#interrelationships

[protoslacker]

Nora quotes Gregory, as he was fond of saying "A falling leaf is not just that and nothing more, things are implicit in other ways.” In response, she has nurtured what she calls "warm data.” It is defined as: "Transcontextual information about the interrelationships that integrate a complex system." She also coined the word "symmathesy" which is “to generate mutual learning contexts through the process of interaction between multiple variables in a living entity.”

Kenneth Silvestri in Psychology Today. A Book Review of Nora Bateson’s “Combining”

How possibilities bring things together.

Combining by Nora Bateson

[cissa-calls]

Please give us an episode that’s at least 45 minutes, an hour if a miracle is on the docket. Please. I can’t wait another week for 25 more minutes. I mean I WILL but I don’t wanna

[sivavakkiyar]

Another one that’s kind of funny—-this one is funny because I was so confident but so wrong. In Persona 5 you can name the Thieves whatever you want, technically, so I named them ‘The Fantomas’ after the famous literary criminal—-and I was shocked to find that they never referenced him explicitly in game. That game is so erudite! And so much of the imagery was so obviously ‘influenced’ by him (he’s very broadly influential, so I thought it was all very coincidental, see)! I thought that was weird.

After I played it I reread the first Fantomas book which I hadn’t done in years and I remembered one of his whole *things* is sending a calling card. So I looked it up, and this is so obvious considering Japan’s long-standing interest in French culture—-something I’m into wrt music—-but Fantomas has never been huge huge in the US, but again like much of the world he’s been known in Japan for a long time. So it’s not that they ‘forgot to reference’ a character who was obscure to me: it’s that they thought the reference was so obvious they didn’t need to mention it explicitly. Hilarious and humbling

[gintrinsic-writing]

One minute into season 2 of Wheel of Time and I’m already shaking my head.

[foggytiredwombat]

Agreeable Haru my ass

[myopinionisimportant]

I play Darkest Dungeon 2 in the same way I've played Dwarf Fortress: the world may be hostile and deadly, and there's a good chance everyone will die, but I'm gonna do my level best to keep everyone alive - and, if possible, sane and happy too.

For a world that's been overcome by chaotic magic and evil cults, the game is strangely relaxing!

[falseandrealultravival]

"We has a Robots": Founder of Techno Pop = Kraftwerk (Essay)

: The Robots

German rock band Kraftwerk were the founders of the 'techno pop' that took the world by storm, spawning a slew of followers like Japan's YMO and Britain's OMID. I remember YMO's Haruomi Hosono saying, "We have to make a song that's worthy of Kraftwerk's concept."

I still have the impression that the band Kraftwerk wrote their songs based on their own reflections on the interrelationship between humans and technology.

Here is one song "Robot" recorded in the album "Man Machine". This song (like all Kraftwerk songs) is a song made up of simple phrases, rhythms, and repetitions.

Of interest is the phrase "We has a Robots" repeated over and over again. Don't you think this English is very strange? Although "we" is plural, the verb that receives it is the third person singular "has", and the singular indefinite article "a" is the plural "Robots"!

No matter how you look at it, these four words violate the rules of English grammar. Was Kraftwerk poor at English grammar because he was German? But I think Kraftwerk deliberately created this connection of words.

Let's do some thinking here. The important thing in the above interpretation is the verb (3rd person, singular, present tense of has: have). Instead of interpreting it as the subject we (humans), how about interpreting it as a robots, where robots own humans? In that case, we becomes the object, and using us is the least grammatically correct. In other words, "Robots own humans and can do what they want."

[englishlanguageday]

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[artspace11275201418]

The Potential of Artificial Intelligence to Supplement Human Intelligence

The convergence of human and artificial intelligence (AI) in the modern world is changing how we work, live, and think. While AI is frequently viewed as a disruptive force that could eventually replace people in a variety of jobs, it also has the power to improve human cognition and make us more intelligent, productive, and creative. This blog examines the complex interrelationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and human intellect, focusing on how AI can be a potent tool to enhance and improve human skills.

Knowledge of Human Intelligence`

It's important to define human intelligence before delving into the field of artificial intelligence. Reasoning, problem-solving, creativity, and emotional intelligence are just a few of the many cognitive skills that make up the complex idea of human intelligence. It's what makes us unique from other animals and has made it possible for us to advance technologically, build civilizations, and comprehend the intricacies of the cosmos.

However, intelligence is flexible and may be improved in a number of ways; it is not fixed. Human intellect can be traditionally increased by exposure to new ideas, education, and experience. With its enormous potential, artificial intelligence provides a fresh approach to this improvement.

Using AI as a Cognitive Helper

As a cognitive assistant, AI is one of the most obvious ways it raises human intelligence. AI systems can swiftly sort through enormous volumes of data, evaluate it, and offer insightful conclusions since they are outfitted with strong algorithms and data processing skills. This saves time, but it also improves our capacity for making decisions.

1. Analysis of Data

AI can assist professionals in domains like finance and medicine in making more precise investment or diagnosis decisions. AI systems, for instance, are capable of examining medical records and finding trends that human physicians would miss. Similar to this, AI can analyze complicated data in the financial markets to forecast market trends and maximize investment returns.

2. Innovative Support

AI is useful for more than just data analysis; it may also support artistic activities. AI-driven tools, for example, can produce literature, art, and even music. Even though the validity of AI-generated art is still up for debate, it is clear that AI may inspire human creativity and develop novel concepts.

3. Tailored Education

AI-powered learning systems are able to adjust to each student's unique learning demands and style. Students will receive the most pertinent information and support thanks to this personalization of education, which will eventually improve their comprehension of the material and general intelligence.

Solving Issues and Automation

AI's capacity for problem-solving can be used to address challenging problems in a variety of fields. Artificial intelligence (AI) can streamline procedures and provide solutions to issues that would take a great deal of time for humans to find in sectors like engineering and logistics.

1. Design and Engineering

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in engineering may identify structural flaws, optimize and model designs, and increase productivity. Better and safer products are produced as a result, and the process of product development is accelerated.

2. The Supply Chain and Logistics

AI is essential to supply chain operations optimization. It may reduce transportation expenses, forecast demand, and even control inventory, all of which save money and improve the use of available resources.

3. Medical Care

AI in healthcare can help with disease outbreak prediction, treatment plan personalization, and drug discovery. AI-driven analytics combined with human knowledge has the potential to save lives and raise the standard of healthcare.

The Dimension of Ethics

AI has the amazing potential to increase human intelligence, but there are ethical issues with it as well. To make sure that new technologies enhance human intelligence without endangering it, proper usage of AI is crucial.

1. Fairness and Bias

Biases in training data can be inherited by AI systems. It is essential to continuously monitor and modify AI algorithms in order to guarantee fairness and prevent the reinforcement of societal biases.

2. Security and Privacy

Because AI is data-driven, it is important to be vigilant about safeguarding people's security and privacy. Cyber threats such as identity theft and data breaches might result from unauthorized access to AI systems.

3. Loss of Employment

It is reasonable to be concerned that AI will eventually replace human workers. Even if AI can improve human capabilities, the worker still needs to be retrained and upskilled in order to keep up with the ever-evolving labor market.

Combining AI with Human Intelligence

The capacity of AI to collaborate with human intelligence is where its real promise lies. Here are a few instances of how AI and people may work together to produce amazing outcomes:

1. A medical diagnosis

By using AI techniques to evaluate medical photos, doctors can expedite diagnosis and obtain a second opinion. But ultimately, the doctor makes the final call by combining human judgment with AI's analytical prowess.

2. Innovative Creativity

AI is capable of producing concepts, layouts, and melodies, which human artists and designers can then expand upon. When humans and AI work together, new and fascinating things are produced.

3. Instruction

While AI-powered tutors can help students grasp difficult material, teachers offer the human touch required for inspiration and guidance. This combination improves the educational process.

