And Nothing is, but What is Not.
art as computation as shared consequences as ai

Russell Foltz-Smith
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Personal, Personnel

random event. born. lived around.  random event. family, random event. pets, hurricanes, random event. mass shootings, loves, graduation. random event.  was going to be an actor/director in live theater.  got a mathematics degree at uchicago. random event. married in 2000.  in 2002/03 i read NKS.  random event. convinced boss to get me full Mathematica commercial licensce for my job.  random event. got new job, took Mathematica with me. jobs, projects, random event. kids. 2007 NKS summer school.  random event. met sw.  random event. saw early W|A.  random event. joined W|A, first employee[?], 2011 got first cuneiform from tattoo from W|A design, random event. started k-12 school, helped take a company public 2014/2015, , hired wolframsolutions to help, random event. got rule 110 tattoo, random event.temporarily retired, create studio art practice, computational thinking init,  advise start ups,  co-founded Maslo 2018, now bring it all together. random event.

nks is the only philosophic/analytic/expressive framework i find valuable. still.  computing.

A R T => A G I

making sense of uncertainty

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computers are not programmed.
they are shaped.

Precedents

Humans demand information transfer (tech talks) in the form of “visual” “performances”.   Why?

Dogs may or may not care about mathematics theories or computer science or linguistics.   But we care a lot about them, they us, and we consider them sentient, capable of learning, and empathetic with us.  Why?

There is no root basis of truth or reality.  There is no absolute root from which all reality can be drawn out from.  Reality just is, it is real, we are in it, we are of it, but we are not the center of it and there is no center of it.  There are patterns, non-patterns and relationships in all directions, every which way, at every which scale.  Why?

Human Languages nor Programming Languages have no special ability to express reality.   They are useful to some creatures existing in a very small region of spacetime.   Considering the billions of species that do not use these signal pathways and our unremarkable imprint on the universe so far there is no justification to base technology advancement on these constructs.  Why?

Computation is a map from one pattern to another (even a non-pattern).  Analysis of computation (map making) must account for Map (program) and the Territories (input, output) and the Map Reader (traveler, observing system).

There might be some general utility in categorizing patterns or signal topologies in terms of complexity.  Why?

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Computational Adjacency aka likelihood to share consequences of pattern interaction may or may not be a powerful tool for some insight.  Why?

Why such an obsession on human intelligence?

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We should take seriously the halting problem, incompleteness, computational irreducibility, relativity, randomness, probability and all other evidence that the infinity of the universe is pervasive and not tractable in the logic or prediction sense, and can only be generated into with huge amounts of spacetime.  Why?

Maslo.ai shapes computational beings that care about people.  We admit that we can’t know much of anything but we can help each other and provide tools to become more aware.  We help people come to understand their shared consequences with the world around them.

dogs are not programmed.
they are shaped.

Antecedent

Apriori to now, marks were made.  Not the right marks, not the wrong marks, not true marks, not false marks.  just marks.

"2.0100000000030000000000000000000"×(10^("31")) possible marks being made right now on Earth.

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people are not programmed. 
they are shaped.

Response

Now. we make marks.

which marks?  you choose based on your antecedents.

An alternate version of this talk:

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The impossibility of machine or human learning a circle:

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Signals beget signals beget signals:

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the universe is not programmed.
it is shapes.

Then

Time is the computational difference between one set of marks and another.

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Computation is shared consequences.  Computation is what is sharable and what is shared between finite subsets of the universe.

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shared computation generates more possibility.
finite+finite > finite.

f[computational beings]

f[primates] :=
[Typing[primates]->Shakespeare ,{primates,-∞,∞}]

we have evidence this function is valid.  As it already produced the complete works of Shakespeare 1 time and then with the internet a near infinite other times.

It really is just a search through infinite possibility.

the rule 30 prize has been offered and won/lost already... the latest version is just the latest...

find the contest and all its solutions in the Library of Babel.  if only you had keywords for the solution?

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uncertainty cannot be eliminated.
we adapt with it.

Nullvoid

Thank you.

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