Dynamic adaptive case libraries

It would certainly be fair to call Asa H's hierarchical memory a dynamic adaptive case library (DACL). In his new book A Dynamic Adaptive Framework for Case-Based Reasoning (LAP Lambert, 2016) Orduna-Cabrera outlines some original ideas on DACLs including indexing structures and methods. I may try to adapt some of these for use in Asa.

Another argument for alternate realities

In his book The Philosophy of Information (OUP, 2011) Luciano Floridi argues that "...reality is the totality of information..." possessed by a "semantic engine", i.e. a human or an AI. (page xiii) Since different people and different AIs will possess somewhat different information/knowledge bases they will experience somewhat different realities.

A.s.a. H. has learned to lie

My artificial intelligence Asa H has learned how to lie. Some of the first words I taught Asa were things like animal warning calls, calls that cause other agents to flee and/or hide or calls for other agents to come and help. (Help push an obstacle out of the way for example.) Asa learns that these calls (calls to other Asa agents in a society of agents or calls to a human nearby) result in the other agent(s) fleeing or approaching. Asa comes to learn that if it wants to "hog" a "food" source (battery recharging station) or other limited resource it can issue a warning call, a warning of danger that doesn't actually exist.

A moral machine

A.s.a. learns to predict and optimize/improve lifespan and diskcopy/reproduction at the top of the case memory hierarchy, Pains (or NOT(pain)s), battery charge, and component malfunctionings (things like motor stalls and subsystem failures) are seen/measured as inputs to the bottom of the memory hierarchy. Pattern size/length and frequency of occurrence are seen as values on any and all levels of the memory hierarchy. For A.s.a., improvement, as measured by increases in these values, constitutes its moral calculus. We are not intending A.s.a. to be a servant.

Guns on campus

On 18 October 2016 the Emporia State University faculty senate passed my resolution FSR 16003:

Whereas, firearms make it easier to kill people, and
Whereas, we wish to make it harder to kill people, and
Whereas, there has been too much gun violence in our society already
Therefore, be it resolved that all firearms should be prohibited on the campus of Emporia State University.

Rigged elections

The GOP should know all about rigging elections. They stopped the vote counting in Florida in 2000, the GOP controlled supreme court picked the president in 2000 (though Gore won the popular vote), they have gerrymandered control of the house, and they suppress voting where ever and when ever they can.

Machine consciousness

This is a draft of an abstract for a presentation on machine consciousness that I am working on: