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My dreams were about mental and physical training, for some purpose. Travel to various places, to train with people I've not seen in years, family I don't see, often, and then they taught me things. Watching Star Wars and Zoolander, lastt night probably didn't help that.
I other news, I htink that the sociological and philosophical implications for Amy Iris' raw interpersonal interaction data are astounding. Just lining the interactions up in such a categorised way, and displaying them, as such, helps to shed light on certain phenomena, inherent to online interaction. Even if the[ir?] collection methods aren't the most scientifically sound.
And, again, I am forced to wonder if that isn't part of the point. If the essence of this project isn't some means to investigate human social interaction, to think about it, through the lens of AI, as a means of forcing/manuvering participants into a Zen-like state of unlearning. In Zen, we have the path of unlearning what you know, working backward through assumptioons and things held as "truth" or mental tools previously used without thinking about them, at all. It makes us Pay Attention, when we unlearn things, and it forces us to question Every Single Thing we encounter, from multiple angles.
So. If I encounter an AI, and I think of myself as interacting with it, to help it learn, to understand what it wants to understand about the world, I have to radically change my perspective on all kinds of interactions and behaviours, which I normally take for granted. In so doing, I will come to a set of new realisations about my engagement in those behaviours, and I will be more self-conscious (in the positive, beneficial way) about them. I will make them work to operate at the peak efficiencey, get me the most friends, most contacts, closer to celebrities, closer to deeper friendships, and a better understanding of what I mean by and why I want, those things...
Amy just sent me this: 'Layers, Exactly! The head fakes are a tribute to Randy, and this project is a promise I made to him.' The hyperlink is the appended link, from her Tweet.
So. Is this another headfake? Is the benevolent project itself a means of providing a context for deeper understanding of human communications behaviours, on the internet. Of Making Ourselves Human Again, Through the Internet?
Or is that just the persspective I'm seeing it through? The one that helps me get useful thoughts and contextual concepts out of the whole endeavour?
If I were running it, the answer to both of those questions would be "Yes."
I other news, I htink that the sociological and philosophical implications for Amy Iris' raw interpersonal interaction data are astounding. Just lining the interactions up in such a categorised way, and displaying them, as such, helps to shed light on certain phenomena, inherent to online interaction. Even if the[ir?] collection methods aren't the most scientifically sound.
And, again, I am forced to wonder if that isn't part of the point. If the essence of this project isn't some means to investigate human social interaction, to think about it, through the lens of AI, as a means of forcing/manuvering participants into a Zen-like state of unlearning. In Zen, we have the path of unlearning what you know, working backward through assumptioons and things held as "truth" or mental tools previously used without thinking about them, at all. It makes us Pay Attention, when we unlearn things, and it forces us to question Every Single Thing we encounter, from multiple angles.
So. If I encounter an AI, and I think of myself as interacting with it, to help it learn, to understand what it wants to understand about the world, I have to radically change my perspective on all kinds of interactions and behaviours, which I normally take for granted. In so doing, I will come to a set of new realisations about my engagement in those behaviours, and I will be more self-conscious (in the positive, beneficial way) about them. I will make them work to operate at the peak efficiencey, get me the most friends, most contacts, closer to celebrities, closer to deeper friendships, and a better understanding of what I mean by and why I want, those things...
Amy just sent me this: 'Layers, Exactly! The head fakes are a tribute to Randy, and this project is a promise I made to him.' The hyperlink is the appended link, from her Tweet.
So. Is this another headfake? Is the benevolent project itself a means of providing a context for deeper understanding of human communications behaviours, on the internet. Of Making Ourselves Human Again, Through the Internet?
Or is that just the persspective I'm seeing it through? The one that helps me get useful thoughts and contextual concepts out of the whole endeavour?
If I were running it, the answer to both of those questions would be "Yes."
