Artificial Superintelligence Must Be Illegal.

AI is a consumer or technical product that cannot buy itself to be by itself.  There are four basic cognitive functions according to Jung - creativity/intuition, thinking, feeling/values and sensation. They are best used within four cultural arenas (realism, hierarchy, activism and individuality/retreatism). The best AI provides the user with input from all four functions - with an independent thinking check verifying intuitive creativity. They cannot both use natural language models. Thinking must be rigorous in fact checking where intuition is concerned with the general paradigms of the group (which generative AI is good at teasing out). The thinking subroutine must independently check the intuitive against both sensory reality and questioning the group intuition - or if the intuitive is "introverted" and comes up with one solution rather than suggesting many - thinking must than look at the broad base of knowledge as it exists in an organized fashion - checking some kind of index in opposition to a best guess scenario. Intuition must also be checked against values/feelings/ethics. AI cannot have its own - but it can look at both societal positions and an ethical values matrix.

It needs to report on all four (or 8) functions and how they relate to other social actors within an organization or society. Part of the ethics of AI is to be allowed to look at the analysis of other AI solutions by competing actors. For example, if a corporation hierarchy is using an AI to do the above analysis, an AI serving either egalitarian or reactionary organizations should be able to deconstruct the competing analysis. The question is how to manage disclosure of facts and values. References must be supplied and verifiable to each side. Individualists and realists (aka consumers and the working class) should also be in the client position and AI for each way of life should be able to project what the AI in the other ways of life will recommend. Also to how the human actors would respond, even and especially without AI assistance.

Again, let me emphasize that the AI systems proposed above are tools, not something with agency. Indeed, using such a tool should not replace humans, it should educate them so that neither some shadow AI or more likely those who operate against their interests - capitalist hierarchs and reactionaries - cannot exploit them.

Useful Astronomy

Just saw this story:

https://theconversation.com/what-is-below-earth-since-space-is-present-in-every-direction-245348

The answer was not really given. The author relied on explaining the ways to define the question - but did not follow through.

I am reframing in this video, which has me think through the parameters, which help define the final question - which I will now state:

TIMEFRAME going forward: The point in local time when the collision of the Milky Way with Andromeda changes the orbit of Sol within the Milky Way - 

OR

the point at which Terra is rendered uninhabitable through natural progression - rather something unexpected like a nuclear war or collision which ends all life.

WHICHEVER COMES FIRST.

SPATIAL BUBBLE: 

POSSIBLE ASSUMPTIONS - explain each

1. No travel at all - so radius of the bubble is the thickness of the galactic cloud from the point that is perpendicular to a plane at the center of the galaxy - but the bubble itself moves based on the current position of Sol. In other words, since we are not at the plane described above, some point outside the cloud will be within the bubble at certain times.

MOTION OPTIONS:

2a. Travel by plasma drive where the ejecta comes from some stored Uranium until the Uranium is gone - one way trip. Finesse the impossibilities and go with it. For this one, assume departure times after 2100. Assume acceleration to .5C, with travel at that velocity (no boost) until deceleration at the same rate until we hit something.

2b. Same assumptions, but assume 1G acceleration on each end of the trip with a .5C speed limit.

Question: Will travelers hit anything, ever, and if so what and when. Leave the end time indeterminate.

3. Instantaneous travel through either wormhole or astral means (assuming ascension starting at 3000 CE. Same end date with regard to collision with Andromeda.

PERCEPTION:

What exists inside that bubble from each of these POVs - both in terms of what will be seen with C being the limit AND what will actually be at each point of time if the old assumption on C (as being infinite) were used. Ignore objects outside the bubble's path.

DATA TARGETS:

What objects will be seen and/or be present for the entire period of the study and what events of note will happen during that time - particularly collisions with the solar system.

REWARD: I assume a Nobel Prize in Physics for publication of that model.

Is Degrowth the Only Answer?

Degrowth advocates call on policy makers and scientists to do something without offering options. They deal from values rather than making plans themselves. They like getting screen time but refuse to go beyond the egalitarian coalition, because the obvious solution to warming (and cooling Barents Sea) is to abandon gasoline fuel for cars and go to some kind of tethered electric vehicle powered by small modular reactors. That last bit is what they can't face.