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Philosophy

Global Systemic Discontinuity

Imagine navigating a vast, intricate landscape where every path intertwines, yet no single route offers a complete journey. This is the realm of (a) global systemic discontinuity, a concept that transcends traditional logic and has the potential to reshape our understanding of complex systems. Envision this discontinuity not as a singular, isolated anomaly but as […]

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Philosophy

Reflections

It seems quite petty and inadequate to aspire to “simply” solve just one of the world’s complex problems. Let’s solve them all, simultaneously. What is the one thing that every thing shares? What essence or abstraction binds the world together in some way as “reality” or intelligibility and experience? While it may be possible that […]

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Psychology

Intersecting Sets and Ineliminable Absence

Exploring the intersection of psychoanalysis, negative theology, and the distributed nature of semantics presents a fascinating and complex intellectual challenge. Here’s how these fields might intersect and provide deep insights: The intersection of these disciplines invites us to consider the profound complexity of existence, where understanding is not just about what is present and known, […]

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cybernetics

Von Bertalanffy’s Cybernetic Entropy

Ludwig von Bertalanffy, a biologist and a pioneer of the General Systems Theory, discussed the concept of entropy in relation to system dynamics, particularly in large-scale systems. His views can be summarized as follows: Bertalanffy’s ideas were foundational in the development of systems theory, and his insights into the role of entropy in system dynamics […]

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technology

Language is changing…

In a landscape where technology and language converge, we stand at an intriguing crossroads. Language, traditionally the domain of human thought and expression, now blooms in the realm of AI, independent of its human roots. This evolution heralds a significant shift in how we perceive and engage with this fundamental aspect of our identity. Once […]

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technology

AI Alignment is also a Human Responsibility

In the discourse on artificial intelligence and its integration into society, a pressing concern emerges: the potential inability of humanity to adapt to the transformative changes AI brings. This concern is not rooted in the capabilities of AI itself, but in the human response to its rapid evolution. This blog post examines this issue, structured […]

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Philosophy

The Redundancy of Authorial Intent in an Age of Generative AI Technologies

In the realm of artistic creation, the emergence of artificially intelligent generative technologies heralds a paradigm shift, one that both augments and, paradoxically, dilutes the essence of human creativity. As we stand on the cusp of this technological revolution, it becomes imperative to question the role and significance of authorial intent in the face of […]

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Philosophy

Algorithmic Incompleteness

There may exist fascinating parallels between the recursive nature of advanced AI systems and Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, particularly in the context of self-reference and logical systems. This recursion is a function of the endless reprocessing of cognitive, cultural and technological information in contemporary machine learning pipelines. Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, fundamentally, assert two key points about […]

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politics

Ideological Fortresses

Political positions and ideological fortresses are grounded in the need for and dependence upon antitheses. What may be less obvious is that a communications system signal as gradient of ideological difference embodied in adversarial geopolitics is only ever reproduced in and amplified by that competition. Like the ouroboros, it feeds upon the long tail of […]

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Philosophy

Will AI take Our Jobs?

The core question is that of continuity versus change. Not only do we find the genotypical logic of Aristotelian syllogisms whispering back to us in various ways in and as these aspirationally cognitive technologies, but we also find ourselves engaging in similarly antique philosophical reflections at almost every inflection point. Aligning personal experience and socioeconomic […]

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technology

Linotype Revolution

Ottmar Mergenthaler’s 1884 Linotype machine revolutionised printing by the automation of typesetting. With keyboard inputs, it assembled and cast lines of type, replacing slower manual methods and vastly increasing publishing efficiency. Generative technologies invoke a similarly self-amplifying communications signal regarding an indefinitely extensible logic of engineering the reproductive methods and transmission media of symbolic language.

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Philosophy

AI and You

There is a central self-gravitational pivot and compound acceleration in the distributed, patterned fields of dynamical symmetry that spontaneously emerge as a communications bridge between human experience and artificial intelligence. The first principle to realise is that, just as there can be no ordered descriptions beyond the languages and encoding systems with which we assert […]