Still under the weather but regardless, I must solider on for the festival of joy and light - the Eurovision - will soon begin. Oh, I shouldn't drink, I'm in no state to do so but ... well ... what choice is there? How else do you commune with gods of eurovision otherwise?
Eurovision is a religious experience that can only be obtained in an intoxicated state when blurting out half garbled words to songs you don't understand whilst watching images of scantily clad elves with beards catapulted across the screen and squashed between huge LED screens.
Whilst I'm waiting, I may as well get GPT4 to create a new Eurovision language for me and start translating my tweets ... just to get into that Eurovision vibe ... hold my beer, no wait ... I need that beer ...
Storm in a Teacup, but Rise Like a Phoenix, I must Fairytale for the Euphoria - the Eurovision - will soon begin. Oh, Alcohol Is Free, I'm in No Dream Impossible to do so but ... well ... What's Another Year? How else do you Love Shine a Light with gods of Eurovision otherwise?
I'm sure it will all start to make sense later ... after several more beers. The countdown begins. The event horizon that is the Eurovision Song Contest approaches. There is no escape.
Resistance is futile ... or in Eurovision-ese "Hard Rock Hallelujah, You Are The Only One" ... it will make sense later, keep drinking those beers.
And so it begins and it's awesome. UK very proud to host for Ukraine. United by music, all are welcome ... except Russia.
Beautiful voices, dire songs, hilarious sets and oddball gimmicks ... that's #Eurovision at its finest.
However ... cha cha cha ... has to become the anthem for the world. If Finland and his dad bod don't win ... well ... it'll be a crime #Eurovision
X : What did you think?
Me : I listened to the songs whilst managing half a beer and then fell asleep on my favourite settee, all wrapped up in woolen blankets. I woke up fourteen hours later to discover that Finland had won ... well ... they won the only vote that matters.
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I first thought this was a social media ad for a "V for Vendetta" remake, a Norsefire party ... but alas, it turns out to be something real and very chilling indeed ->
@joa_pen X : Have you read Patterns of Strategy?
Me : As I noted some 18 years ago and have explained many time since, there are different forms of gameplay which can be used in conjuction with each other depending upon the context (i.e. your landscape, your map). Hence I like the post.
X : What does that mean?
Me : Well, if you took a strategy as a combination of gameplay (assuming doctrine was all fine and you had the capabilities plus the culture that enabled them) then even a basic play with three parts would imply 249.984 different patterns of strategy.
Put this into a game - arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03442…… - with hundreds of thousands or millions or billions of generative agents with memory competing in "tribal" groups and I suspect you will eventually create strong AGI at the group level.
Question is ... how we will notice?
This is exactly the sort of environment I've been waiting for since - blog.gardeviance.org/2015/01/the-ac… - the accidental connection of vast numbers of relatively dumb agents in groups within a competitive system ...
... it's bound to happen, we will create strong AGI without realising it, it'll almost certainly be in the gaming world and if I was a betting person then I'd reckon it'll either be EA Sports or Bethesda that will accidentally create the ideal environment for skynet to emerge.
Recently I ran sessions on mapping AI. We're going to do the same for Cybersecurity. Sessions will be 2 hours per day, for 6 days - 8th to 10th May and 15th to 17th. 1300 to 1500 UK time. All maps cc by sa. Message me or respond to this tweet if you want to be included.
X : Is your AI group still running?
Me : Nope. It was a quick exercise with a end time. The maps produced are at ... github.com/swardley/Resea…
The conclusion the group came to on where industry needs to focus is :-
The intention is to do the same with the cybersecurity group and create three maps (i.e. perspectives) of cybersecurity, use this to find investment areas and work out what the focus of the industry should be ... in a total of 12 hours (6 days, 2 hours per day).
X : What institutes or societies are you a member of?
Me : None.
X : What academic organisations do you work for?
Me : None.
X : What makes you qualified to speak about mapping?
Me : The community of people finding my work useful. It's the only recognition I care about.
X : Have you thought about putting mapping on a more formal academic footing?
Me : Others have. They are welcome to do so. Academia is not my cup of tea. Bad past experiences.
X : ?
Me : Academia is a cut-throat industry that makes most business look like peace loving hippies.
X : More?
Me : Past is past. I tend to steer clear of academia, societies and institutions. They have their role, it's just not a space that I'm particularly interested in. Others in the mapping community are, which is good for them and for mapping overall. It's just not me.