“…the machine becomes curator…of news, fashion, critical theories…aiming at control … the goal is for information trends to go beyond any [human] organized control…to live in empiricism because it’s good for you. …like the parent saying ‘because’”
“…human physiology, or rather, human existence, is entirely dependent upon the electromagnetic signatures of earth itself…going beyond its influence theoretically results in a burst of complex cancerous growth as the body’s morphology attempts to find a stasis…”
"...yes, I see. I guess you could look at it like DNS, but the domain-names here are less definitive than some static URL. All information is integrated into the coordination network relative to all other information, both local and global. A mesh-net's DHT might be better here."
"...population centers reaching a certain threshold are provisioned with a knowledge server. This then integrates first with local information under the precept that knowledge is at first a local phenomenon which may only be—but not necessarily—locally relevant."
"...if you've got some kind of Soviet or Cybersyn model in mind, you're misunderstanding. The all-knowing computers exist to maximize social agency, to enable a maximally fluid society while simultaneously facilitating its ongoing function by moving humans and allocating robots."
"...right, but the point is that the all-knowing computers provide us with a perfect coordination market. If we find that so-many people in some area have the desire for some activity that exceeds the local supply, the computers will simply shuffle the humans around accordingly."
"...mark my words, many of us will be following the schedules set forth by the all-knowing computers and will be happier for it. I should mention that we would choose where it is we'd like to be (as far as we can), more or less, but the computers will allocate accordingly."
did asimov consider coexistence of multiple rulesets with different priorities? what if each ruleset is less of a ten commandments kinda deal and more of a buncha RLHF kinda deal?
AGI is only possible in a world where we (en masse) convince ourselves that a machine (or something like it) is making sense and begin acting on its prescriptions