And you have a fairly close approximation to what I’m on about these days:
“* AmI should facilitate human contact.
* AmI should be orientated towards community and cultural enhancement.
* AmI should help to build knowledge and skills for work, better quality of work, citizenship and consumer choice.
* AmI should inspire trust and confidence.
* AmI should be consistent with long term sustainability - personal, societal and environmental - and with life-long learning.
* AmI should be made easy to live with and controllable by ordinary people.
That language comes from the ISTAG advisory group, and sounds orwellian to me because of exactly how not orwellian they seem to be trying to sound with it. Very interested in this subject as an example of intelligent consumer self-education, langpack updates to things like lifestyle marketing, and PR for the way things are going to be.
I might try to define my interest in “Spiritual Technologies”, post-corporatism, liberated computerism as something more like:
Any successful spiritual technology must be #whatworks constantly trending towards #bestpossible.
- Any successful spiritual technology must not violate the sanctity of the individual or collective body, mind, spirit, heart, being or soul of humanity.
- Any successful spiritual technology should directly facilitate and reward the creative actualization of human potential, the fulfillment of Will, the mastering of the Self and the harmonious co-existence of each being with itself and with its environment, ecosystems, inputs/outputs & feedback loop.
- Any successful spiritual technology must allow direct, open, universal, free, recursive access and multi-dimensional communication and reciprocal exchange to and for all forms and all users (#allformsallusers), regardless of instantiation or manifestation, ontological status within spacetime or other perceiveable units of being in keeping with the spirit of this animating vision.
Whoo, that’s a good start. Felt like a mouthful to get that all out. Now it needs air and a little bit of room to run around… password:isetyoufree
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I just found this link over in synchromystic-land.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture
They really should stop being so subtle about it and change it to I Am…
And Julia, “The Culture” reference came from here, I believe (at least, this was my recent introduction to the term). Eliezer Yudkowsky’s work on imagining what an Friendly AI could be is pretty amazing. 90% of the time, “AI” could just as easily be switched with “God”, or more appropriately “YHWH”, since Eliezer was raised in an Orthodox Jewish environment. If anyone’s going to have some good thoughts on encoding “G.O.D.” it’s someone who shares a background with the kabalists!