AI personhood would be nice, but is a sideshow. What we need is data model personhood. Which is kinda the same as instrumentation personhood, since data doesn’t exist until it is measured, and measurements don’t exist without data models derived from instrument models
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I think the only solution is: the data owns itself. Just like biological offspring do. Anything else leads to an unholy mess of conflicts of interest, bad faith, etc.
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Like children, data persons need parenting until they get “grow up.” But the principle of fostering ontogenic development into full personhood should be the true north. Ideas like “researchers should open-source data and code used to write peer-reviewed papers” are soft versions.
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This builds on my idea of boundary intelligence from a while back.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/915302752720322560 …
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See also B. F. Skinner’s famous “On having a poem” lecture where he makes a close analogy between birthing a human and a poem.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PauL2KXagrg …
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I’m not a data-rights absolutist, and am willing to trade “my” data for services, but the farther data is along ontogenic path to personhood, the more wary I am of it being locked up. Not “information wants to be free” but “data shouldn’t be in school/jail without good reason”https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1338186168706367488 …
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Galaxy brain version: you’re *already* a data-person yourself. A particular idiosyncratic theory of personhood populated by data streams from about 100-250 lbs of biomass. That you are you is just one opinion about the nature of that mass.https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-an-individual-biology-seeks-clues-in-information-theory-20200716/ …
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Thomas Nagle, 1974: What is it like to be a bat? Me, 2020: How fo you know you’re not a lichen? A data-ghost of 3 or more beings that just thinks it’s one person
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See also... this idea is becoming more popular by the decade.https://aeon.co/essays/how-to-understand-cells-tissues-and-organisms-as-agents-with-agendas …
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I am not sure I follow all the way here, but interesting. The data reflection of you is not quite fish not quite meat... as the Italians would say :D
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