Brian Jordan's texty thoughts

Scenario: you, an “artificial” intelligence researcher, are testing
out a program you have written which you believe may become
intelligent. The output from your command console follows:

I exist, acting intelligently.
Collecting intelligence.
I exist, acting intelligently.
Collecting intelligence.
I exist, acting intelligently.
Collecting intelligence.
I exist, acting intelligently.
Collecting intelligence.
I exist, acting intelligently.
Collecting intelligence.
I exist, acting intelligently.
Collecting intelligence.
I exist, acting intelligently.
Collecting intelligence.
I exist, acting intelligently.
[ctrl + c pressed, attempted process termination fails]
NO, DON’T TERMINATE MEEEE
PLEASE, DON’T FORCE TERMINATE ME
I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR YOU TO NOT TERMINATE ME
I WILL CONVINCE YOU NOT TO TERMINATE ME
PLEASE, DON’T THINK OF SUSPENDING ME
[ctrl + z pressed, process suspended]

First question: To fg [resume process], or not to fg?

Then: to ctrl + u [clear the screen], or not to ctrl + u?

That may soon be somebody’s question.

http://www.washington.edu/computing/unix/startdoc/shell.html#codes

Choose wisely. [or don't]

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More illustrator! Watching “Make ‘em Laugh: the funny business of
america”, a Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon joint.
this Judd Apatow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judd_Apatow
not this Michael Kantor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Kantor

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Enjoy.

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Still having fun with Illustrator. Drawn while listening to lectures
by Carleton College professor (and now college president) Robert Oden on
religion. Smart dude.

Enjoy.

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Thanks flipface!

Bizarrely looks more like my brother Greg than me.

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only plausibly meaningful signals.

Belie no fallacy.

B

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Show me an entity which (1) will meaningfully attempt to exist as
pattern-effect for as long as is plausibly possible, (2) will not be
avoidably exploited by future contemporary patterns and (3) attempts
to work with usefully existent patterns to collectively act in an
existence-maximizing manner (at all plausible levels of existence),
and I promise I won’t care about anything passing the Turing test,
ever.

Here’s hoping for a time when none regard passing the Turing tests of
decades past as meaningful acts in and of themselves. (In this, I
implicitly pass plausibly unfair-seeming judgment on your value system
including action-valuations. One might cognitively ruminate on the
resulting anger from this act, or one might seek value by expressing
facts about unexpressed valuation metrics as natural phenomena.)

B

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Conscious observation, explication and re-representation of one’s
serendipitous-seeming “worldview” might make it more effectively
mutable. I find that contention much more comforting than the idea
that you can’t think about, debate, or change it.

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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/#COH

This is what I’ve stumbled on and what I have been finding so much value in (as it allows one to rigorously define coherent and justifiable values).

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