I am a highly empathic autistic person. As such, I always felt that lack of empathy is the most dangerous and spiteful quality (or lack thereof) in a human being.
There should be more awareness of the presence of sociopaths, psychopaths and narcissists - disguided as humans - ...
... amidst normal people who try to live a normal life. Their lust for power is unsullied by moral obstacles: they only respect rules and laws to dodge consequences, but will hurt others in order to further their agenda if they don't expect a payback. When we look at...
... the senseless situation of mankind, we often embrace models close to Marxian thought, without realizing that such models are descriptive: they can explain fairly well the mechanics of injustice, but they don't really care about the causes. …
... We should really open a public discussion on the presence of predators among us, the dangers they pose, and how to compassionately take care of them while defusing their negative potential, preventing them from accessing unsupervised power roles. …
... My experience with those of the Dark Triad is that normal human beings fall prey to an instinct to submit, to the point of actiively helping them to destroy those who oppose. Why don't we start from this?...
... We can't change their condition, but we can change ours by stopping to surrender power to human predators.
So now we are (hopefully) stopping Trump. ...
...Why not take a further step by openly discussing the role of predators in our society as a medical problem that needs a social solution, like pandemics need vaccines?
(Sorry if my English is funny or awkward, not my mother tongue).
@svetlyak40wt@spacebat Sorry for the late answer - my private life is absorbing most of my bandwidth in this period (divorce):
as far as I can see, my concept shares something with the regulatory feedback ANN model, but the layout of the network itself is modified by the feedback.
@svetlyak40wt@spacebat Think of it as a directed cyclic graph, with an input layer, an output layer and an arbitrary number of intermediate nodes; plus, it can transmit information and modify its layout (the connections, not the nodes) according to a feedback mechanism, ...
@svetlyak40wt@spacebat ... working its way unsupervised to a stable configuration that produces an optimal feedback.
@svetlyak40wt Ok, I sent you an invitation on github on the backend project, that contains under neuron/ what little I have implemented. @spacebat: could do the same if you let me know a github id.
Following: a short, yet long, discussion of the concept.
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The concept: living beings have a nervous system, and "real" intelligence. I think nature is complex, of a chaotic, fractal kind of complexity; still I think it's, well, natural: by this I mean that no natural phenomenon, including intelligence, ...
@svetlyak40wt@spacebat ...needs to be explained by sovrannatural causes. Of some phenomena we have a complete mathematical understanding (or so we think: eg the laws of motion); some other we can't "integrate", but we can approximate them to an extent with numerical models (think of weather forecasts).