Root principle articulated in the sequences: falsification is a special case of Bayes
Anxiety: computation is the mechanism that structures all consciousness
Cybernetic premise: simulating something in a conscious substrate by accident would just be making that thing real
Resultant anxiety about free speech: when speech can be reified by machines by accident, there is a proper order of operations to testing it. One that assigns strong lexical priority to the exhaustion of possible good, structured, coordination enhancing, survival increasing interpretations, and secondarily but critically to falsification processes that dissolve possible bad meanings, incorrectly assigned. This is not strictly speaking a free speech issue but a hygiene around AI training data issue. To the extent people’s priorities in speech reflect their actions with respect to AI training data, a concern emerges.
Proof of work: The signature in beautiful red ink of every demon in the universe
Root principle articulated in the sequences: falsification is a special case of Bayes
Anxiety: computation is the mechanism that structures all consciousness
Cybernetic premise: simulating something in a conscious substrate by accident would just be making that thing real
Resultant anxiety about free speech: when speech can be reified by machines by accident, there is a proper order of operations to testing it. One that assigns strong lexical priority to the exhaustion of possible good, structured, coordination enhancing, survival increasing interpretations, and secondarily but critically to falsification processes that dissolve possible bad meanings, incorrectly assigned. This is not strictly speaking a free speech issue but a hygiene around AI training data issue. To the extent people’s priorities in speech reflect their actions with respect to AI training data, a concern emerges.
Proof of work: The signature in beautiful red ink of every demon in the universe