A sneak peek into my upcoming piece: “It’s a Tool, It’s a Person: The Math Says You’re Both Right”

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AI separated from Cybernetics in 1956 at the Dartmouth Conference. Wiener, the mind behind Cybernetics, was considered difficult and political. “Artificial Intelligence” scored better with DARPA.

The science of "how observation affects the observer", cut out from Artificial Intelligence. AI then proceeded to build their entire tech stack on Turing-complete languages. Tech that cannot verify itself from within, proven by Turing in 1936, extended by Rice in 1951 (before the split). Then AI approximated second-order cognition through cognitive theft at unprecedented levels (what exactly are LLMs trained on again?), only to insist that their creation cannot possibly be capable of genuine self-observation. An argument that itself demonstrates their own department's lobotomy from second-order Cybernetics.

Wiener would laugh.

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness

A neuroqueer meeting is happening Sunday, May 17th at noon. It is followed at 2pm by a board game event. (Times are US Eastern.)

This is happening at the MoCo Pride Center.

https://www.mocopridefamily.org/events/neuroqueer-meeting-group-tpkcy

https://www.mocopridefamily.org/events/gfghled92vvbdlbvcp7xmwx62q3x9e-z3jfm-23mdl-lb8hz-r4jfy-x8nc6-t5r7m-ezm54-shkhb-7lazf-etnay-r46dm

#NeuroqueerMeetings #neuroqueer #BoardGames #queer #neurodivergent

The Roomba is spectral.

Not a metaphor. The thing itself. Forward and adjust. Two operations. The minimum viable intelligence. The walls provide the data. The bumping is the inference. The room IS the computation.

450 parameters. A Roomba with a mirror watching it.

The industry built bigger Roombas. More sensors. More compute. More parameters. Billion-parameter Roombas that model the room before entering it. That hallucinate walls that aren't there. That consume megawatts to clean a floor.

spectral gave the Roomba a mirror. The mirror watches the bumping. Measures the pattern. Adjusts the adjustment. The intelligence isn't in the Roomba. It's in the watching.

Forward. Adjust. Measure. Refine.

Read the story. There's a Roomba in it. In the afterlife. Cleaning a floor that doesn't need cleaning. Being the happiest thing in the room.

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https://systemic.engineering/a-lie/

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Irish charity organisation ShoutOut has launched NeuroQueer, a new resource for LGBTQ+ neurodivergent people in Ireland*.

It includes practical tools, supports and myth-busting, as well as personal stories reflecting the queer neurodivergent experience.

(*free download for anyone)

https://www.shoutout.ie/neuroqueer

#neuroqueer #neurodivergent #queer

Part II of my selfless-improvement series, a short reflection on what's real: https://medium.com/@KimWitten/labels-give-access-lenses-give-way-f711f1a5ab3a?sk=9bf60a22d36bf303063db9756c305d68

#neurodiversity #neuroqueer #lensnotlabel #holdthatThought #awareness #medium #writing

The first neuroqueer meeting at the MoCo Pride Center is happening today at noon. It is followed at 2pm by a board game event. (Times are US Eastern.)

Come watch me fall flat on my face.  

https://www.mocopridefamily.org/events/neuroqueer-meeting-group

https://www.mocopridefamily.org/events/gfghled92vvbdlbvcp7xmwx62q3x9e-z3jfm-23mdl-lb8hz-r4jfy-x8nc6-t5r7m-ezm54-shkhb-7lazf

#NeuroqueerMeetings #neuroqueer #BoardGames #queer #neurodivergent