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So, as you know, back in the summer of 2017 I participated in SRI International’s Technology and Consciousness Workshop Series. This series was an eight week program of workshops the current state of the field around, the potential future paths toward, and the moral and social implications of the notion of conscious machines. To do this, we brought together a rotating cast of dozens of researchers in AI, machine learning, psychedelics research, ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, cognitive computing, neuroscience, comparative religious studies, robotics, psychology, and much more.
[Image of my name card from the Technology & Consciousness workshop series.]
We traveled from Arlington, VA, to Menlo Park, CA, to Cambridge, UK, and back, and while my primary role was that of conference co-ordinator and note-taker (that place in the intro where it says I “maintained scrupulous notes?” Think 405 pages/160,656 words of notes, taken over eight 5-day weeks of meetings), I also had three separate opportunities to present: Once on interdisciplinary perspectives on minds and mindedness; then on Daoism and Machine Consciousness; and finally on a unifying view of my thoughts across all of the sessions. In relation to this report, I would draw your attention to the following passage:
All of these meetings were held under the auspices of the Chatham House Rule, which meant that there were many things I couldn’t tell you about them, such as the names of the other attendees, or what exactly they said in the context of the meetings. What I was able tell you, however, was what I talked about, and I did, several times. But as of this week, I can give you even more than that.An objection to this privileging of sentience is that it is anthropomorphic “meat chauvinism”: we are projecting considerations onto technology that derive from our biology. Perhaps conscious technology could have morally salient aspects distinct from sentience: the basic elements of its consciousness could be different than ours.This past Thursday, SRI released an official public report on all of the proceedings and findings from the 2017 SRI Technology and Consciousness Workshop Series, and they have told all of the participants that they can share said report as widely as they wish. Crucially, that means that I can share it with you. You can either click this link, here, or read it directly, after the cut.
Read the rest of 2017 SRI Technology and Consciousness Workshop Series Final Report at A Future Worth Thinking About
39/365- From @normal-horoscopes‘ post here, it ended up on a prompt list I’ve pinned up at my desk of things I wanted to turn into short comics so I can suck less at comics.
growth hacking is the big word in the marketing industry, do you know what it means?
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21/365- I did a pair of large-scale ballpoint pieces the summer before last, when I was still in Georgia, to try out the grid transfer-and-scale technique I had somehow forgotten that i knew, then forgot about the pieces over moving, before i got around to scanning them.
I should probably mat and frame them at some point instead of stuffing them back in the huge bristol pad they’ve been living in, but I feel weird about them because they’re both really on-brand for me and a wild departure in a way I can’t quite quantify.
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I finally finished this, then put off scanning it for another while because it had to be pieced together from four scans, which is never fun.
I adored Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, but the movie, Annihilation, hit me directly in the id with its overlapping of delicate natural beauty, body horror, and exploration of transformation and otherness. I referenced the Florida park the setting was based on, and wove the pokeberries throughout because they’re a natural mutagen and teratogen, as well as being tenacious plants of waste spaces, and a bright element i could use to tie the whole thing together.
Look at this, right now.
