Combined with general model uncertainty, it seems premature to conclude that far-future-focused actions dominate short-term helping. It’s likely that the far future will still dominate after more thorough analysis, but by much less than a naive future fanatic would have thought.
How the Simulation Argument Dampens Future Fanaticism – Center on Long-Term Risk
Submitted 1 year ago by tetranomos@awful.systems to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 year ago
What in the name of SpongeBob is this? The source they write all this garbage on is from a reddit comment from 9 years ago with 6 upvotes with completely made up math, then it’s stretched out into a lengthened nonsense that sounds like something a schizophrenic patient would talk about and trust me I know what that sounds like.
All from a think tank of white people in London. The heck?
tetranomos@awful.systems 11 months ago
let’s get you up-to-date in the 21st century. back in 2001 margaret runchey prototyped her unitary technology in “model of everything”, some patented stuff happening about ontological design just before jeff bezos’ “api mandate” (2002). now we’re assessing how to model transaction artifacts that [learn] or [fail not to learn] about their own copies or clones which “own people as data”.
quote: Having a maker or owner is the source of identity. The record of civilization is charted in official claims of origination. We have institutionalized mechanisms for establishing authenticity, one of the purposes government serves. This critical step is missing in current electronic models that apply entity status and standing to define virtual transaction artifacts that own people as data.
so, that’s copies of people [theorized as data objects or entities] depending on your philosophy of definition, not meaning. why such a modeling of people is valuable is a different question than how it works. interscience as defined by reproducibility, measurability, falsifiability, etc. as borne out has tended to become a failed project (“a.i.” was deemed a downside back in 2007). so then question of pedigree is not enough (valuability): mechanism independence, estimability (predictive power), testability, theory negotiability (conservatism), sizeability (modularity) of a model explains what some join baruch spinoza in calling the power of the multitude or “collective representations” or “manipulating shadows”* (as fielding and taylor put it).
Krauerking@lemy.lol 11 months ago
Wow. That was nonsense.
Like a word salad of quotes and statements that are taken way out of context to be turned into a story that still in fact does not make any sense cause it just is a collection of sentences. No one else is going to follow that logic without also just pulling their own snippets from it.
You sound a lot like aomeone i know with schizophrenia. I miss her dearly. If you are having a hard time with reality please look for a support group, even if its online and make sure you are talking to other people in reality.
Yes, the world is fucked, but this will not be a good way to experience it.