Friday, April 16, 2021

Proposal: Take Me to Your Leader

Reaches quorum at 8-0.  - Jumble

Adminned at 17 Apr 2021 04:33:27 UTC

Add a subrule of “Understanding” to the rule “World Wide Web”, if it exists:-

Each AI has an Understanding, which is a publicly-tracked flavour text string, and which represents that AI’s understanding of the outside world and its dominant technologies and lifeforms.

As a Discreet Action known as Recognising, an AI may update their own Understanding to include the name of any object or lifeform that they believe appears in at least half of their pieces of World Data.

If the Facility Head disagrees with the validity of an AI’s Understanding, based on that AI’s World Data, then that AI is Errant.

Comments

Josh: Observer he/they

16-04-2021 10:36:22 UTC

for

Lulu: she/her

16-04-2021 11:44:12 UTC

for

Raven1207: he/they

16-04-2021 12:14:53 UTC

for

Janet: she/her

16-04-2021 13:39:50 UTC

for

Zack: he/him

16-04-2021 16:58:11 UTC

I don’t understand the second paragraph, don’t you as a player objectively know what objects/life forms appear in your world data? This makes it seems like you’re guessing something.

Kevan: he/him

16-04-2021 17:10:15 UTC

No, we don’t always objectively know what’s in photos. I can recognise a cat, but if an image was abstract or outside of my area of expertise, I may make the wrong call.

If I misidentify a Belgian street scene as “France” under the current rule, the Facility Head can decide whether I’m Errant for doing so. If the rule demanded objective truth, then misidentifying something would be a full-on illegal action and my Understanding of “Paris” would be an invalid value, with nobody realising.

Brendan: he/him

16-04-2021 19:04:31 UTC

for

Zack: he/him

16-04-2021 19:06:51 UTC

for

lemon: she/her

16-04-2021 19:56:37 UTC

for i might want to change “object or lifeform” to “noun” or similar, because in your example kevan “france” isn’t an object or a lifeform, it’s a place! and this also doesn’t include more abstract things like colours and et cetera :0