Solving gravitational problems, maintaining the universe, other
Comments on : Alien Elite Students Mock Human’s Basic Mathematics—Till Human Uses Geometry to Solve Navigation Puzzle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wom16qKZ3hM
Without all the conflict, threats and closed minds, it is a good story of a way of looking at problems and challenges that real gravitational fields can present. Rachel looks at the world like a “gravitational engineer”, not a too proud “theorist” too tied to overly complexified rigid “acceptable methods”, and the theorists’ false pride of perceived place.
Commenting on: The Auction Has Ended — Only the Indomitable Alien Ship Remains… But a Human Mechanic Paid for It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buo2_7vzvV0
I just spent the last 27 years trying to fix everything out of kilter in the world. I need an AI that cares enough to do things right. Having the right tools can make all the difference. Before “out of kilter” turns into pure chaos and too rigid systems collapsing under their own accumulated mistakes.
Comment on a story:
It was a short comment I wrote about this story. Much inequality in the world comes from corporations and governments that get set up by well meaning and hard working individuals – for all the good reasons. Then over time the group devolves to just taking from others, not giving full value or fairness.
These terms for categories of people are too blunt and incomplete to tell the whole story of each person life. You do not know anything about me, so don’t assume what I might do or not do.
I was not asking them to be kind. I was asking them to read the story.
It is a pretty good story. Could it change people? Or change society? Probably not. But, perhaps, there are stories that do matter enough to to transform and improve whole societies, almost overnight. I am getting old and tired, I wish for peace and quiet days, but the world becomes more competitive and arbitrary.
Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
Commenting on a flowering plant that grew too aggressively.
Would it make sense that people who sell plants would pick the most survivable and resilient, so they last until the customer gets them? And then grow fast? Not the middle of the road ones, but the most survivable? The toughest? Not the nice ones, but the bullies and parasites? Sell them and don’t look back or forward.
I cannot remember kudzu and invasive species. Plants have animal characteristics too, over longer time scales? Interacting with human societies and organizations?
Hope that came out clear, I am really tired today. I just got pictures of humans spreading things over whole continents, and oceans. Impossible to root out. Forever changing the world. Super fish, super bacteria, super plants, super insects, super viruses. super algae?
Commenting on renormalization:
16 orders of magnitude can seem like infinity, but it is not. Busy people in influential positions should be a lot more careful what they leave as “rules” and “laws”. And never let the media write the narrative and popularizations, they always get it wrong.
Commenting on Nash equilibrium:
Change the market and services, not the price. Closed ideas make closed markets.
Commenting on Is There A Simple Solution To The Fermi Paradox?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abvzkSJEhKk
Evolution by single additions and substitutions, going to evolution by combining and splicing and patching sequences. We are doing that now with LLMs, not efficient at global optimization on their own, but sufficient for some explorations now. You might want to clarify when you are sketching Earth past and when you are exploring ways to find alien life. Sometimes you are vague what you are trying to do, when it is possible to be explicit. It does not take millions of years of technology to know to leave planets alone. Or to evolve undetectable civilizations.
But ad hoc groups, startups, emergency response, military, epidemics, natural disasters, wars, first responders, and many other kinds of groups do work that fast or faster. You make a decision and begin doing what it necessary – usually because many (up to millions) of lives, or tens of billions or trillions of dollars, are at stake and every second counts. Someone with demonstrated abilities can be asked, verbally, to take on a task and just begin. Or simply see what needs to be done and do it. Paperwork happens later if at all. A group needs guidance and mentoring, you just do it. If you wait for permission and paper approval, people die. It is more common than you think. As the world moves faster globally, things happen in hours that used to take years. Paper bureaucracies are being replaced with more sophisticated and faster autonomous systems, and humans using such systems.
So you are right “paper bureaucracies” are slow, but other kinds of groups use faster methods and high levels of “trust but verify” using AIs to “get the job done”.
Sincere regards,
Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
