The Task Is Not Impossible

In 2017, consistent with some traditions of preserving Tibetan lamas after their deaths, I had written of an advanced digital replica as a means to preserve the persona of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

I want to draw parallels between two species-wide disturbances which really shook faith in existing systems.

The contemporary discourse on data governance has been compromised by Data Idealism which approaches data as primarily a social and techno-legal artifact.

Recently, for an academic workshop I had to submit a brief on China as a latecomer in global technology standardisation.

The root of all evil is a premature policy optimization.

There circulate these days a variety of rumors of technological destruction - from an impending AI doom to a US-China technological decoupling and subsequent showdowns, or even an escalation of "small wars" into a litany of CBRN scenarios - for all we know

Recently, Sam Altman had been touring the world attempting (perhaps) a regulatory capture of global AI developments.

Tigress & Serpent, Thomas Landseer When ChatGPT was released, soon arose several continuing Chinese whispers of the online variety that expressed discontent over the AI being too "lobotomised".

"To live effectively is to live with adequate information."

Does your program have too many dependencies/relations with the outside environment?

Sambo sivam, jagame thandiram.

Systems fail because engineers protect the wrong things, or protect the right things in wrong ways. - Ross Anderson, Security Engineering [Art by Shibara] Recently, yours truly ran into the use of analytical wargaming as a methodology to address policy pr…

A couple of years ago, the US quietly put a worldwide export control on convolutional neural network based geospatial imagery software, the reason being its potential use by foreign militaries.

There was the sound like a rumor without any echo of history, really beginning.

As systems become more complex, they are also likely to fail in ways of which the exact mechanism might be harder to predict and understand beforehand.

Following a previous article on multinational interoperability, some elementary inspection of complications was needed since the use of AI in the context of modern strategic systems exacerbates the pre-existing modalities governing the formation and funct…

"We tend to forget that throughout history many decision-makers were delighted to accept “double or nothing” tactics if the odds looked sufficiently favorable."

"My sculptures are like no other known geometrical solid, but they look just like a cube, a pyramid or another known or absurd solid.

"Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books."

“We reject kings, presidents, and voting.

Mathematicians argue that it is a mathematical fact, that often the most rational way of making a decision is to simply flip a coin.

There is circulating an article on AI, based on the idea that intelligence explosion is impossible and that there is no such thing as general intelligence.

Electric-Ray fish is a soft smooth-skinned animal which has evolved to grow modified muscle tissues that generate up to 30 amperes of current, the fish needs this power to defend itself in the ocean and successfully capture its prey.

Alice and Bob are selfish people who should never trust each other, maybe I do not really know, but they certainly use all kinds of cryptography and masks and games to bolster their stealth and pursue their interests, so I’ll say that these two actors nev…

“Life is warfare and a journey far from home.” - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations It is assumed that man, by his very nature, attempts to impose his will upon his environment and meets a resistance at some point leading to a conflict of interests.