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Why *nix won
"Unix philosophy emphasizes building simple, compact, clear, modular & extensible code that can be easily maintained & repurposed by developers other than its creators. The Unix philosophy favors composability as opposed to monolithic design"
#Comment: There is a bad tendency in machine learning to build tools that are exactly the opposite of the Unix philosophy.
There are many species specific proprietary tools in nature, such as the human hand. But all essential innovations of nature, such as DNA, are wildly used across species in an open source fashion. This dynamic emerges at all scales of organization, from cells to software & beyond
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Worlds, Questions and Observers
"The world is all that is the case." – Ludwig Wittgenstein
"No question? No answer!" – John Archibald Wheeler
"An observer searches for a system of interest by subjecting the world to finite measurement" - Chris Fields
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The issue with Nixon's "Madman theory" is that "Any sufficiently advanced simulation of insanity is indistinguishable from insanity” and then 'We become what we behold', as William Blake put it.
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Visualizations of Hamlet's Stages of Insanity: Mapping the gradient between "sane" & "insane" over time is a powerful tool one can use to make sense of current affairs.
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Fun things DARPA and the DoD have in store for us this year
WARDEN - to amplify the range and lethality of high-power microwave systems
Rapid Healing for Warfighter Injuries - leveraging artificial intelligence to predict, stimulate, and control physiological processes in complex tissues
NSIA - non-surgical machine interface technology to input multiple channels of information into neural tissue *currently in final testing/transition to implementation phase*
***AAI*** - facilitation of operator-machine interface, knowledge management and dissemination, and social context-informed AI forecasting, including focus on measuring and aggregating PRECONSCIOUS SIGNALS and how these can be used to determine what people believe to be true
Oversight - implementation of automated satellite-based programming to maintain custody (constant surveillance) of "targets" in contested environments, interfacing with IoT infrastructure to supplement satellite capability
Sema - For the use of AI/machine learning to identify "false information", its origin, and its intent
ASIST - development of computational agents (AI) that demonstrate human social intelligence which can be utilized with high trust/acceptance in complex environments
Human Social Systems - development of algorithms to conduct scalable social and behavioral science research, especially pertaining to environments under stress, for use in "stabilization, deterrence, grey zone, and influence operations"
SocialSim - simulation of information spread and evolution over multiple global social media platforms for use in US information campaign spread and development of realistic, synthetic social media for training and other purposes
ASED - "counter-social engineering bots" that act on behalf of users to mediate and aggregate communications and auto-identify attackers
Competing in Undergoverned Spaces - development of data aggregate/algorithmic models for predicting and influencing outcome in areas with minimal governance, both physical and conceptual (virtual)
INCAS - integration of language processing, social network analysis, psychographics, and behavioral science-based technologies into a unified automated digital tool designed to rapidly detect and understand messaging campaigns and analyze/distil potential counter-measures
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ChatGPT by OpenAI now expressly prohibits arguments for fossil fuels. (It used to offer them.) Not only that, it excludes nuclear energy from its counter-suggestions. 🤡 🤡 🤡
