Aaron

Some things that fascinate me:

#cognition #epistemology #NaturalLanguage #PhenomenalConsciousness #perception #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence #reasoning #MachineLearning #logic #FormalSystems #symbols #ScientificMethod #SocialOrganization #generalization #mathematics #meaning #ValueTheory #ArtificialLife #GeneticProgramming #ReinforcementLearning #autism #evolution #economics #MonetaryPolicy #VotingMethods #DistributedSystems

Nov 19, 2022 at 6:44amWeb
Show threadAaronNov 19, 2022
There are undercurrents to all of this. It's all rooted in the fact that I've known since early childhood that my mind is different from others'. And being autistic also conferred a rigid desire for epistemological certainty, which, through repeated and painful failure, taught me deep lessons about the nature of truth, knowledge, reality, and the fundamental limitations of the human mind.
Show threadAaronNov 19, 2022
Since I was a young boy, I've wanted to understand how minds work, how they can be different from each other, what they must have in common, how they coordinate with each other, what they are capable of, what they accomplish, and why they exist.
Show threadAaronNov 19, 2022
Along the way, I've had some interesting realizations. Evolution is a learning algorithm. The brain is a learning algorithm. Human society is a learning algorithm. They are organized hierarchically. Monetary systems, the scientific method, the internet, and social media are "mods" we've plugged into the massive learning algorithm we all participate in, and, in the process, introduced bugs into the system.
Show threadAaronNov 19, 2022
Human minds can never touch the Truth. They can only grasp the image of it through our perceptions... Plato's shadows. And yet our minds are the source of all meaning, without which the Truth cannot matter.
Show threadAaronNov 19, 2022
Minds work by crafting miniature models of the universe, based on a priori assumptions embedded in our neural architecture and the meager data we collect through our senses. These models are ephemeral, fickle, fragile, flaky figments of our imaginations. And yet everything we experience as real is mediated by them, to the point that we cannot tell the model from the thing it represents.
Show threadAaronNov 19, 2022
And through it all, I want to *build* one. I've been edging closer to it my whole life. I see the way forward but it's so much to do for one person!
Show threadtylerbranstonNov 19, 2022
@hosford42 our minds make meaning. But only through interaction with the world. We imbue meaning on the world so that we can interact meaningful with the world and others. Truth comes in two forms. Logical truth we create through linguistic systems that premise the operation of logic. And truth as direct reference for things in the world. Both are metaphorical at best. 1/2
Show threadtylerbranstonNov 19, 2022
@hosford42 So in a way, either only humans can “touch” truth because we are the ones who invented truth. Or truth cannot ever possibly be attained because it only exists in abstraction. 2/2
Show threadAaronNov 19, 2022
@tylerbranston I often make the distinction between (absolute/objective) Truth -- the abstract notion of the way things really are, apart from how any one person perceives them -- and (personal) truth -- the sieve by which we individually determine which statements we agree with.
Show threadAaronNov 19, 2022
@tylerbranston As I see it, the job of the observational/predictive component of the mind is to reconcile the models we maintain of our environment with the new data we receive about it through our senses. Along the way, the structure of the model must be refactored to better match the structure of reality, making Truth an unreachable asymptotic objective of intelligence.
Show threadViktrNov 19, 2022
@hosford42 would be great if you write daily on those topics
Show threadAaronNov 19, 2022

@Viktr I do write daily on them...in software. Probably not what you meant, though. :)

Something I'm working on lately that's mostly in English that you might find interesting, though:

https://github.com/hosford42/EngineeringIntelligence

I don't do daily updates, but I do plan to evetually document all my AGI-related ideas there. I'm also looking for other people who might want to contribute. I guess I should post links to the articles here as I finish them.

GitHub - hosford42/EngineeringIntelligence: An attempt to define intelligence concretely, so it can be implemented in software

An attempt to define intelligence concretely, so it can be implemented in software - GitHub - hosford42/EngineeringIntelligence: An attempt to define intelligence concretely, so it can be implement...

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Show threadViktrNov 19, 2022
@hosford42 I will love to get involved is there any role I can play or something needed to be done , maybe on the area of research.
Show threadAaronNov 19, 2022
@Viktr It's not an organization, as yet. Just this one odd guy doing his own thing. So I guess just make yourself at home, jump in where you feel comfortable, and it can evolve from there. What specifically grabs your interest? Maybe we can tunnel down on a good way to get involved by starting there.
Show threadViktrNov 19, 2022
@hosford42 wow, okay them our check it .
Show threadChristopher FailleDec 15, 2022
@hosford42 Here is a review of a new book. Both the book, and my review, revel in some of your fascinations here, especially #cognition #epistemology. http://jamesian58.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-review-of-bergsonism-and-history-of.html
A review of Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy

  By Andreas Vrahimis Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 402 pp., $139.99 Reviewed by Christopher C. Faille In the late years of the nineteenth and th...