“Before you get cattle, you’ve got to have secure fencing, a reliable water source, sufficient pasture/forage, and a plan for winter hay. Managing the cows is the real job, so ensure you have infrastructure and resources in place—like a sturdy perimeter fence—before they arrive”
- AI summary of “before you get cattle, you’ve got to get ______”
… congrats on having so much of the requisite scenius in place! Exciting to be following this.
Some of the questions their article ends with seem similar to what you are trying to address: “The interesting questions involve the interaction between the ways bureaucracies abstract reality and the coarse-grainings that new AI applications will lead to. When will one system compensate for the deficiencies of the other? When will their different flavors of lossiness prove mutually reinforcing? What new problems may result from combining very different systems for managing complexity that are themselves highly complex? How will power relations change as a result? Who will benefit, and who will be hurt? These and other questions might be asked, pari passu about the relationship between AI and other social technologies such as markets and democracy too. We absolutely ought to start asking them.”
Regarding monetization, he who controls teh protocol controls (well, can) the ecosystem and money flow. My question is - if a corporation offers you money to generate an artifact which helps them "tilt" a protocol in their direction (a net benefit for all, perhaps, but a much greater benefit for them), does the protocol institute consider this ethical?
Congratulations! This is very exciting and very interesting at teh same time. i especially like the "idea processing" options, such as marinating. relating to ideas looking for their compile target, are you expecting to generate new ones or will you stay with the traditional list (not sure what is on it other than "startup"). after all you need to engage with teh real world and these targets are a kind of protocol of what is known.
Definitely an intriguing hat!
“Before you get cattle, you’ve got to have secure fencing, a reliable water source, sufficient pasture/forage, and a plan for winter hay. Managing the cows is the real job, so ensure you have infrastructure and resources in place—like a sturdy perimeter fence—before they arrive”
- AI summary of “before you get cattle, you’ve got to get ______”
… congrats on having so much of the requisite scenius in place! Exciting to be following this.
Venkat - I think you’d find Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi’s new article “AI as Social Technology” (https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-social-technology) interesting.
Some of the questions their article ends with seem similar to what you are trying to address: “The interesting questions involve the interaction between the ways bureaucracies abstract reality and the coarse-grainings that new AI applications will lead to. When will one system compensate for the deficiencies of the other? When will their different flavors of lossiness prove mutually reinforcing? What new problems may result from combining very different systems for managing complexity that are themselves highly complex? How will power relations change as a result? Who will benefit, and who will be hurt? These and other questions might be asked, pari passu about the relationship between AI and other social technologies such as markets and democracy too. We absolutely ought to start asking them.”
Regarding monetization, he who controls teh protocol controls (well, can) the ecosystem and money flow. My question is - if a corporation offers you money to generate an artifact which helps them "tilt" a protocol in their direction (a net benefit for all, perhaps, but a much greater benefit for them), does the protocol institute consider this ethical?
Congratulations! This is very exciting and very interesting at teh same time. i especially like the "idea processing" options, such as marinating. relating to ideas looking for their compile target, are you expecting to generate new ones or will you stay with the traditional list (not sure what is on it other than "startup"). after all you need to engage with teh real world and these targets are a kind of protocol of what is known.
Congrats on the launch! Excited to see what emerges.