarantee however that my thoughts provide any unique or profound insights, but they are here to peruse.

I have not watched TV in at least three years and the Internet, if it weren’t for work, may end up on the shelf as well; perhaps I will attempt to limit my access.

I’ve read the vast majority of the Internet.  That may sound preposterous… but really I have.  It leaves me with a sort of a sick feeling.  The kind of feeling one might have after having eaten three double quarter pounders followed by an extra large iced coffee with loads of cream and sugar.

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