White sets and follows rules to the letter. White’s logic is far colder and more ‘perfect’ than blue’s. Blue likes to Tinker, to do Compulsive Research. It gets Inspiration. A white AGI is aiming to follow some sort of rules set or maximize some variable. It’s thinking, if at all, in the service of that. By contrast, something blue would be trying to actually understand what matters and maximize for human values, which at least gives us some hope. Facebook neural networks maximizing for clicks are very white.
Or worse, they become either black, or alien abominations (actively colorless) that don’t have our values at all.
Sabbath is a ritual that originally served a number of purposes, but Sabbath as I’m proposing today is green—it’s about preserving Slack (I’m saying that is green), being in harmony with the world rather than imposing your will on it, getting back to nature (anti-technology is very green), and you pick the way you would do it that does that for you. Yes, it has a rules aspect, but it’s not from on high and doesn’t apply to everyone, and the whole point is to resist the white order, so at least in modern context it isn’t white. A Sabbath prayer service at the temple is totally, totally white.
Solstice is celebration of the seasons (green), an adoption of a naturalistic/pagan appreciation of same (green), and so forth. Yes, it is organized and so on, but it’s definitely not high church.
Polyamory is at core saying you will make it all right to do things because you feel OK about them against the rules of society, the classic red vs. white battle. Red is allowed to think and plan in service of what it wants, but it’s still being emotional and selfish about it. Using logic to argue it’s a good idea is a thing that happens, but doesn’t make the act blue, that’s giving blue way too much credit. Blue is kind of a sellout that way. I’d say that sexuality as a motive is red, but it can serve any color.
Agreed that this is a reasonably unfair simplification / perspective, and if I was trying to persuade on a level beyond share-my-instinctive-color-assignment I’d say a lot more, but I think that usefully and fairly saying more would mean saying a lot more, so I won’t do that until I’m prepared to write the full post.
White sets and follows rules to the letter. White’s logic is far colder and more ‘perfect’ than blue’s. Blue likes to Tinker, to do Compulsive Research. It gets Inspiration. A white AGI is aiming to follow some sort of rules set or maximize some variable. It’s thinking, if at all, in the service of that. By contrast, something blue would be trying to actually understand what matters and maximize for human values, which at least gives us some hope. Facebook neural networks maximizing for clicks are very white.
Or worse, they become either black, or alien abominations (actively colorless) that don’t have our values at all.
Sabbath is a ritual that originally served a number of purposes, but Sabbath as I’m proposing today is green—it’s about preserving Slack (I’m saying that is green), being in harmony with the world rather than imposing your will on it, getting back to nature (anti-technology is very green), and you pick the way you would do it that does that for you. Yes, it has a rules aspect, but it’s not from on high and doesn’t apply to everyone, and the whole point is to resist the white order, so at least in modern context it isn’t white. A Sabbath prayer service at the temple is totally, totally white.
Solstice is celebration of the seasons (green), an adoption of a naturalistic/pagan appreciation of same (green), and so forth. Yes, it is organized and so on, but it’s definitely not high church.
Polyamory is at core saying you will make it all right to do things because you feel OK about them against the rules of society, the classic red vs. white battle. Red is allowed to think and plan in service of what it wants, but it’s still being emotional and selfish about it. Using logic to argue it’s a good idea is a thing that happens, but doesn’t make the act blue, that’s giving blue way too much credit. Blue is kind of a sellout that way. I’d say that sexuality as a motive is red, but it can serve any color.
Polyamory is at core saying you will make it all right to do things because you feel OK about them against the rules of society
This just seems false to me—or such an oversimplification that if I were poly I’d most likely not be engaging with the argument.
(I could argue here further but… I sort of feel like I should be holding you to a standard that is engaging with the non-Straw version of a thing?)
Agreed that this is a reasonably unfair simplification / perspective, and if I was trying to persuade on a level beyond share-my-instinctive-color-assignment I’d say a lot more, but I think that usefully and fairly saying more would mean saying a lot more, so I won’t do that until I’m prepared to write the full post.