depression subroutines
thinking of how to apply a programming term to the functions inside a human being. That’s where this curiosity about the term “subroutine” started. I haven’t yet read extensively about it but as far as I have read, it sounds like something we could say to describe the fundamental “wiring” of a person too. As was my exploration in Intimate Immensity, this one too wants to deal with what makes us who we are - often without us consciously processing these functions ourselves.
stuff i still need to read/listen/make notes on:#
what are suffering subroutines
"In computer programming, a subroutine is a sequence of program instructions that perform a specific task, packaged as a unit. [...] In different programming languages, a subroutine may be called a procedure, a function, a routine, a method, or a subprogram."
a dialogue on suffering subroutines
"Agent-like components seem to emerge in many places, and it's plausible this would continue in the computing processes of a future civilization. Whether these subroutines matter, how much they matter, and how to even count them are questions for future generations to figure out, but it's good to keep an open mind to the possibility that our intuitions about what suffering is may change dramatically with new insights."
Star Trekās Instantiation of Consciousness in Subroutines
"This paper will review these programs through a reading of instances of machine intelligence in Star Trek, and will attempt to show that these āethical subroutinesā may well be vital to our continued existence, irrespective of whether machine intelligences constitute Strong or Weak AI. In effect, this paper will analyse the machine analogues of conscience in several Star Trek series, and will do so through an analysis of the android Data and the Emergency Medical Hologram. We will argue that AI should be treated with caution, lest we create powerful intelligences that may not only ignore us but also find us threatening, with unknown and inconceivable consequences."
What Subroutines Are You Running?
"One of the greatest missteps a leader can take is to live an unexamined life. When our subroutines run unchecked beneath the surface, our work, our organizations, and our relationships are unwittingly hijacked by the traits we consign to the shadows. As leaders, the greatest gift we can give to ourselves and others is to choose to make the unconscious conscious."
hyperstition
"Hyperstition is a positive feedback circuit including culture as a component. It can be defined as the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies. Superstitions are merely false beliefs, but hyperstitions ā by their very existence as ideas ā function causally to bring about their own reality. Capitalist economics is extremely sensitive to hyperstition, where confidence acts as an effective tonic, and inversely. The (fictional) idea of Cyberspace contributed to the influx of investment that rapidly converted it into a technosocial reality."
what is wetware!!
"Wetware is used to describe the elements equivalent to hardware and software found in a person, especially the central nervous system (CNS) and the human mind. The term wetware finds use in works of fiction, in scholarly publications[1] and in popularizations. The "hardware" component of wetware concerns the bioelectric and biochemical properties of the CNS, specifically the brain."
two ai related lectures i witnessed against my will and they were surprisingly not terrible:#
introduction to ai by nikola jajcay:
(06/03/2024)
ai/ml is a black box, anything for which we donāt understand the inner workings (requiring input to create any output)
how the mind works is a black box
AI today is essentially a compression tool, āprobablyā not sentient
ācollective dynamicsā (sceintific reductionism vs holistic approach)
āprimerā in ML
convolutional (spatial awareness) x recurrent (time awareness) networks
generative AI: generative adverserial network
he called predictive AI boring cuz its more useful for making human life better
SORA model criticism
human moral, value system and its complexity inhibits us from teaching machines from learning morality ?
understanding AI could help us to learn human intelligence (wild shit)
questions
- in what ways is the AI industry dealing with biases in the models? during the training stage of the model. PHEW. barely addresses it. 4/10. ok asked him specifically and got a decent answer 7/10.
- depiction of ai in popular culture or media? he said space odyssey
look up:
- chaos, universality
- cellular automata; as a way to understand evolution (via artificial chemistry)
- self organisation
- tiktok algorithm; machine learning
- McCulloch and Pitts (og model of artificial neuron)
- back propagational mathematics
- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (AI, ML)
- Psycho Pass (AI, ML)
- Weapons of Math Destruction 2016 book
- singularity x AI
talks on concerns about ai by Åukasz biaÅkowski:
(19/03/2024)
- mainstream narrative of distrust, fear due to misuse and unpredictable nature of ai
- this exhibition does not exist (krakow 2023 gallery asp)
- āwe are dealing with a phenomenon whose mechanics we do not understandā
- current fears of ai in culture are mirroring previous loops of fears of new technologies in the past
- vilem flusserā fears of popular images ā humans will become less and less competent and more and more reliant on apparatuses
- andrew keen (the cult of amateur) ā little bitch man
- R Winiarski, Triptichon 1966
- Liam Gillick āContigent Factorsā in reaction to Claire Bishopsā āAntagonism and Relational Aestheticsā
- Super human fallacy by Seymour Papert – (keya: but ai does not have the burden of being alive or corporeal. i would expect it to do better than us solely because of that.)
- ~ death of the author ~
- investigating american and chinese subjectsā explicit and implicit perceptions of AI generated artistic work ā research paper
- does an emotional connection to art really require a human artist? research paper