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Hey ToKers,
I'm working on a web prototype I hope to finish by August. It's a very basic version of a collective intelligence that integrates all user inputs into what I and my friends call "thought-demographics"...so like, "I drink Green Tea" would be a demographic, with a population of those who share the same expression....or any expression one might care to make.
The following is some of the theory behind it that still blows my mind every time I bother to look deeply into it.
Theoretic Limits of RealTalk.ai (not online yet)
(Hint: there’s no limit. The concept behind the prototype IS the Singularity, the big one, the one TOO BIG TO SEE. While the prototype RealTalk.ai is intended to utilize well-known aspects of social networks, the concept of integrating symbolic expressions to form a collective, interactive representation of society is boundless, inevitable, mindblowingly valuable, and stunningly powerful.)
*The closest thing I've found out there so far to the central concept is collaborative filtering, used for netflix recommendations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering
A similar concept will be used to further integrate society into collective intelligence.
It is akin to the transition from kingdoms to democracies - harnessing greater collective input for greater social union. This time, everyone is president, ...at least somewhat...who knows?
As you read this, try to think of a better way to protect the future from AI tyranny, autocracy, idiocracy, or any other existential threat to society.
The principle will be the structure for entirely new economies and social systems, and the entire internet a stage or two from now.
Ego and profit-motive are the causes of all problems in medicine, science, academia, ..everything. EGO IS ALL.Yet, we are still being domesticated by one-another, and the culture of egioc denial is dying, as our nature so obvious on the media.
The principle will radically augment the following industries and more:
Utilizing crowd epidemiology - potentially curing all diseases.
It will be the greatest social science database of all time.
It will replace the current political charade.
Identity politics will be obliterated by egoic exhaustion and the clear-seeing of the hidden values of other groups in the safety of our homes.
Once it gets a foothold, it will never end, but further integrate towards, and as, the Singularity...but not like it’s been conceived so far...
The concept:
RealTalk.ai is a prototype collective intelligence in the works, based on the inevitable principles of cultural evolution and the integration of broader human intelligence.
While RealTalk.ai is merely a prototype, the concept is inevitable, and massive.
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Each user will have their own set of endorsed or created expressions.
The only risk of privacy is triangulation and estmate.
Users can research their society's values in depth.
At least, small groups and companies can use this, but my prediction is that the general idea is a leap in the evolution of culture.
Old news: Humans are cyborgs, and have been since our tool and symbol use began domesticating us.
New news: Every Human Mind is a kind of artificial intelligence already, as we design our minds...but who designs the mind? I contend each human baby is a kind of AI cultural engineer, a loop between the body-mind and surrounding culture, who cultivates an emergent Tree of Intellect in both the individual mind and the community.
Just as culture is inherently technological, so it is with our minds. New words, concepts, and ways are continually invented, internalized. And, hungry for info, the mind, like an organism unto itself, endlessly seeks to copulate with novelty to give birth to some prestige-offering thought-baby: a trend that will offer or further increase status, a long-life of glory.
The system of symbols in each human brain is an emergent Tree of Knowledge. Young children never know what they will learn or become, but as their Tree rises higher, they acquire a greater view of their landscape, their reality, whether they emphasize the physical, natural, or various social or other landscapes.
Intelligence is evolutionary, systemic and emergent, but also, I contend, essential to our very being, our presence. Intelligence is already infinite, analogue, and combined with increasingly definable stuff. For it is that ineffable whatever, the “I-Am-ness”, that’s behind all the mappable aspects of mind, and it’s like a bottomless white hole. And it’s YOU.
*Personally, I’m confident the duality between the known / knowable and the unknown / unknowable will never end, yet the former will likely grow forever as it encroaches on the ladder, both infinite, but that’s too philosophical for this paper.
Now, about RealTalk.ai:
Imagine each person on the planet copied their mind/memeplex to the web, (as we are already, just not organized, NOT YET INTEGRATED, but soon to be...) such that every shared meme bridged any two or more people into a tribe or “thought-demographic”.
But first, some big-picture stuff on the evolution of culture and tech:
The most constant trend in cosmic evolution, including culture and technology…
(other than the 2nd law of thermodynamics (entropy, or, according to the big picture, what I call the expansion of evolutionary possibilities)
…..Is the accelerating integration of increasing complexity.
Just LOOK:
Earth was a molten rock…
...then hardly a biosphere,
…then the cambrian explosion,
...then early hominids, bands, tribes, kingdoms, parliaments, democracies...
…industry, phone and airlines, then the web, social networks…
...each stage both more complex and integrated than before.
“Historically, we have seen an overarching trend towards the emergence of higher levels of social organization, from hunter-gatherer bands, to chiefdoms, city-states, nation states, and now multinational organizations, regional alliances, various international governance structures, and other aspects of globalization. Extrapolation of this trend points to the creation of a SINGLETON.” - Nick Bostrom.
SINGLETON - a world order in which there is a single decision-making agency at the highest level.
It’s in Nick Bostrom’s interest to shout wolf. I would if I were him, and believe it too as that too would be in my interest were I in his shoes. But from where I look, the inevitable singleton must be collective AND singular at the same time.
Journey into this concept and you will continually find more and more epiphanies, an endless resource for the practical dreamer. Your vision for the future will rise so high above your peers, you won’t speak their language anymore.
I’ve written hundreds of pages on this idea, and feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface. It’s TOO BIG TO SEE. Maybe some people have more trouble visualizing the endless, accelerating integration of complexity, let alone come up with a prototype that harnesses the principles.
One thing this has is moral power...but moral power is a popularity contest that only bends to the truth when it has to.
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