Ideas that I’m thinking over. Some will eventually be redesigned and posted in the main blog. But not everything will make it there quickly. A lot of these topics require substantial research. 

  • Review Netflix documentary The Great Hack
  • Review Netflix series Rotten [globalization][unilateralist’s curse][imperialism][capitalism][ecology][Money]

Mr. MOOLENAAR. Thank you. And then, Dr. Doudna, you’re one of the new developers of this new technology, and what was it that first sparked your concern
over the ethics of its use, whether it was in China or when did you start being concerned about that?
Dr. DOUDNA. I guess I realized the potential for this technology to operate in the germline first when scientists began to do experiments of that nature in animal models of disease, including mice and rats, and then it really came home to me in—it was last year—may be almost a year-and-a-half ago that a group again from China published a paper in which they had modified the germline of monkeys and made genetically modified monkeys. And that actual monkey model is used very commonly for studying human disease and so it seemed very likely at that point that there was no reason to think the technology wouldn’t also work in the human germline. So, you know, I think we’ve seen now in the scientific community that this technology is very democratic in the sense that it works across many different types of cells. It doesn’t seem to be limited to a particular system.

  • Review the documentary about CRISPR called un natural selection
  • Review Social choice ethics in artificial intelligence by S. Baum
  • Review Principles alone cannot guarantee ethical AI by Brent Mittelstadt
  • Review Ideal theory in AI ethics (same paper on Semantic Scholar) by Daniel Estrada presented on NeurIPS 2020.
  • Review Human Computation Requires And Enables A New Approach To Ethical review by Human Computation Institute presented on NeurIPS 2020.
  • Write a review on Human Nature Documentary Film Trailer from Wonder Collaborative.
  • Look at the DNA, gene, splicing enzymes, transposable genes, etc. Information theory hypothesis: library of information, encoded information, retranslation, autotuning, steganography, no ultimate goal or all possible informational pools (kaleidoscope)
  • The mode of inheritance is changing. I.e., it is wealth and technology that is inherited; biological health is bought.
  • Argument: Imagine that the ultimate template for a perfect human is found. Do we clone it or provide gene therapy/replacement to conform to this form? Not with our current morals. But how come we still do it on a more subtle level when we declare we know what normal is?
  • Maybe the distress that I feel is a stupidly elaborate way to bring the population to the lower and more appropriate technological states for a biological reform.
  • Do mutations go hand in hand in multiple individuals/species? I think it is improbable that any given mutation is ever alone.
  • What about interactions of mutations in subsequent generations – compounding effects that are staggered?
  • No agency in life matters. Some imagine that they can have it, so they try to emancipate themselves from life constraints. The danger of complete dissolution by complete emancipation even from the biological basis. Nihilists of all moral principles and matter.
  • Capacity for introspection: imaginary, limitless? It is easier to prove that such capacity cannot be had in principle than to abolish every science based on its necessity.
  • Write an essay “what if I was experimenting on life promotion?” a.k.a another advice on how to deal with life retardation. Notes: a tree of life, mutation, inequality, forking alternate lifestreams, sprouts, initially repellent of the two alternatives after sprouting like magnet ends of the same polarity.
  • What is a social revolution (or any radical shift in ideologies)? Does it not need to have a goal? Does it not need to make sure that the new lifestyle does not lead the pre-change state. Is there a meaning in a change if, after a while, things are where they were before or even worse? Cover convergent and divergent processes, local minimus, inadequate disturbance, etc. Work out a good (small, simple, reliable) life example to illustrate the point. Ref: anarchy by Kropotkin (conquest of bread)
  • Deep learning (recommendation A.I.) role is in shaping our tastes, intents. Is advertisement (especially one that hijacks biological instincts to conform, comply and coerce). Slow, incremental effect of advertisement and “education” on customs, traditions, fashion, and even personal tastes.
  • Write a review of the AI Superpowers, China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order.
  • Write a review of the Conscience: The origin of Moral intuition
  • Create and document a full bibliography list. The list is growing out of hand.
  • AI Superpowers book (Lee) depicts a symbiotic relationship and preaches what we currently hold as humanity’s virtue values: humanity, heartiness, empathy, etc. But agriculture, industrial, and AI revolutions and progress, in general, have been supplanting biological roots of these qualities. They are biological evolution results and will be replaced by more practical and necessary features warranting survival under significantly changed conditions. It is foolish to ignore the radically changing relationship between man and environment; man and another man. E.g., reduced or no natural limiting factors, social interactions (especially physical), longevity and strength of family ties, soil and germs of useful culture and traditions. TODO: described all supplanters.
  • Can a machine have feelings or self-awareness? The big question that percolates many minds and doesn’t have a good answer. I will attempt to build a thought framework that would help move a little closer to the answer. Let’s approach it from an anthropological point of view. Here I’m not trying to anthropomorphize AI. This would be silly, and I simply am not going to pretend that I or humans, in general, are capable of knowing if AI could have felt things absolutely unintelligible by humans. But approaching this anthropologically will allow us to find if human-like feelings are even possible in AI.
    • obscure (or unexplainable) human feelings
    • what do we know about pain?
    • pain that is not perceived as pain – eyesight and hearing
    • higher tier perception – music, imagination, expectation, repetition
    • everything ends in the low tier targets – perception of joy (pleasure) and pain
    • progress of explaining human actions and feelings – epistemology
    • deepening the understanding through science and induction
    • when we reach the most detailed level of observation, we see nothing but a composition of processes, each of which would not have a hint of higher-level intelligence
    • a concept explains each primitive process
    • origin of the process composition cannot be explained
    • we cannot explain feelings only because we cannot explain the composition, and regardless of whether we can or cannot explain it, we have them.
    • projecting this onto machines can explain how they could have compositions of fairly simple processes which we might not be able to explain (or even observe) and which would constitute awareness and feelings
    • we argue only about intelligible and never about the unknown. We make obscure and unknown intelligible to argue about it – made up, artificial, invention, and hypothesis.