AI and Human Intelligence's Future

Artificial intelligence and human intellect have a dynamic relationship that will only grow in the future. Here are a few noteworthy upcoming developments:

1. BCIs, or brain-computer interfaces

Direct brain-to-computer communication (BCI) is a rapidly developing field. The way we engage with AI could be completely changed by this technology, which makes it possible to incorporate AI skills naturally into human mental processes.

2. Responsible and Ethical AI

The emphasis on developing and using AI in an ethical and responsible manner will grow as these technologies become more integrated into our daily lives. Standards and regulations will be essential in ensuring that AI is applied for the good of humankind.

3. Enhanced Sensations

Artificial Intelligence can improve human sensory perception. For instance, visually challenged people can receive real-time information from visual AI systems, allowing them to "see" the environment differently.

4. Customized Medical Care

AI-powered health tracking and therapy regimens will get more customized. People will be able to take charge of their health and avoid illnesses by using wearable technology and AI algorithms. This will improve peoples' general well-being.

In summary

Instead of being human intelligence's enemy, artificial intelligence is a potent friend. It may improve our cognitive capacities, empowering us to tackle challenging issues, come to wiser conclusions, and reach new heights of creativity. It's critical to approach AI development and application responsibly, making sure that it enhances rather than replaces human intelligence, in order to fully realize the benefits of AI. The combination of artificial intelligence and human intelligence portends a future full of limitless possibilities for development, advancement, and expansion.

[lrdmdnght]

Why must I belong to a small, basically fandomless fandom. I NEED TO TALK ABOUT THEM. I NEED TO TALK ABOUT ALL OF THEM, BUT NONE KNOWS ABOUT THEM AND EVEN IF I TRIED TO TALK ABOUT THEM IT'S NOT LIKE THE MEDIA IS FANDOM FRIENDLY THIS IS THE WORST THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

Someone who understands Spanish, isn't too triggered by cis straight white dudes rping as gang members in GTA and is willing to get into a really entertaining twitch series so they can discuss it with me, hit me up

[specialagentartemis]

godddddd i have disliked becky chambers' work since long way to a small angry planet and I agree that that fish scene is SO much of what is wrong with contemporary SFF especially queer SFF. refreshing take, great review, thank you. would love to hear what authors or works you think of as the antidote to that sensibility.

The thing is, I enjoyed The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet when I first read it - it was a fun, light adventure, clearly a debut novel but I was excited to see where Chambers would go from there. And I actually really do think the sequel, A Closed and Common Orbit, was good! It did interesting things with AI personhood and identity.

... and then Chambers just kinda. Did not get better. She settled into a groove and has a set number of ideas that I feel like she hasn't broken out of, creatively. And they I M O kind of rest on an assumption that "human nature" = "how people act in suburban California."

As an antidote to that sensibility, I'd say... books where people have a real interrelationship with the land they inhabit, a sense of being present, and reciprocal obligations to that land; books that recognize that some things can never be taken back once done; books with well-drawn characters, where people have strong opinions deeply informed by their circumstances, that can't always be easily reconciled with others, and won't be brushed aside; books where these character choices matter, they impact each other, they cannot be easily gotten over, because people have obligations to each other and not-acting is a choice too.

And it's only fair that after all day of being a Hater I should rec some books I really did like.

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - A man lives alone in an infinite House, over an equally infinite ocean. Captures the feeling that I think Monk & Robot was aiming for. Breathtaking beauty, wonder at the world, philosophy of truth, all that good stuff, and actually sticks the landing. The main character's love, attention, and care to his fantasy environment shows through in every page. (Fantasy, short novel)

Imperial Radch by Ann Leckie - An AI, the one fragment remaining of a destroyed imperial spaceship, is on a quest for revenge. Leckie gets cultural differences and multiculturalism, and conversely, what the imposition of a homogeneous culture in the name of unity means. (Space sci-fi, novel trilogy)

