Tag: wireheading

• Language Games: Work, Play, Simulacra

  Our speech may not be rational, but it is motivated. When we choose to speak, we speak for reasons. Our perceptions alter our models, alter our decisions, alter our actions. Our actions alter others’ perceptions alter models alter decisions (ad infinitum). Advertising is communication with specific, narrow motivations: envisioned ends which, in conjunction with player…

  suspendedreason

  March 17, 2022

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  advertising, all communication is manipulation, games, good regulator theorem, language games, strategic interaction, wireheading

• Surrogation, or why we can’t have nice things

  X: Representation and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. Y: True, but but anything before that probably couldn’t be called the human race.

  suspendedreason

  July 22, 2021

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  artificial intelligence, Campbell's Law, degenerate play, games, generalized reading, Goodhart's Law, institutional theory, Karl Friston, Markov blankets, mesa-optimization, microsociology, representation, selection games, signaling theory, strategic interaction, surrogation, wireheading

• The surrogation matrix

  The “thing in itself” (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for. This creator only designates the relations of things to men, and for expressing these relations he lays…

  suspendedreason

  February 2, 2021

  Essays

  alignment, deception, Friedrich Nietzsche, games, institutional theory, Karl Friston, Markov blankets, opticratics, proxies, spirit vs. letter, strategic interaction, surrogation, wireheading