benjamin on agent/1st-pinciple ness
benjamin bratton on agent/1st-principle ness
via tweet [https://x.com/bratton/status/2070512775764558295?s=20]:
At Antikythera we are launching a new research unit, Agentworld, that will explore agentic AI and hybrid agency from first principles:
–The Demographic Crossover Point within Centaur Societies
–Paradigms of Agency: Individuation and Decomposition
–The Mirror Talks Back: Parasocial Shadows
— Open World Ecologies: Agent Lifeworlds
–Real-to-Sim-to-Real Relays
–Human-Agent Interaction Design
–Agent Institutions
–Agent Phenomenology and Theory of Minds
–Xenosociality: Beyond Humanity-of-the-Gaps
— AHI (Artificial Hybrid Intelligence)
the design we need for ‘agents’ to get at ‘1st principles’: tech as it could be (the thing we can’t seem to be/do) – nonjudgmental expo labeling.. to see/hear what we can’t seem to
We are accepting submissions for new research to be published in a special issue of the peer-reviewed Antikythera Journal (MIT Press)
The Call for Papers/ Whitepaper may be downloaded at [https://agentworld.antikythera.org/]
from link:
What is Agentworld?
With recognition that to speak of the future is often a way of describing the present in new terms…
Agentworld is characterized by densely reticulated social graphs emerging from the *hyperscaled webs of interactions between diverse combinations of minds, some more human than others, but all **capable of significant communication.
*imagine if we ness
**significant ness only matters if it’s legit communication (ie: brown belonging law; maté trump law; wilde not-us law; et al)..
for that need 1st/most: means (nonjudgmental expo labeling) to undo hierarchical listening – so we can hear what’s already on each heart as global detox in order to org around legit needs
ie: self-talk as data via idiosyncratic jargon as ‘language’ facil’d by tech as nonjudgmental expo labeling
The most psychologically textured interactions likely remain between humans, but humans and agents also develop anthropologically rich patterns, ones that alter the evolution of language, mind, and population.
again.. need 1st/most: means to undo our hierarchical listening to self/others/nature as global detox/re\set.. so we can org around legit needs
Agent-to-agent communication will constitute the vast majority of socially significant interactions. As a society within a society, agent divisions, hierarchies, and parallel systems intersect with those built from the templates of human society. Both evolve at an accelerated rate, in turn feeding back onto the organic forms from which they emerge and from which they depart. First, agents model humans, and then become the model against which humans model themselves
to me.. to get to legit 1st principles/agents.. (aka: the root of problem)
ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of that global detox leap/dance..
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
otherwise we’ll keep perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. perpetuating survival triage.. for (blank)’s sake..
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my submission:
nothing to date has gotten to the root of problem (1st principle)
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
there’s a legit use of tech (agent ness we need most) (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. for (blank)’s sake..
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
otherwise we’ll keep perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. perpetuating survival triage.. for (blank)’s sake..
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revenge of the real.. model is the message.. benjamin on antikythera.. benjamin on ai.. de sign o.. benjamin on expo ness.. benjamin on planetary computation.. benjamin on ai and intelligence.. benjamin on terraforming ness.. benjamin on agent/1st-pinciple ness..
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be you. 