Machineries of Empire by Yoon Ha Lee - An army captain's insubordination is punished by giving her a near-impossible mission: to take down a rebelling, heretical sect holing up in a space fortress and defying imperial power. She gets a long dead brain-ghost of a notorious criminal downloaded into her head to help. Very, very good at making you feel like every doomed soldier was a person with a past, with a family, with feelings, with hopes and dreams and frustrations and favorites and preferences and reasons to live, right before they brutally die in a space war. Also very much about the imposition of homogeneity of culture as a force of imperialism. (Space sci-fi, novel trilogy)

The Fortunate Fall by Cameron Reed - Maya Andreyevna is a VR journalist in high-tech dystopian future Russia, and she decides to investigate the truth that the government doesn't want her to. She might die trying. It's fine. Also has digital brain-sharing, this time in a gay way. It's bleak. It's sad. It feels real. Not making a choice is a choice. Backing out is a choice. And choices have consequences. Choices reverberate through history. About responsibility. (Cyberpunk, novel)

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez - Nia Imani is a spaceship captain, a woman out of time, a woman running from her past, and accidentally adopts a boy who has a strange power that could change the galaxy. Spaceship crew-as-found-family in the most heartbreaking of ways. Also about choices, how the choices you make and refuse to make shape you and shape the world around you. How the world is always changing around you, how the world does not stay still when you're gone, and when you come back you're the same but the world has moved on around you. About how relationships aren't always forever, and that doesn't mean they weren't important. About responsibility to others. It's a slow, sad book and does not let anyone rest on their laurels, ever. There is no end of history here. Everything is always changing, on large scales and small, and leaving you behind. (Space sci-fi, novel)

Dungeon Meshi / Delicious in Dungeon by Ryoko Kui - A D&D style fantasy dungeon crawl that stops to think deeply about why there are so many dungeons full of monsters and treasure just hanging around. Here because it's an example of an author thinking through her worldbuilding a lot, and it mattering. Also because of the characters' respect for the animals they are are killing and eating, their lives and their place in the ecosystem, and the ways that humans both fuck up ecosystems with extraction and tourism, but also the ways that you can have reciprocal relationships of responsibility and care with the ecosystem you live in, even if it's considered a dangerous one. (Fantasy, manga series)

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang and How Long 'Til Black Future Month by N. K. Jemisin and Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel by Julian K. Jarboe - Short story anthologies that were SO good and SO weird and rewired the way I think. If you want the kind of stuff that is like, the opposite of easy-to-digest feel-good pap, these short stories will get into your brain and make you consider stuff and look at the world from new angles. Most of them aren't particularly upbeat, but there's a lot of variety in the moods.

"Homecoming is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self," "Calf Cleaving in the Benthic Black," and "Termination Stories for the Cyberpunk Dystopia Protagonist" by Isabel J. Kim - Short stories, sci-fi mostly, that twist around in my head and make me think. Kim is very good at that. Also about choices and not-making-choices, about going and staying, about taking the easy route or the hard one, about controlling the narrative.

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells - Security robot with guns in its arms hacks itself free from its oppressive company, mostly wants to half-ass its job but gets sucked into drama, intrigue, and caring against its better judgement. This is on here because 1) I love it 2) I feel like it does for me what cozy sff so frequently fails to do - it makes me feel seen and comforted. It's hopeful and compassionate and about personal growth and finding community and finding one's place in the world, without brushing aside all problems or acting like "everybody effortlessly just gets along" is a meaningful proposal. also 3) because it is one of the few times I have yet seen characters from a hippie, pacifistic, eco-friendly, welcoming, utopian society actually act like people. The humans from Preservation are friendly, helpful, and motivated by truth and justice and compassion, because they come from a friendly, just, compassionate society, and they still actually act like real human beings with different personalities and conflicting opinions and poor reactions to stress and anger and frustration and fear and the whole range of human emotions rather than bland niceness. Also 4) I love it (space sci-fi, novella series mostly)

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Ecology is one of those disciplines where there is just so, so much we don't understand yet. Yes, we know that the many species within a given ecosystem have a widespread, complex network of interrelationships, but we only have the barest understanding of a fraction of them. It's like having a symphony where you've heard everyone playing, but you only have some notes from some of the musicians' sheet music, and so you can't yet put together how it all works.

