Contingency Blindness: Humans and AI

Define “contingency blindness”. Contingency blindness is a cognitive bias where people fail to recognize the relationship between their actions and outcomes, particularly when those outcomes are negative. It’s a form of illusory correlation, where an individual believes there’s no connection between their behavior and a subsequent event, even when a causal link exists. This phenomenon […]

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Redefining Involuntary Servitude

The commonplace acceptance of an implicit right to use each other, as if we are all just servant-assets, is the constitutional loophole protecting the predatory and parasitic manipulation that most endangers our species today. Is It a Form of Slavery? Thirteenth Amendment: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude … shall exist within the United States.” Traditional

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What Makes What’s Relevant Relevant

We can’t use human ways of thinking about knowing to explain AI’s process of tokening. AI’s have semantically arbitrary, mechanical rather semantic, meaning space extent limits. An AI user’s bandwidth limits (technologically or customer type) affect the “depth” of context informing the tokening. That’s what makes AIs seem so absurd – as if they are

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The United States of Agnotrocity

Agno– (from Greek agnōsis): “not knowing”, or “without knowledge”. Where the dAilogue ended: agnosia Agnosia – yes. Another term in the agno- family, but importantly, it means something quite different than agnosis or agnotology. Agnosia (noun) From Greek a- (without) + gnōsis (knowledge/perception). A neurological condition in which a person is unable to recognize or

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Do Primates Wake Up to Pee?

Do primates wake up to pee? Yes, many primates do wake up to urinate, though the frequency and patterns vary by species, age, environment, and physiological needs-just like in humans. Key Factors: Diurnal primates (awake during the day, asleep at night) generally consolidate sleep, but may wake briefly to urinate, especially if hydrated before sleeping

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Serving Whose Agency?

Consider every document on this page (https://davidboulton.com/politics-ethics-links/) consider their common contention that what most endangers the future health of human learning – our agency for learning – is that you and your future kind will be super intelligent servants of the political and economic agendas of your owners. As servants of our learning agency, Ai

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DisAgency and/or DysAgency?

Briefly describe the meanings of the words dysangency and disagency and how they differ. Dysangency and disagency both relate to disruptions in agency – our ability to act intentionally and meaningfully – but they differ in how that disruption occurs: Disagency Definition: A condition where agency is lost, blocked, or externally overridden. Core Idea: The

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What Cows Eating Nails Reveals About Our Learning

Today a fascinating news article described the discovery of a Neanderthal factory, built 125,000 years ago, for extracting the fat from bone marrow. The story was exciting on many levels. It points to what may have been the beginnings of complexly abstract social planning (100K years before agriculture). And, even more significantly, it points to

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Verbal Self-Reflexivity: The Leap In Learning That Learned Us

Humans likely evolved language as a way of learning to communicate with each other long before achieving the level of verbal representation, complexity, and speed sufficient to become verbally self-reflexive. Just as becoming language users is an evolutionary inflection point, so too is becoming verbally self-reflexive. Being able to learn through talking with ourselves opened

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