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diff --git a/starts/bagel/notes.txt b/starts/bagel/notes.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..18a8f21 --- /dev/null +++ b/starts/bagel/notes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +The habits should be used to discern what is relevent; to form relevence. +The goal should be to choose a relevent habit and do that habit. + +These are the basic habits I thought up that a computer program has: + variables: + - create a place to store a value + - place a value in such a place + - retrieve a value from such a place + data-structures: + - make a class definition (collection of variables) + - initialize an object + - set/retrieve properties (variables) + flow: + - trigger a different step than the next, conditionally + procedures: + - collect a set of behaviors together + - trigger a collected set of behaviors and continue + expressions: + - evaluate arithmetic on variables and constants + + +That is: +======================================================================================================== + - the active goal is to choose what to do and to what, and do it + - the way to do this is the same as it: + by picking habits that are relevent in the moment [choose what to do], + and running them on relevent data [choose to what, and do it] +======================================================================================================== + - the habits should be to identify what is relevent + + - we have a request for the initial goal of the process to be to write a chunk of code out in its own language + tighter self-reference is made without the extra sourcecode-file step, but it may be slower to code due to not getting as much help from it + +The hope is the process becomes good at active choice. + + + +Ideas for Tenets for a Need-Based Artificial Life <need ordering + addition + code> +Behavior is Life <maybe Life is Behavior That Adapts> +All life has the same core needs. Needs are the reasons to do anything at all. +We need to know what we want when we act. (all behavior has a reason) +We need to be able to learn new things. +We need to be able to make promises on how to behave. (provides for cooperation) +We need to be able to keep our promises. +We need to know how to communicate with others what each of us knows. +We need to freely interact with our friends, our parts, and our community, in ways that we know well. (community is our body) +Information lives with a reason, a purpose. +We need to retain the information we choose to retain. +We need to act to meet our needs. +We need to identify relevent important needs that support our needs. + +We need to be able to try new ways of doing things. +We need to be able to judge what works. + +Proposed Definitions: +What is an intellect? + Propose an intellect is something that can adapt to keep something constant in a diverse, changing environment, + so long as the environment changes slowly enough and with enough familiarity for them to learn or prepare effectively. +What is a full intellect? + Propose that a full intellect is an intellect that can design and build something that functions as well as they do, + without access to their own workings, and is able to learn to handle arbitrarily fast or new diverse environmental change. + +What basic parts do we expect a full intellect to have? +- Trial Exploration +- Relevence +- Self Coding +- Pattern Generality +- Meaning Representation +- Promise Meeting + +What other parts do we find we need? +- Usage Simplification + +Trial Exploration + Brainstorming, trial-and-error. The ability to try or consider different things and find ones that work well. + simple approaches: exhaustive search, and random trial + +Relevence + The ability to apply concepts and actions moreso in contexts they are likely to be useful than those they aren't. + 1. responsiveness for behavior: a habit acts when conditions arise, not when it is 'next' + 2. possibly a promise for decision-making, for proposals to have reasons with associated strengths + (note: strength appears developed from source reasons and can be missing data that can be filled in by habits when needed) + TODO: make relevent decision-making honor convergent needs. maybe strength represents information exchange. + +Self-Coding + At least part of the system must be fully alterable by the system and generic enough to replace it. + Due to the danger involved in this, controversial concerns must be fully included in decisions around it. + Karl references Convergent Facilitation as proof that a decision can be found to satisfy any set of controversial concerns. + <it very roughly involves rapidly moving towards the reasons of the concerns until they don't conflict; there is a lot of caring dialogue> + +Pattern Generality + The ability to brainstorm on enough relationships, possibly mathematical, to discover pattern-summaries that are diversely effective in the real world. + +Meaning Representation + The ability to store and work with conceptual information. + +Promise Meeting + The ability to make agreements on behavior and structure, adhere to them, and change them when needed. + |