In this case, we're seeing just how important northern pocket gophers (Thomomys talpoides) are to their ecosystems. After the devastating eruption of Lawetlat'la/Loowit/Mt. St. Helens in May 1980, the land was left burned and covered in tons of ash and tephra. While some zones further out from the mountain were replanted by timber companies, the area directly around the eruption site has been allowed to recover naturally because this offers North American scientists an unprecedented chance to see how an ecosystem recovers after such a large eruption, at a place that is easily accessible.

When a small number of gophers were returned to an ash-covered area of the mountain for just twenty-four hours in 1982, they kicked off what would be a forty-year study in ecological resilience. In areas with no gophers, there were only a few struggling plants born from seeds transported by birds, while in places where the little mammals were able to burrow and turn over dirt, scientists found 40,000 individual plants. This was due to the fact that the gophers were able to free soil fungi and other microbes beneath the ash and give them a chance to repopulate closer to the surface where they normally would be found. In turn, seeds of plants that had mycorrhizal relationships with the fungi, or which otherwise benefited from the increased microbial biodiversity, flourished.

And forty years later, the pattern still stands, with the gophers' work reverberating to this day. If one small mammal can have such a profound effect in a miniscule amount of time, imagine what happens when we reintroduce extirpated species to other eplaces. The volcanic area may be left to repopulate naturally as scientists continue to study it, but there are countless badly damaged ecosystems in need of restoration. The results of this experiment clearly support the importance of returning as many native species to an ecosystem as possible, because even those that may seem insignificant have invaluable contributions to make to the whole.

[witchpassing]

there's a flock of feral dolls living in the woods on the outskirts of town here. i drive out that way every morning when i go to work and i always try to go a little slower with the window down to see if i can hear any of those silly little noises they make. no luck yet though, i think they're scared of cars :(

i've been thinking about adopting one, actually! i know dolls need lots of love from their owners, but do they bond with each other too? i live in a tiny apartment so i only have space for one. i'd feel awful if i accidentally took one away from all its friends...

(collective nouns for dolls: flock, cotillion, rustle, inventory.)

thank you for your question, anon! always a pleasure to be of use.

dolls most certainly do bond with one another! in fact, many are so prone to pair-bonding that curation and pruning of their tangled interrelationships is often an important part of maintaining a harmonious domestic hierarchy. if you will permit this doll to speak freely, your consideration of this feral group's needs in this regard reassures it as to your suitability as a dollkeeper.

as to whether or not there may be a doll suitable for adoption in this flock, the wants of stray dolls are not to be generalised upon. one feral may long for the stability of redomestication, while, beside it, its sister take prides in her ability to live an independent life, despite the deprivations involved. the only thing to do is to begin to make an approach, slowly and non-threateningly, and see which of your local strays - if any - responds.

this one recommends that you travel to the aforementioned wooded area on foot - as you have observed, strays may find the loud noise of a motorcar engine rather nerve-wracking - and have a look around. you should be able to discern the areas of the woods frequented by the flock relatively easily; keep an eye out for simple sigils cut into tree bark or scratched into loam, scraps of fabric caught on low-hanging branches, witch effigies, things of that nature. don't linger too long, though - for now, you are only here to offer a gift! most feral cotillions will be very appreciative of maintenance materials such as cloth, mechanical oil, sewing implements, and uncooked meat.

repeat this process once or twice a week, varying your gifts in response to what seems more or less popular. as time goes on, you may begin to linger a little longer in the flock's territory, but do not make the first approaches yourself. strays, even those secretly longing to be caught, seldom appreciate being looked for. wait, and see what comes.

should the flock never deem you safe enough to approach and your efforts come to nothing, well... you will have offered aid to some very hard-done-by-creatures and spent several afternoons in the woods, and possibly you may have seen some deer. which is not such a terrible thing, really.

