Gotta be honest with you. I was kinda hoping for a big blank page with 2 letters spelling NO.
But interesting topic - and at least you got a couple of comments. :D
Excogni does its best to measure and train cognition while staying honest.
It is made in a way where it shows and points to any uncertainty. It is a long way from done, but it is open - open code, open data - to the extent where it can keep users from being singled out. I Hope some of you enjoy it as much as I do. And honestly the app without data is a shell, I hope you will try it out.
I am open to all suggestions and will consider them. I'll also make sure to check and respond to any feedback, maybe not at the same moment but I'll do my best to do it today.
Respect for the thoughts.
Now that you got me thinking about Tolstoyan Art it sounds like zero pre-shared knowledge emotional information transfer attempt to me - Which would be cool. It sounds a bit more like discovering an universal graphical language for emotion transfer then inventing one - where inventing would require the observer to go trough schools to learn and understand, while discovering universal communication graphical tools the information(feeling) would be mostly understood instantly. Really cool topic to think deeper about.
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When you stop to think of it, historically people have told their secrets to the church, now they also tell them to AI. There is some kind of relation there, the power that people willingly give to an organization. The Ads are coming so I guess people will start to think about it a bit more.
To the best of my knowledge, traditional confessions have always been processed locally, not sent upstream¹.
AFAICT, it is much harder to get a priest to reveal your confession than it is to get a log of your ChatGPT sessions.
¹) I first wrote "not sent to the cloud", but if God is all-knowing, records of all sins are already in the cloud, just not accessible by support staff.
The system in question is a distributed system, an interaction within that system such as "confession" involves ridiculous amounts of distributed processing, far beyond two nodes that were participating in that original exchange.
"The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms."
"God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment and punishment. Other sentiments towards them were secondary."
"The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment."
"The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization."
Contrary to prevailing fetish, not everything is about “power”. Framing everything in terms of it is not only self-refuting, but it impoverishes the range of human relations and warps understanding.
Confession is not about some kind of organizational power. The whole point is that it liberates the penitent. It is protected by absolute secrecy in order to, among other reasons, remove the element of power. A priest who breaks the seal of confession incurs automatic excommunication and faces further penalties, like removal from public ministery and from the clerical state. In short, a priest is expected to endure torture and even death to preserve the seal. There is no admissible exception. Not much of a “power move”.
In the case of big tech and AI, profit and power do enter the picture. Secrecy is the last thing big tech wants.
for whatever merit it may achieve, concentrated attack upon religion fails to account for resultantly deprecated cultural aspects that are vital to continued functioning society, and this blind spot is not discussed often enough - in this case ,confession to a priest is significantly less evil than confession to sam altmans torture machine in the making
I am sorry if you read it as an attack on religion, it was an attack on big AI.
If religion sends or even needs to send data upstream is not part of my knowledge, but AI does. But church did have the best understanding of who is who in a local society and AI companies will use this data in a more concrete way. I just drew the parallel to get the gears spinning. I agree that the organized religion was crucial glue to society trough history.
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Also @MattPalmer1086 the best solution for this I have now is to have several secret keys and rotate usage. Would be nice to have some additional security boosts.
Key rotation among a set of keys only partially mitigates the issue (have to obtain more samples).
It has it's own synch problems (can you be sure which key to use next and did the server update the same as you, or did the last request not get through?).
This post on security stack exchange seems relevant.
