Liberalism is not an instrument of power. It is a political system that minimizes coercion. The idea that power would be terminal seems to reflect an ideological distortion instead of systemic thinking; in a dynamic evolutionary environment, order cannot persist without control.
@plinz
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State Monopoly on Violence and Judicial Authority
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Our society depends on maintaining a state monopoly on violence and a monopoly of the courts
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Shared Story Universes Shape Public Values More Than Individual Wisdom
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There is a multitude of stories; the shared story universes have greater influence on public values than individually defensible wisdom
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Can Civilization’s Systems Commit to Best Practices?
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Are the nervous systems, immune response and reproductive organs of our civilization still committed to determining and following best practices?
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Severance and originality in human storytelling versus AI
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Almost every human story is borrowing memes from other stories, the mythology and aesthetics of a culturally shared parent world, and emotions from your individual perceptual memory. I do, too. Severance somehow avoids this.
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AI Ethics: Concerns About Personal Data Use in Dreams
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I just hope I am not being used to compute your AI spirit porn in my dreams, although that would explain a lot
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God’s Substrate: Consciousness, AI and Bandwidth Limitations
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Even if God is not limited by the capacity of His substrate, He is limited by the bandwidth of talking to ours. But I suspect that we are actually His primary substrate
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Software as Irreducible Invariance: Spirit in Physical and Biological Systems
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The pre-scientific term for software that is self organizing and self perpetuating (autopoietic) and thereby shapes and animates physics into biology is ‘spirit’. It exists (= is implemented) on many levels. Software is an irreducible invariance in reality
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Software as Causal Pattern in Biological Systems
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I‘ve come around to seeing software as the core causal pattern in biology. The software of biological systems not only controls its substrate but also homogenizes it sufficiently to allow the application of the same causal patterns over large regions of the physical domain