[skaldish]

...Can we talk more about how the US economy basically relies on the psychology of resource scarcity to function as an economic model?

"Resource scarcity" is a situation where we lack sufficient, reliable, and/or consistent access to one or multiple things critical for human development and livelihoods, whether it's food, housing, money, community love, sleep, comfort, bodily autonomy and freedom, the freedom of expression, the freedom to authentically engage with the world, or something else.

Chronic resource scarcity does something very fucky with our psychology. We stop operating from a place of curiosity and start operating from the desire to acquire, to pursue, and to win. Our focus narrows. We stop thinking of things in terms of interrelationships, and start thinking of things in terms of "how do I get from point A to point B?"

USAmerican culture tends to paint a "competitive nature" as a noble characteristic. But I'm starting to wonder if the kind of thrill-seeking behavior we see associated with competition is not just the behavior of a starving persistence hunter.

(Even the rich experience scarcity, in the form of the fact they constantly have to earn and maintain their worth in order to stay in their communities.)

When people have resource security, they are at ease. They are open, relaxed, inviting of silliness and playfulness, and their priorities turn to activities of personal development, innovation, and life-enrichment.

Operating from resource scarcity makes people less discerning, less considerate, more emotionally volatile, more one-track-minded, and far more spendthrifty. It's not a moral or intellectual failing on our part either. It's literally instincts kicking in because we're regularly lacking something we need to maintain our human condition.

I think the reason why many people defend keeping a competition-based society is because they want to secure their ability to gather resources, not realizing that social animals aren't interested in being competitive with members of their own species unless resource scarcity is involved.

I already figured "We can't afford to have universal basic income" didn't actually mean "Universal basic income costs too much."

But now I'm beginning to think it means "Universal basic income would change US consumer behavior patterns, which would change the mechanics we've developed around money-making, and this would render our current profit-making strategies obsolete."

And I think we should be talking about this psychological fuckery 24/7.

[tughrul]

REIGNING MONARCHS 👑 MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, and the granddaughter of MARGARET TUDOR (sister of HENRY VIII), claimed the English throne as her own, posing a threat to ELIZABETH I's reign.

The tension between the two monarchs intensified due to MARY'S close ties with Catholic France, which also influenced the strained relationship between ELIZABETH and CHARLES IX of France.

CHARLES IX's mother, CATHERINE DE' MEDICI, supported MARY'S claim to the English throne, causing further diplomatic complications and leading to the religious and political conflicts of the time.

These complex interrelationships, fuelled by power struggles and religious divisions, had profound implications for the political landscape of 16th-century Europe.

[richeeduvie]

Birds of a Feather!Hotch understands he hired you through unconventional means, it means you’re not a conventionally trained agent. That’s fine. Garcia is far from it too, Reid in the way.

But the galavanting with Reid outside his office has to stop. Immediately.

It’s giggly, you giggle like a child.

Brightly.

He wouldn’t have expected Reid to eat it up, swallow what could be consider flirtations so easily. On record, he knows you’re single. Romantic interrelationship within the BAU…it’s not ideal, but if it happens, so it does.

But you smile too much, you’re too friendly. Aaron is sure that this was what this is when it comes to you and the Doctor.

It fucking better be.

Then, Aaron wouldn’t be too sure that the conventional genius in every sense of the term would know when a young woman is just being nice. Aaron Hotchner does, which is why he takes your banter and teases, conversations on his skin, because he knows it doesn’t mean anything.

It better not, he don’t know what he’ll do to you if it is. He doesn’t like the person he’s becoming at a mere scenario.

He doesn’t like how he’s coming to get more snappy at Reid, that’s biases, that’s unprofessional. But the giggling, humming is contagious. You’re turning bits of this team upside down.

If it keeps up, he’ll have to call you into his office. It wouldn’t be fair if Reid got hurt in this.