Ada Lovelace devised the first program. Grace Hopper wrote the first complier. Margaret Hamilton started the field of software engineering. Women have always been and will always be essential to the advance of computing.https://twitter.com/louisemensch/status/1015775582263627776 …
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Replying to @Grady_Booch @vrandezo
@Plinz Would M in IT like to listen to W in IT now? We have something to say! There is something VERY important that requires input and work from everyone. It brings values into computation, and computation into values. Can we all work together please?https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-need-computational-pragmatics-now-anne-cregan/ …1 reply 3 retweets 6 likes -
I am willing to listen to you as a human being with a mind and integrity and intellectual agency, not as a member of a group defined by sexual organs. Group minds limit the rational autonomy of their members and thus arguments tend to lead nowhere useful.
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Thankyou, that was exactly what I wanted. I leveraged the debate to gain attention but the point is that the "female" principle of empathy/love & "male" principle of rationality must be integrated effectively if AI is to serve us well. Don't leave human values out of computation
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I think that human values are insufficient to run a modern society at scale, i.e. beyond the communal mode.
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Then we have no choice but to improve them. What other choice is there? We have the technology to execute globally now so new possibilities abound. We must at least try to do the best we can, even if it is not enough. Why do you think they are insufficient? What could we do?
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A first step might be the creation of a global brain: a family of completely comprehensive and transparent model of climate, ecology, economy and politics on earth. I expect that it will meet much resistance but we cannot lie to ourselves any more.
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One would hope better visibility would help matters, but good dashboards are already here and not getting the attention they deserve eg vital signs of the planet: https://climate.nasa.gov/ A global brain needs a global conscience: where will/should its moral compass(es) come from?
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Replying to @AnneCregan @vrandezo
I don't think that moral values can be universal, they have to be negotiated. Factual models need to be the basis of that negotiation. It cannot work the other way around. At the moment, our preferences often lead to a severe publication bias that lets us to underestimate risks.
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Moral values are entirely subjective, but utility functions over them need to be defined & aggregated. Personally I have 4 moral compasses: Love, Understanding, Joy and Beauty. I use them to feel which is the best way forward. Unsure what you mean by "factual" models or bias?
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The world is in a particular way, regardless of our preferences. That is what I mean by factual. Our (and especially other’s) preferences introduce incentives that bias what we claim to be factual.
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Love is shared purpose above the personal level, understanding is the mapping of a new domain on something I already know how to compute, joy is positive hedonic valence, beauty is aesthetic response?
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